Essays on Arthur Miller

Throughout the course of American mythology and literature, there is a curious persistence of the concept of the American dream. From the very beginning of western influence on the continent, groups of people have constantly flocked to the land in search of a fabled life better than their own. Even among natural born citizens, there exists a belief that life can become whatever a person desires, as long as they work hard. Playwright Arthur Miller frequently wrote about and depicted this ideology. Through his play Death of a Salesman, Miller denounces the American dream as impossible and unrealistic for Continue reading...

Theater is one of the most ancient forms of art. The beginning of Western civilization, ancient Greece, lived a very important part in the development of this form, with many plays reaching classical status, like Oedipus King and the Oresteia trilogy. Aristotle, one of the most important Greek philosophers, offered six elements of drama in his work Poetics: setting, characters, theme, plot, language and music. These have served as a reference to study these types of works of art from antiquity to this day. The first three will serve as a guide for the analysis and comparison of important Continue reading...

Arthur Mills is a famous author who has capability to attract the peculiar feelings of the every reader who enjoys reading books and wish to feel author’s illustration power. The play Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller in the Aristotelian sense is a classic tragedy. It brings empty capitalism’s promises, the American dreams materialistic version and a sense of capitalism critique. It is a tragic play written by Arthur Miller. It is commonly known as the first tragedy of Modern American society. It is based on the foundations, values and moral principles of the American Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a theatrical analysis of the play ‘Death of a Salesman’, written by Arthur Miller in 1949. This analysis will present you with the look of a hypothetical producer. Therefore, it will focus on the summary of the play, the world it represents and the wider cultural background within which it was first produced. Finally, it will emphasize on all the details concerning a production set nowadays. The essay will give the overall look of the hypothetical producer, focusing on the aspects which are to be taken into consideration in Continue reading...

Religion is strict with its limitations; a matter often destroying the specific constructive liberal structures of the society. Although it is not considered detrimental, the extensive rules that religion often imposes create more harm than good to its members. With such strict commandments, the response of the people were rather common; to hide secrets, to deal with matters in a hypocritical manner, presenting themselves clean when they actually are doing something else behind the back of the church’s knowing. Among the primary characters who could be noted for such consideration of the church’s laws include John Proctor Continue reading...

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John Proctor was one of the most complex characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He has both positive and negative qualities to his personality. Primarily, Proctor is honest, dependable, and a man of solid moral. However, he is not always the pillar of morality. Perhaps most noticeably is the negative propensity he has for cheating on his wife. He is lustful after one of the young girls in the village: Abigail Williams. Eventually the two begin an affair. The affair ends before the play begins, igniting Abigail’s intense jealousy toward Proctor’s wife. It also ignites the Continue reading...

The American Dream states that basically anyone can achieve anything if they work hard enough, thus obtaining freedom and ensuring upward mobility for the next generation. Every person who is thinking about America has the American Dream stamped in their minds, thanks to mainstream media and pop culture. But, is the American Dream just a fantasy, an unfulfillable promise, a utopia for those who have lost hope and are wanting a better life for themselves?
Arthur Miller, in his 1949 play "Death of a Salesman", portrays an average American, a man called Willy Loman. Willy is depressed, recently suffered Continue reading...

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The drama, “Death of a Salesman”, written by Arthur Miller has been claimed as the “first true American tragedy.” It narrates the story of Willy, an American salesman, who lives in the myth that people are very fond of him, and he is indispensable at the organization he works for. His illusion continues through the play, and when he dies ultimately by crashing his car by himself, he still believed that his son Biff would do excellently in life. The story starts when Willy returns home from a failed sales trip, and complains to his wife Linda, that Continue reading...

The play “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles begins with Oedipus the king explaining his concern about his citizens thus: “My zeal in your behalf ye cannot doubt; Ruthless indeed were I and obdurate, If such petitioners as you I spurned” (11-15). These lines clearly establish the fact that Oedipus is a good king and looks after his kingdom, Thebes, quite well. However, this is not enough. No matter how well Oedipus governs his kingdom or how valiant he is, tragedy befalls Oedipus through what can be said as “Hamartia”. Hamartia or tragic flaw is what brings down a great Continue reading...

Did Arthur Miller Believe in the American Dream?

Essay Outline

I. Introduction
a. Arthur Miller as an author
b. His beliefs towards American Dream
II. Arthur Miller
a. His family and childhood
b. His political stance and belief in the American Dream
III. Miller’s famous plays and stories
a. All My Sons
i. How did it convey his political stance.
ii. How was the American Dream portrayed in this work
iii. How did it affect his success as an author
b. Death of a Salesman
i. How was his political stance conveyed in this play
ii. Portrayal of the American Continue reading...

