Mumford & Sons

Willy and his two sons are in the Loman House when Bernard, the son of Willy’s friend, Charley, enters. Bernard warns Biff that he is about to flunk math and the he won’t be able to graduate if that happens. This angers Willy and he launches into a speech to his boys about how “the man who makes an appearance in the business world,...is the man who gets ahead”. Willy values appearance over any other tangible achievements (i.e. grades in school) and instills this belief in his sons. He praises…

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For example, the character Willy Loman, when he discusses his American dreams to his sons, Biff and Happy. In ‘Death of a Salesman’ while reassuring Happy, Biff and himself, Willy claims that he is going to be “Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Uncle Charley is not-liked. He’s liked, but he’s not-well liked” (Miller 1277). Even though…

For Willy, his adventurer / explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but the character of Ben is fantastical and the achievements of Dave are idealised and exaggerated. Using these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the…

All My Sons by Arthur Miller has been argued by many to be a modern tragedy while others claim that his play, All My Sons, cannot be considered a tragedy. However, to truly debate if Miller was able to created a modern tragedy, one must first know what a tragedy is. “Tragedy”, as first coined by Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher, is defined as a play that portrays the fall of a good character because of a catastrophic mistake by the protagonist. A true tragedy must also evoke pity and fear…

In the third dream, he puts the belief into his sons that are Biff and Happy. Then, he wants his sons to help himself achieve his desire through the American Dream like Ben. According to the play, Willy Loman says about Ben: “That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate” which shows he really respects Ben and wants…

In "Quitters,Inc." by Stephen King's short story follows the life of an everyday man, Dick Morrison and how his life will be turn upside down with his choice of stop smoking and the results are terrifying. Stephen King's most powerful use of foreshadowing is the card where both cards appear in the beginning of the story and the end of the story. In Stephen King's short story smoking is a symbole of depression." Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space…

Pride, a simple word, yet a variety of meanings to different people. Pride seems to encompass our daily lives, impacting our decisions. For many pride runs their lives because they care too much about how others view them, instead of what’s right. Correspondingly, with this idea, Sophocles asserts that the only crime is pride and that we must stop our wrong and fix it. This idea by Sophocles is valid due to the fact that for various people pride runs their life and influences their decisions.…

Arthur miller was born in the year 1915 in Harlem, New York. His father owned a coat manufacturing business but unfortunately the business didn’t last and lost almost everything in 1929. And because of this he and his family had to move to Flatbush, Brooklyn. He attended the University of Michigan. During his time in college he won the school’s Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain. After this he moved back East to pursue his career as a playwright. And soon after that he married…

Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and All American Boys by Jason Reynolds are connected by the theme and moral lessons each novel puts forward. Just Mercy, is written from the viewpoint of Mr. Stevenson as he goes through many people's cases trying to give them the justice they deserve. All American Boys is the story of a young teenage boy who is beaten up by a cop because it is believed he is stealing a bag of chips. Although the storylines of these two stories…