Sons and Lovers

religious perspective. The theme could simply be “Grace”. Tackach compared “Sonny Blues” to the parable of “Prodigal Son”. The parable is about two brothers. The older son stayed home with his father, on the straight and narrow path while the younger son chose riotous living on the broad road that leads to destruction. The narrator represents the older son and Sonny, of course, is the prodigal son (Tackach 112). It’s ironic that the narrator has a daughter named Grace. From a religious aspect,…

Hells Angels Hells Angels a motorcycle club founded on March 17,1948 in Fontana/San Bernardino by a man name Sonny Barger.The name "Hell's Angels" was inspired by the typical naming of American squadrons, or other fighting groups, with a fierce, death-defying title in World Wars I and II. They weren't the only club in the 1940’s but they're the only club still dgoing on today. From the 60’s, Hells Angels spread out to the east coast of the USA and later to the midwest. On July 1969…

Death of a Salesman is a very powerful play that discusses not only the slow demise of Willy Loman, the aging salesman with two unsuccessful sons, but also highlights the different views that people can have regarding success. Willy Loman, the father of Biff Loman and brother of Ben, is a salesman who has dedicated his life to building up his reputation. His son Biff has spent much of his life trying to find a job he truly loves to do, but has been mostly unsuccessful. However, his late…

that no one can steal”-Anonymous. In Arthur Miller’s play All my Sons shows that it is difficult to accept the death of a loved one. During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Devver ran a machine shop which made airplane parts Devver was sent to prison because the firm sent out defective parts causing deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the actions.…

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…