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Willy Loman American Dream
775 wordsAuthors have been known to use the American Dream as part of a theme in many of their works. The American Dream is sought out to be the full pursuit of happiness that one is capable of obtaining. It consists of an individual dream based on determination, labor, and well defined rules of behavior. To find the American Dream, one must seize the moment to acquire greatness. In Arthur Millers play Death of a Salesman, he portrays Willy Loman as the seeker of the American Dream. Willy has trouble fin...
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Death Of A Salesman Achieve The American Dream
889 wordsDeath of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a play depicting one man, Willy Loman, in his attempt to achieve the American Dream while living amongst his wife and children. Throughout the play the reader is introduced to many characters, some who are dynamic and some who are static. In any good literal work there is a balance of both of these types of characters, and Death of a Salesman is no exception that Willy Loman, his wife Linda, and their two children, Biff and Happy, create these characteri...
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Refuses To Fight Death Of Patroclus Achilles
432 wordsHow does Achilles change? Why does the change take place? Which personality is the true Achilles? Initially, Achilles is selfish and petty. He refuses to fight in the war because Agamemnon takes Briseis. His selfishness causes the death of many Argives. Without the strength and power of Achilles, no other Greek warrior is able to repel the powerful Hector. Achilles understands this and refuses to fight unless the Greeks recognize him as the supreme commander. When Agamemnon offers Achilles a ple...
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Guy Montag Seventeen Year
1,160 wordsWritten By Ray Bradbury "Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. Never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do. Guy Montag was not the same person at both the beginning and ...
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Feminine Qualities Elisa Allen
1,130 wordsJohn Steinbeck, in his short story "The Chrysanthemums" depicts the trials of a woman attempting to gain power in a man's world. Elisa Allen tries to define the boundaries of her role as a woman in such a closed society. While her environment is portrayed as a tool for social repression, it is through nature in her garden where Elisa gains and shows off her power. As the story progresses, Elisa has trouble extending this power outside of the fence that surrounds her garden. Elisa learns but does...
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From Egoism To Humility In Shakespeare King Lear
1,245 wordsIn Shakespeare's King Lear, Shakespeare paints Lear's egotistic attitude, both of which made his life tormented and full of misery. Because of his poor judgement and excessive pride, he loses not only the kingdom that he takes pride in but most importantly, the daughter that loves him the most. However, as the play progresses, Lear journeys from egoism to humility and death. Lear is a very egotistic man. In the beginning, the foolish king (who out of whim) issues a challenge to his children to w...
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Fiend Like Queen Macbeth And Lady Macbeth
1,252 words... now fighting for what he is, the king. By the end of the play, Macbeth is tired of living. This is caused by his struggle to stay king and to get rid of his threats, giving in to all the pressure: "I'gin to be away of the sun. " As he prepares to defend the castle, he again looks to the witches for spiritual support, hoping that their prophesies are at all true because if they are not he will lose everything he had gained. Once Macbeth and Macduff come to face each other, Macbeth does not fe...
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Father In Law Golden Fleece
1,199 wordsGreek audiences would have known the story of the ill-fated marriage between Jason, hero of the Golden Fleece, and Medea, barbarian witch and princess of Colchis. The modern reader, to fully understand the events of Medea, needs to be familiar with the legends and myths on which the play is based. Medea was of a people at the far edge of the Black Sea; for the Greeks of Euripides' time, this was the edge of the known world. She was a powerful sorceress, princess of Colchis, and a granddaughter o...
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Reb Saunders Chaim Potok
709 wordsThe Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is a book about friendship between two boys from vastly different religious Jewish backgrounds. Their initial distrust and hatred for each other, because of their different backgrounds, gives way to understanding, and develops into a deep friendship. Each character grew up in a tight community. Their deep study of their traditions has led them to be ignorant of the outside world. Daniel Saunders is the son of Rabbi Reb Saunders and the protagonist of the novel. He is ...
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Midsummer Night Dream Hand In Marriage
1,070 wordsThroughout both Much Ado About Nothing and Midsummer's Night Dream, much jealousy is demonstrated. Not only do Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing, and Oberon in Midsummer's Night Dream become jealous with the woman they love, but they actually will succumb to revenge, embarrassment and rage to try to over come their jealously. Even though by the ending of both of the plays both characters get what they want, they have a constant battle with jealously to get there. Claudio, a very highly decorate...
