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    The majority of episodes contain Pipers flashbacks‚ Piper Chapman comes from a upper-class white family. Her parents believe in money‚ and having a clean image to the world. Piper isn’t into that lifestyle though. She’s reckless and a little self-destructive. During the beginning of the season it’s shown that Piper met Alex and instantly fell in love with her. Piper started to become clingy and attached‚ and got involved in the drug smuggling too. The drug cartel started taking advantage of Piper

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    himself. He is conflicted if he really caused the incident or if it was truly an accident. The devices used in this story to reflect that Gene has an inner conflict are‚ flashbacks‚ foreshadowing‚ and symbolism. One of the devices used in the book to show Gene has an inner conflict is flashbacks. The author shows flashbacks through Gene’s eyes which shows he has

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    Death of a Salesman- EssayIn Death of Salesman‚ the conflicts that the characters face through out in the play‚ can be interpreted as reflections of the problems in America ’s society today. The majority‚ if not all of these problems can be traced back to Willy Loman as the source. Willy Loman ’s longing to be successful (either actually through himself or through his sons) was the origin of all the other problems‚ and was the reason he could not control himself and he ruined his life and his family

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    Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" reflects the numerous issues post-war United States was dealing with during the late 1940’s when it was written. Death of a Salesman was written and published in 1949‚ when the United States was booming with new economic capabilities and new found power‚ resulting in a golden age regardless of the growing tensions of the threat of communist invasion. Racial violence and the escalating issues regarding the deluded American dream that was turning out to be quite

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    Thomas Foster’s book‚ How to Read Literature like a Professor‚ is perfect for trying to analyze Arthur Miller’s Play‚ Death of a Salesman. This play has many layers that are difficult to catch on a first reading/watching. In essence‚ the play tells the story of Willy Loman‚ a salesman who struggles with the american dream and its ideals. The chapters in Foster’s book on violence‚ symbolism‚ and setting all are helpful for understanding the play. The violence helps us understand the themes‚ the symbols

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    To what extent can Willy Loman be considered a tragic hero according to Aristotle’s rules? Arthur Miller presents his play ‘Death of a Salesman’ in the ancient form of a tragedy. Aristotle has defined his idea of the ‘perfect’ tragedy in his text‚ ‘Poetics’ (350 BC).Here he suggests that the protagonist must fall from an elevated social standing as a result of a “fatal flaw” within the character; the fall from the main character creates resolution to the play which is seen as just; finally‚ Aristotle

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    In Deaths of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman is a salesmen who is trying to achieve the American Dream just like everyone else in the world. In his head he believes to be this well liked and huge successful salesmen. In reality he is more of a self-conscious man who tries to live his fantasy he has in his head while being deceitful to not only himself but his own family as well. Throughout Death of a Salesman‚ Willy has several slogans that he attempts to live his life by. One of the main slogans we here

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    D Salinger and ‘Death of a Salesman’ by Arthur Miller are both texts that were written throughout this time of social‚ cultural‚ spiritual and economic metamorphosis. ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ through the portrayal of Holden Caulfield‚ explores an individual’s tumultuous tale throughout city living and teenage years of post WW2 America‚ hoping to find recognition‚ companionship and purpose‚ but falling short of their expectations of themselves. Likewise in ‘Death of a Salesman’‚ Willy Loman is

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    Hope of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman The American Dream is something every American family strives to achieve some families push too hard to get to the place where they feel that they have achieved this dream; this is the case in the life of the Lomen family. The Lomen’s are the typical American family in the 1940’s. Willy and his wife Linda are a middle class family with two sons named Biff and Happy. Willy is an ageing traveling salesman that is struggling to accept

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    stuck becoming something they don’t like or simply aren’t good at. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a son named Hamlet is trying to avenge his father’s death who was killed by his own brother who marries his wife. The father of Hamlet is old Hamlet who comes back as a ghost demanding his son to kill his uncle but to leave his mother alone.In Miller’s The Death of a Salesman the father Willy wants his oldest son Biff to become

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