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    Masculinity In Death Of A Salesman And August Wilson’s Fences In both plays‚ a Salesman and Fences‚ the masculinity concept undergoes a hard rethinking. The key characters show before us the men‚ who are not doing well with their feelings about “provide-family-with-everything-needed” as well about their true role in the lives of the close ones. Because of changed masculinity for the wrong‚ the family relations appeared to be mixed from down to up. Willie Lohmen is aged Salesman‚ who is no longer

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    Comparing & Contrast Fresh Foods instead of canned food Eating is what us humans would love to do we eat maximum three times a day. We live in a world on where we have a variety of foods and we are responsible of what we eat. We make the decision on eating certain types of foods and we know how it would affect our body. I’m compare and contrast the differences between eating fresh food instead of canned foods. These are the main differences are flavor‚ health benefits‚ and cost. The difference

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    by Gerald Nachman. In the complex and often very materialistic world we live in‚ the question of how to measure success and self worth is certainly a relevant one. This is the very question Authur Miller addresses in his 1949 play‚ Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman follows the character Willy Loman‚ whom many would argue has all the wrong dreams. As he slowly starts to lose his mind in a materialistic world‚ it becomes clear that the only thing he is really concerned about is keeping up with

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    One of the main themes in the play Death of a Salesman is the American Dream. The philosophy of the American Dream originated in the early twentieth century when many immigrants came to America in search of economic opportunities and a better life. The protagonist‚ Willy thinks that to achieve the American Dream‚ one needs to be likeable and have a good personality. In reality‚ the keys to success in America are hard work and diligence. Willy however‚ fails to see this‚ thus leading him up to fail

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    Clarissa Caplinger Compare and contrast: Oskar’s personality In the novel‚ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The book’s narrator‚ a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell   whose father (Thomas Schell) dies from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001. Oskar then copes with his father missing from his life by trying to find the owner of a key he found in

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    Character development is a crucial part of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ and while there are many captivating characters‚ one that stands out is Bernard‚ a scholarly boy who is the son of Willy’s two boys. Bernad is unique due to the way his personality and characteristics are very similar during the present and the flashbacks in the play. When Bernard is introduced‚ he is brazen as a hard-working intellectual that is pushing Biff to study for his test. Not only is he smart‚ but he also

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    without feeling like what he did mattered. Part 2- 2. In the 1950’s after World War II‚ many Americans had this vision of an ideal America and the pursuit of happiness. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman discusses Willy Loman’s need spent his entire adult life trying to be well liked and a successful salesman and the outcome of the romanticized fantasy of the American Dream. His quest for the American Dream lead to his failure because throughout his life‚ he pursued the illusion of the American

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    actually were quite different. The Roman army‚ for one‚ was a more experienced and privileged group of men who held higher ranks in the class system. These men‚ along with the senate also played a vital role in the picking of an emperor and maintained a great deal of loyalty to him. The senate was typically the center of power for the Roman Empire‚ anyway. In the Han dynasty‚ however‚ the ruler was hereditary and he had to appeal‚ persuade‚ and even threaten to achieve agreement with him. The military was

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    how he could have killed himself when they were so close to paying off all of their bills. Biff recalls that Willy seemed happier working on the house than he did as a salesman. He states that Willy had all the wrong dreams and that he didn’t know who he was in the way that Biff now knows who he is. Charley replies that a salesman has to dream or he is lost‚ and he explains the salesman’s undaunted optimism in the face of certain defeat as a function of his irrepressible dreams of selling himself

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    14 Pall Mart Belgravia London SW10 Pier 4 Hickson Road Walsh Bay NSW 2000 I write to you to propose the production of Arthur Miller’s classic “Death of a Salesman.” As the title suggests‚ the book is about the death of a salesman named Willy Loman. However‚ through my production‚ it is not the inevitable ending that will be remembered by the audience. It will be the processes that led to Willy’s conflicted mind that will resonate in the audience’s mind. The underlying values of blind

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