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    Archetype Death of a Sales Man SITUATIONAL ARCHETYPES The Journey - Willy must go and discover job opportunities to restore fertility into his house hold‚ he also descends into a mental‚ the flashbacks‚ and real hell‚ being fired‚ in order to discover his faults. The Fall - Willy was once a very successful salesman‚ his children looked up to him and even had a woman on the side. Just like any hero‚ Willy is soon "expelled" from his paradise‚ such as being fired. Unhealable Wound - Willy’s ability

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    CONVENTIONS - Naturalism (use of imagery of natural scenery‚ heavy description and sensory imagery) - Melancholic tone - Natural Supernaturalism and reference to religion - Medievalism - Female ‘stunners’ - Dramatisation - Moral stories - Religious symbols and illusions - Realism - Literary subjects- telling a story Macbeth: “That his virtues will plead like angels…” “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” “Ourself will mingle with society and play the humble host…”

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    In ‘Death of a Salesman’ written by Arthur Miller‚ Bernard is shown as a tremendously memorable character. Throughout the play‚ his contradictions to Biff‚ poor judgments of him and his parent- like personality are well presented. By using the character‚ Miller tries to convey the moral messages and develops an attention grabbing plot First‚ Bernard’s contradictory character compared to Biff‚ makes him memorable. Bernard is literally everything that Biff is not. Biff is a high school football

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    challenges spanning from spiritual enlightenment to basic instinct and survival. Coming from an unbiased spiritual background and having a vast understanding of nature and its creatures‚ Pi is a compassionate and intelligent boy. Like the classical hero quest pattern‚ Pi is forced into surviving at sea with only animals as companions. It is a long journey filled with danger solitude and uncertainty‚ but most of all an exploration of faith. Pi’s family runs a zoo in India but flee to Canada (with the

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    Loman stands out as the most intriguing and strong character in “Death of a Salesman. He is not a successful man and never will be‚ he is however able to admit this‚ even in a harsh society as the one of the 1960s America. Biff knows he is a “nothing” and tries to make his father see that he is “no good. I am a dime a dozen‚ Pop‚ and so are you.” He begs for Willy to communicate with him and accept him for who he is. Although Willy is forced by Biff to see some of his own failures‚ he never accepts

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    Naive children who have not developed their own opinion on the world base their views and ideals around those closest to them. Therefore‚ when a parent continuously lies like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesmen‚ they force their child to see life through a frosted glass‚ perpetually torn between the reality of society and how they were told to view it. These contorted views reach children first but begin poisoning the

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    for his or her children. Willy Loman‚ the father of Biff and Happy Loman‚ struggles to create a legacy for his two sons. Besides leaving something to his kids‚ Willy is deeply obsessed with raising his son who once bore so much potential‚ but is now a failure. In his play Death of a Salesman‚ Arthur Miller uses motifs of seeds‚ nature‚ and diamonds to bring to light Willy’s caring but ignorant nature. The motif of seeds and a garden are a metaphor for Biff. When Willy first mentions seeds and growing

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    major capital facilities. D. Most capital projects last only for on fiscal year. 3. A government was billed $3‚000‚000 during the year on its capital project‚ of which $2‚700‚000 was paid. The total contracted cost is $5‚200‚000. The government does not plan to pay the $300‚000 balance currently owed to the contractor until the project has been completed and approved. The government should report Capital Projects Fund expenditures for the current year equal to A. $2‚700‚000. B. $3‚000‚000

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    In an article named “The american dream” it states about how a book written in 1931 stated that how the ways of the American dream in the 1930’s was “the dream was to have land where life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability‚ or achievement” (library of congress‚p.1‚s.1) A little bit about our history of the American dream is that‚ our founding fathers started a revolutionary idea that each person should be able to pursue their idea

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    The definition of the American Dream is supposed to say it all. This depends on which definition one chooses to believe. The American Dream can be defined as the ideals of freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. An alternative definition is a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S. Because of the difference of definitions‚ the achievability of the American Dream can become based on an opinion

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