The play begins on a Monday evening at the Loman family home in Brooklyn After some light changes on stage and ambient flute music the first instance of a motif connected to Willy Lomans faint memory of his father who was once a flute maker and salesman Willy a sixty three year old traveling salesman returns home early from a trip apparently exhausted His wife Linda gets out of bed to greet him She asks if he had an automobile accident since he once drove off a bridge into a river Irritated he
Willys Misery Death of a Salesman by Arthur miller is a short story about the tragedy of a family in the 1940s Willy Loman is a salesman who lives in New York he worked by traveling around to make sales for a company but is very unsuccessful and doesnt like his job Willy has a two sons Biff Loman a thirty four year old man with no future ahead of him and failed to make a career as a football player because he failed a math class and Happy Loman doesnt really contribute with Biff and Willys conf
Death of a Salesman I believe that the meaning of the title Death of a Salesman makes it pretty obvious that Willy Loman is going to die at the end of the play After reading the play you realize that the Death of a Salesman was much more than about his death it was about his failure in his career and his betrayal to his family Willy Loman has a habit of hiding the truth about the success in his career and doing so he tends to insult everyone elses career and suggests that everyone should follow
Truth and Happiness Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World believed that society was not all that it seemed He believed there were hidden truths that if manipulated the wrong way could very well lead to an outlandish social transformation In Brave New World Huxley creates a society in which all the members are sheltered from truth and knowledge in order to ensure their happiness By using ignorance soma and sex Huxley expresses the idea that true happiness cannot coexist with knowledge and trut
A Variety of Love Throughout The Millers Tale Chaucer is exploring a variety of attitudes towards love There is the idealized and fashionable love of court romance an erotic love and there is superficial or conditional love and the devine unconditional love or love of God which is typically that from a devoted husband These mixed together gives an idea of love in The Millers Tale Three types of love are displayed for the same woman because of the way John the carpenter and husband Nicholas the
In John Knowles book A Separate Peace he communicates how the war was taking its toll on him He uses the characters in a complicated plot to show the destructive forces of war The characters Gene and Finny are the opposing forces in a struggle between the reality of war World War II and a separate peace A peace away from the real war and the awful things that come from it Through their relationship which is a struggle on both sides Knowles establishes the reality of war through a relationship G
Akaky Akakyevitch Bashmatchkin is the protagonist in the short story titled The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol His first name was the same as his fathers his middle names means son of Akaky and his last name was somehow derived from the word shoe His father was a copy clerk and now Akaky is a copier by profession and so as in his name he was meant to be a copy of his father meant to walk in his fathers shoes This goes with theme of the story which is copying or imitation This storys setting is in th
Let us further suppose that our writer is Canadian and that they wish to set their drama or poem in Canada Lets now throw caution to the winds and imagine they want to use real historical material Now they have problems These problems are connected with the pattern of Canadian history and the related and even resultant patterns of the Canadian psyche That is their subject will depend on what kinds of figures are made available to them by their countrys history and their approach to their subjec
An Inspector Calls Who is the most to blame for the death of Eva Smith A short way into the start of the story an inspector calls in on the Birling family to question them about some recent events concerning a girl called Eva Smith It turns out that she had recently committed suicide by drinking some disinfectant As the story moves on the inspector finds that all the family members Mr B Mrs B Sheila Eric and Gerald all had some responsibility in her death It is because of this that it is diffic
A quest myth is format for a story in which a man many times accompanied by an assistant goes on a dangerous journey to fight for a trophy This trophy is something that they bring back such as gold swords armor or many times safety for the people The prize is not just for the heros own personal gain or glory but also for other people around them The structure of a quest myth is underlying in all stories from the earliest Beowulf to the more recent In Beowulf the protagonist must go through seve