Marilyn Monroe came from a very ordinary background and went on to become extraordinary. Was she really extraordinary or the people around her and the media projected her as one? In order to understand this, it is essential to understand her mind. Maybe there is a side to her that nobody has seen. She is no fiction but a real woman, who made all those movies and did get married. She is not the fantasies that people built around her. People love fantasies more than the reality. Marilyn allowed them to fantasize about something else.
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The Death of a Salesman deals with two unresolved problems; the problem of family, and the marked society. Volker Schlöndorff made Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1985) into a mini-serial for television audiences. The movie deals with the dynamics of the family system; whether it’s the relationship between father and son, or the relationship between father and daughter, and so on. In Death of Salesman, Willy Lowman, the protagonist, is seen as a man who leads a life in isolation. His life goes around in circles and has illusions that he would make it rich Continue reading...

Death of a Salesman is a play that addresses the painful conflicts within a family, showing how Americans are tackling issues regarding their national values within real means. Miller therefore depicts America as selling false myths founded around capitalist materialism, and nurtured by the postwar competitions. During this time, most American families had centered their ways of life on material ownership, often with attempts by individuals to be equal to their materialistic neighbors (Death of a Salesman).
For mastering the structure of the play, that is, to understand and interpret the script and casts he should rehearse and work Continue reading...

The death of a salesman rotates around Willy, who is the father to Biff and Happy, and a husband to Linda. It is an average family whose dreams seem to differ, and Willy develops a personal conflict in his own life. The death of a salesman is a tragic story where Willy tries hard,but he does not achieve his dreams.His needs are not met; hence, leading to his death. Willy’s life rotates around failures, and he feels a failure knows him best since nothing he tries succeeds. He feels tiered working as a salesman because his job Continue reading...

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Death of a salesman, written by Arthur Miller, is a twentieth century modern play which primarily delineates the life of the modern man in today’s contemporary world that is getting sophisticated on a daily basis in numerous facets including the advancement of technology. The fundamental aim of the play is to portray how money has turned into an obsessions to many people these days, and how the modern life of people in today’s world is determined through the quantum of his earnings, either daily or on a monthly basis. The Continue reading...

Death of a Salesman is the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Arthur Miller, it was published in 1949. The play is an American tragedy that details the life and death of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman. Note that Arthur Miller named this character “Loman” a name that literally derives from Low Man. Willy Loman lives in Brooklyn New York, where Arthur Miller was born and lived his professional life. Loman’s home life revolves around his nagging wife Linda, deadbeat son Biff, and younger son Happy. Loman fantasizes about being younger and having a young, joyful family with productive Continue reading...

Analysis of Hydrated Copper Sulphate

The above experiment was conducted to determine the amount of Copper and water present in the given sample of hydrated Copper (II) Sulphate.

Introduction

Gravimetric analysis used in this experiment refers to a set of techniques in analytical chemistry aimed at the quantitative determination of an analyte based on the mass of a given solid. In most gravimetric methods the analyte, in this case hydrated Copper Sulphate, is first converted to solid by precipitation with an appropriate reagent, Oxine in this case. The solid precipitate is then collected by filtration (precipitation). The lab scientist washes the precipitate since it is Continue reading...

Death of a salesman is a play where Willy Lowman spends most of his time on the road as a salesman. He did his job as directed, and manages to purchase mortgage from his sales. He is also trying to raise his two kids and a wife, as he struggles to attain The American Dream. A raisin in the sun portrays a few weeks of an African -American family, the Youngers in the 1950’s and live in the Southside of Chicago.
In Death of a salesman the character Willy shows money is everything, because everything that is happening Continue reading...

Introduction

Loman family is composed of four members, mother –Linda, father – Willy and two sons – Biff and Happy, each of them being the representative of social constructions. As such, Linda is the caregiver, being dedicated to the domestic sphere, loving and caring for her husband and their two sons. She sees and understands the challenges that all of them face and she behaves as the leant between all the members of the family, determined to maintain a peaceful home. Willy, on the other hand, is the family head, the one who has the responsibility of taking care of the family Continue reading...

Arthur Miller was born in the house of a Polish Jewish couple in Harlem, New York City in 1915. In his book, “Timebends: A Life,” Miller mentions that the part of Harlem he was born in was quite modern and popular, but the Great Depression had already made its way in Brooklyn by the time was grown up. Since Miller was studying in the University of Michigan at that time, he had to a variety of physical labor to pay for his education. The above mentioned book is the only autobiography that Arthur Miller has ever written, but that Continue reading...