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Water For Chocolate Mama Elena
1,073 wordsAn evil stepmother, two wicked stepsisters a kind girl whisked away by the handsome prince. Once upon a time and happily ever after. Can't be wrapped up neatly into 4 pages. More complex plots, still lead to that same happy ending. Higgins, Mama Elena, and the stepmother all serve as obstacles between their respective lead heroines and happiness. Transform to overcome Each lead heroine battles her tyrant in a different way, but ultimately all three women overcome the obstacle and secure their ha...
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Hamlet And Horatio Rosencrantz And Guildenstern
1,365 words... s and Gertrude follow, fearing this will once again send him into a rage. Act 5 Scene 1: Two gravediggers are discussing a person who is to be buried that day. The discussion centers around whether or not the person, a woman, should be buried because there is a suspicion that she committed suicide, an offense which is against the church. They agree that it appears people of a certain station in life are granted more privileges than more common folk. They discuss other items and the first gra...
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Past Experiences Social Construct
2,454 wordsIncompetent Texts in Camus, Sartre, and Celine The Stranger, by Albert Camus, Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Death on the Installment Plan, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, all contrast themselves with internal texts that fail to represent the world competently. The Stranger includes the prosecutors narrative of the murders as an incompetent text by refusing to support the motives he assigns. It contrasts itself with the prosecutors narrative in view of the excessive language of the prosecutor versu...
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Tragic Hero Dramatic Irony
541 wordsOedipus Rex, by the Greek playwright Sophocles, is, without a doubt, one of the greatest examples of dramatic irony. There are many instances where the audience knows so much more than the main characters, and Sophocles uses irony to point to Oedipus as Laius murderer as well. Additionally, Oedipus is most definitely a tragic hero-he had a tragic flaw, namely that he was relentless and often rash in his search for the truth about Laius death and his killer; this ultimately lead to Oedipus own de...
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Rose For Emily Miss Emily
1,452 wordsThe year is 1852, Emily Grierson has just been born into the small town of Jefferson. A town she will soon discover has distinct hierarchical differences and social classes that are to be followed by everyone in her community. However this same community and the values which it holds will eventually be a key factor in determining Miss Emily's madness. A Rose for Emily, tells the story of a woman who fails to live up to her high reputation and fitting in a community where almost everyone knows ea...
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Spare His Life Beliefs And Convictions Deerslayer
327 wordsUnwavering Character James Fenimore Copper presents Deerslayer as a man of integrity, virtue, and honor. He is a warrior who lives by his word. Even if the situation places his life in jeopardy, he refuses to abandon what he believes in and what he says he will do. Deerslayer's greatest display of character and honor is seen when he refuses to compromise his standards even though it threatens his life. After saving Hist from the Hurons, Deerslayer was taken captive by them. The Hurons respected ...
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Doesnt Care Feel Person
358 wordsThe difference between a person who gives in to hardship and one who refuses to give in are different because one cares about the world and the other doesnt. I feel that anyone who acts like he or she cant help another person out shouldn t be on this earth. The only way that the world is going to work is by everyone coming together and helping each other out. The person that gives into hardship, is a loyal well respected person. I feel that my family gives into hardship, because we help the chur...
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Captain Vere Billy Budd
2,903 wordsTo form simply one opinion or show merely one aspect of this story is naive, rude, and closed minded. How may one stick to one deli mea, moral questioning, or out-look on a book that jumps from such cases like frogs on lily pads? Just as Melville has done, I shall attempt to arrange my perception of Billy Budd, in a similar fashion. That is, through an unorthodox practice (that is; jumping from pt. to point), of writing an essay I shall constantly change and directions and goals of what it is I ...
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Greek Myth Objective Reality
1,611 wordsSubjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Subjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a world of subjective reality. Carson explores the relationship between subject and object through a reworking of an original Greek myth. The original myth is of Herakles, whos tenth labor was to kill Geryon, a red winged monster who lived on an island, and steal his cattle. Carson takes the insignificant character of Geryon and creates a story based...
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Middle Aged Man Place In Society
2,521 wordsFinding one? s place in society is a major dilemma many people face every day. Once people find their place in society they understand who they are, what is expected by them and what their roles are. Once a person has found their place in society they understand their life and which direction it is going. The main characters are portrayed as two different individuals with very different lives who have only one thing in common- their inability to find their proper place in society. Brian Moore, a...
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