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Death Of A Salesman
Words: 1201 / Pages: 5 .... fact he has lived his life in vain, never achieving nor succeeding but remaining a shadow of his ambition. It is this sudden insight that urges him into a fantasy, afraid to face the future. It is only through Willy’s failure as a salesman that his innate desire for the outdoors is exposed. At the end of the play, Charley mentions, "… He was a happy man with a batch of cement … so wonderful with his hands … he had the wrong dreams, all wrong.". It has been often said that the play emphasize the path not taken may have been the right one, still Willy holds the inability to see who and what he is. Miller has created Willy’s wife Lind .....
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The Children Left Behind
Words: 2093 / Pages: 8 .... he was beat up, called names, and denied the right to attend school. Joe remembers one time
“ ‘Walking home late at night from the movies, when a bunch of
kids hiding behind bushes jumped out and beat him up’”… “The
parents of these children do nothing about this torment because
they assume his mother was a prostitute, so they feel he
deserves it” (DeBonis 60-61).
Joe did attend school up until the fourth grade, at which time his family moved from Saigon to Long Thanh, he was denied the right to attend. He was told, “No, you can’t go, you don’t have any paper work plus you’re ‘My Lai’ you’re half-American” .....
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Trifles And Suppressed Desires
Words: 1915 / Pages: 7 .... the impression of a lonely household with little attention having been paid to cleaning up either recently or ever.
Mrs. Wright is placed in the kitchen in her rocking chair but does not speak during the production. She gives off much information by her expressions used throughout the play. I have read that in the original transcript of the play, the key characters never appear on stage. I believe seeing her gives a major impact to the setting. It helps the audience see the people surrounding the mystery. Even though she does not utter a word, her expressions help tell the story.
The characters enter the room from the outside and are bundled .....
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Death Of A Salesman 4
Words: 1035 / Pages: 4 .... encounters Biff after arriving home. The conversation between Willy and Linda reflects Willy's disappointment in Biff and what he has become, which is, for the most part, a bum. After failing to deal adequately with his feelings, he escapes into a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a .....
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A Bintel Brief
Words: 847 / Pages: 4 .... the book itself.
The letters of the Bintel Brief reveal that immigration became a cultural process. When the Jewish immigrants came to the U.S. there culture had to be changed to adapt to the Americans. They shaved their beards and ate non-kosher foods, they slowly had to separate themselves from there homeland. They had to blend in with there surroundings to get a job or even to make friends. In one of the letters, a young Jewish woman would go to work each day knowing that she would be harassed when she arrived. One of her fellow co-workers said the all Galician Jews should be dead. With comments like that, I myself would try to hide the fac .....
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Ceasar Charater Analysis
Words: 1346 / Pages: 5 .... conspiracy. He feels that even though the men are honorable, that they have butchered a man that could have been reasoned with and brought out of what it was he did wrong. What Antony says: "Let each man render me his bloody hand…My credit now stands on such slippery ground that one of two bad ways you must conceit me…." Pg. 580 lines 184-194 He leads the conspirators on to trust him, when in fact, he wants to be able to speak to the mob. He uses a vicious pun so that he knows what he is talking about, but the conspirators think that he is simply talking about the blood on the ground being slippery. Caesar- What Caesar says: "E .....
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The Cask Of The Amontillado - Revenge
Words: 447 / Pages: 2 .... craving for the wine has led him to his doom. "The Cask of Amontillado" is about one man's family revenge on another family.
In structure, there can be no doubt, that both Montresor's plan of revenge and Poe's story are carefully crafted to create the desired effect. Poe writes this story from the perspective of Montresor who vows revenge against Fortunato in an effort to support his time-honored family motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit" or "No one assails me with impunity." (No one can attack me without being punished.) Poe does not intend for the reader to sympathize with Montresor because Fortunato has wronged him, but rather to judge him .....
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Creon As Antigones Tragic Figu
Words: 1115 / Pages: 5 .... protest:
Antigone: It was not Zeus who published this decree, / Nor have the Powers who
rule among the dead / Imposed such laws as this upon mankind; Nor could I think that a decree of yours - / A man - could override the laws of Heaven. (ll. 450-454)
Creon ignores the insight of her comment and likens Antigone to nothing more than a wild horse and a slave. (ll. 477-479) By disregarding her observation, he shows us that he truly does believe his word can refute that of the gods. He is set in his belief that his authority overrides the importance of spiritual tradition and divine order.
The second passionate challenge to CreonR .....
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The Gambles In Life
Words: 534 / Pages: 2 .... this person
succeeds, he will pass the test; nevertheless if this person gets caught ,
he will receive a zero on the test.
When these school age children become dating age, many will take
also take gambles. A male will talk a gamble by asking a female for a date.
This male is wandering will this lovely female will say "yes," or "no." If
the female says "yes," He has won the gamble; although the male has lost
the gamble is the female says "no."
As life progresses, this child continues to gamble. When this
person gets old enough to obtain a driver's license, he will continue to
take chances. Some people will drive very recklessly by speeding,
disobe .....
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Lord Byron's "Darkness": The Faithful But Fated Dog
Words: 792 / Pages: 3 .... With these words an atmosphere of foreboding is created and
heightened all the more by its contrast with the initial feeling. From
this point forward, darkness and fear reign supreme. Such words as
"wander", "rayless", and "pathless" are used to describe the stars and
create a sense of despair and hopelessness. The word "extinguished" is
used multiple times in describing both the sun and later for the loss of
fire. Men first give "selfish prayer" and later cast their eyes downward
with "curses". Both of these words portray the close ties to a religious
setting or event. The most obvious of the religious ties is line 46 in
which, "The meager b .....
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