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One of the most prolific plays of the 1950’s was The Crucible. Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem Witch Trials is a book that not only transcends time but also speaks to a wide audience. In the play the protagonist John Proctor is portrayed as a tragic hero, he makes mistakes in his comfortable life but by the end of it realizes his mistakes and dies on his path to self worth. He is his own worst enemy and is torn apart by his own guilt from the acts of lechery and Continue reading...

Introduction

For the sake of this project, I chose to analyze the following literary and nonliterary works:
- “The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy (Novel)
- Death of a Salesman, directed by Laszlo Benedek (Film)
- “Piano Man,” written and performed by Billy Joel (Music)
All three of these works relate to the ways in which we live our lives, and the necessity to be able to view our lives much more abstractly and open-mindedly – the works feature characters who are either served well or could be served well by their capacity for critical thought and self-reflection.

Objective Analysis

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When people describe an event as “tragic,” the first thing that comes to mind is that something terrible has happened to a person or people. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines tragedy as “a very bad event that causes great sadness and often involves someone's death; a very sad, unfortunate, or upsetting situation , something that causes strong feelings of sadness or regret, [or] a play, movie, etc., that is serious and has a sad ending.” In life, it is not difficult to classify particular situations as tragic, such as the ending of a young life by a drunk driver or the Continue reading...

1.0 Lab 1: Heating Value Measurements: Solid and Liquid Fuels with a Bomb Calorimeter
1.1 Introduction
Measurements of heating values can be derived for both solid and liquid combustible fuels using an Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter. The calorimeter measures heat. Heat is not the same thing as temperature. The heat of combustion is called the calorific value. The calorific value is “:the number of heat units liberated by a unit mass of a sample when burned with oxygen in an enclosure of constant volume” (Introduction 2007). The experiment uses the 6100 Bomb Calorimeter. The definition of calorific value in a Continue reading...

Family, Identity and the “American Dream” in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller's 1949 play, Death of a Salesman tackles the issues of identity, family dynamics and the pursuit of the “American Dream” using the Loman family as a model to illustrate these concepts. The play starts with Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, returning from a botched business trip. Willy expresses disgust towards his oldest son, Biff, who has failed to do anything substantial with his life. Biff and his younger brother Happy take their father out to dinner where Biff has a flashback to the time he visited his father in Boston and discovered Willy was having an affair Continue reading...

Over the years, the definition of tragedy has undergone considerable evolution. According to Aristotle, a tragic play can exist without characters but it cannot exist without a plot (Poetics), however, this is not agreeable from a modern standpoint. By today’s standards, both the characters and the plot are vital aspects to a meaningful tragic play. On the other hand, Arthur Miller is more focused on the “tragic hero,” exposing the man behind the tragic mask rather than the contents of the plot itself. His idea of depicting a tragic hero as a common man is more up to Continue reading...

Summary

The article “Death of a Salesman” was co-authored by Caywood Clarke and Gene R. Laczniak in 1986. Trade press has mainly been focused to high selling pressure and switch promotions that encourage sales. However, empirical efforts have been minimal. It has even been difficult for researchers to define various selling practices that may be termed as unethical. Ethical issues have been renowned as the main causes of conflicts among salespeople.
This article aims at understanding as well as evaluating various prepositions about ethical aspects for personal selling which deserves further reflection and investigation for proper understanding. There are numerous Continue reading...

This essay aims at comparing and contrasting the theme of fantasy and wishful thinking as presented in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and also in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie (1945). Both playwrights have intensively used characters who resort into habits of escapism into fantasy and wishful thinking to free themselves from their miserable existence. The main sources of their predicaments are their consistent failures in achieving their dreams, little interaction and communication with family members coupled with personal insecurities. Due to these facts, they all have a common problem which is frustration and boredom. Continue reading...

Organization

Arthur miller's award winning play death of a salesman where Willy loman is the salesman driven by the emerging values of post war capitalism and materialism and wanted his sons to adopt the same. The conflict arises when his sons cannot do the profit or money-making. The play becomes of what was popularly known to be the American dream. This paper aims to analyze this over reaching theme that explicitly critiques. The paper also aims how the play impacted the American public considering it was published when capitalism was booming. It is important to understand how the people responded Continue reading...

Introduction

The play, Death of a salesman is one of the plays authored by Miller. It gives a concept that is gathered from the exploration of the world as from the America after the war. It tries to assess the result of this war to the American new found prosperity on men. Ideally, men in the 1950s commence having a feeling of pressure that resulted from their family responsibilities. Besides the pressure to provide basic necessities but also to deliver the members of one’s family with luxurious items that are believed to be essential to the families. The idea Continue reading...

Arthur Miller’s iconic play Death of a Salesman is rife with symbolism, rich characters that welcome in-depth study and debate, relationships between different characters that warrant close examination and themes and motives that range from statements about the American Dream and socioeconomics to the importance of place, feminism, gender roles and familial relationships. One of the most prominent themes in Death of a Salesman is that of betrayal. Arthur Miller thoroughly and effectively examines betrayal and the different forms it can take. Betrayal and abandonment, a form of a betrayal, characterize nearly all of the significant relationships in Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the answers to the following questions on how lighting can and ought to be applied on the theatrical performance of the play ‘Death of a Salesman’ by Arthur Miller.

1-Explain what type of lighting you would have for several different scenes?

It is common knowledge that lighting contributes to the message a play’s scene puts across to its audience since it creates the atmosphere of the set environment within which the play’s scenes are to be performed. The play ‘Death of a Salesman’ holds its own internal light since it leads its audience to self –knowledge shedding light through Continue reading...

Death of a Salesman, written by American playwright Arthur Miller, is a play that revolves around the life and times of Willy Loman. After failing to attain his goals in life, Willy degenerates into a state of denial and frustration. For instance, he is angry with his sons, Biff and Happy, because they have not amounted to anything. It is at this point that the two boys hatch a plan to pacify their father. Biff would go back to his former employer and make a business proposal. However, the plan does not materialize because the employer can no longer Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis of ‘Arthur Miller’s Play ‘Crucible’. The analysis of this play is to present you with a portrait of the historical context in which the play was written as well as the meaning underlying its plot in relation to its author’s profile.
Arthur Miller is an author whose plays have been received with great enthusiasm on behalf of his readers / audience. It is commonly acknowledged that Miller’s plays have been talking to the hearts of their audience since they seem to depict through their Continue reading...

Introduction

Arthur Miller believes that a common person is like apt subject for tragedy in its highest sense a king could be. On the face of a modern psychiatry, the tragedies are obvious. The analysis of such tragedies is upon formulations such as Orestes and Oedipus complexes. For instance, the complexes might have been formulated by the royal beings but their effect applies to all people in the same emotional situations. For several reasons humanity is held below tragedies and tragedies above them. Former founder president of independent South Africa lived a tragic life under the colonial rule that brought Continue reading...

The stories of Antigone, Oedipus. Odysseus, Richard III and Othello all still resonate loudly within modern times. All of these characters had significant flaws that took their greatness and threatened to undo it – and often did undo it when circumstances refused to change. The pride of Antigone was both her strength and her demise; the boldness of Oedipus both brought him the throne in Thebes and sealed his doom. The cleverness of Odysseus brought him through trial after trial, but it also blinded him from fact of his dependence. Richard III’s acumen on the battlefield and in the Continue reading...

Persecution has been a round for sometime and can be traced historically from the time of Jesus to the present time. Christians were persecuted for their faith in the hands of the Jews. Many Christians have been persecuted in history for their allegiance to Christ and forced to denounce Christ and others have been persecuted for failing to follow the laws of the land. The act of persecution is on the basis of religion, gender, race, differing beliefs and sex orientation (Davis 220). Persecution is a cruel and inhumane act that should not be supported since people are tortured Continue reading...

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois
This book by W.E.B. Du Bois was first published in 1935. It takes a deeper depth in examining Reconstruction of the south in the Civil War of America. It delves more on the economic front. The most significant argument in the text is basically that black and white workers were divided on racial grounds after the civil war (Du and Edward 12). This had an unfortunate result. The white class which had a lot of property took advantage of them since the laborers could not stand against them. This, according to DU Bois, Continue reading...

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Compare and Contrast the characters of Catherine and Latifa
This essay aims at evaluating the similarities and differences between the characters of Latifa of the novel “My Forbidden Face” and Catherine of “A View from the Bridge”, a play written by Arthur Miller. Catherine is the niece of the tragic protagonist Eddie Carbone, who harbors a lust for her, and tries to keep her away from other male suitors. They are an Italian American family living in the Red Hook community of New York of the 1950s, which is known for its Italian immigrants.
Marco and Rodolpho, who are Continue reading...

Introduction

The Crucible is a historical motion picture released in 1996 and adapted from a play by Arthur Miller. The plot of the film is based on real events and these are the Salem Witch Trials which took place in 1692. Salem is a religious Puritan village located in modern day Massachusetts. The infamous Salem Witchcraft Trials occurred in 1692 after several girls fell victim to hallucinations and seizures. During this period, religion extremity in the lives of the local people caused them to attribute surprising activities to the cohorts of the devil, for example witches. This movie screenplay is Continue reading...