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    Lilit Torosyan English 102 Death of a SalesmanDeath of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is a narration about American society‚ its expectations and attitudes that shape people’s lives. It is told through the lives of a salesman Willy‚ his family and several other people who‚ in some way‚ have an impact on them. Willy‚ who falls into his imaginary word of the past frequently during the day‚ is regretful for some of his actions in the past that ‘prevented’ him of becoming rich. Now‚ he wants

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    A Raisin In The Sun and The Death Of A Salesman When you read plays and books‚ you use your imagination to picture what it would look like until you watch the movie but sometimes the movie is something completely different than what you imagined it to be. That’s how it is with most books and plays. When I read the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry I pictured the characters to look and act differently than they did in the movie. It threw me off when I realized that Sean Combs or

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    Death of a Salesman The world is an oyster‚ but you don’t crack it open on a mattress! (32‚ 23-24) Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller that represents the postwar American living. The protagonist‚ Willy Loman – a salesman – is a peculiar character which portrays the feelings and ambitions of a man of that time. Despite being a person that lives of dreams‚ he has a realistic idea about achievements in life. Talking to his son Happy after a daydream about his brother Ben‚ Willy

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    Death of a Salesman Movie Review An American Tragedy or Real World Reality? Arthur Miller successfully portrays themes of disaster in his play Death of a Salesman. This play turned film in 1884 during its Broadway debut‚ majorly produced by Volker Schlondroff. Not only directed by the best‚ Willy Loman’s original black and white personality was brought to colors by Dustin Hoffman. Accompanying; John Malkovich played the leading protagonist/antagonist personality of Biff Loman. While Willy Loman

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    Willy Loman‚ the protagonist of “Death of a Salesman”‚ doesn’t believe in working hard yet expects success. In 1945 when Arthur Miller wrote this play‚ America was going through the Great Depression. Many immigrants were still looking for the American Dream when they had moved to the U.S.‚ but not every dreamer became successful. "Death of a Salesman" is a tragic play. Some critics think it indictment of the American lifestyle‚ criticizing everyone from an ordinary worker to the capitalist system

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    Jessica Raines ENC1102- 9:30 Final Essay May 6‚ 2013 Choice 1: Similarity between “The Chrysanthemums” and “Death of a Salesman” In these two stories there isn’t much similarity except how old they both are and the theme‚ individual worth. By definition Individual worth is the sense of one’s own value or worth as a human being. Unfortunately in both of these stories they have very little individual worth. In Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” Elisa is probably the smartest character in the

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    Death of a Salesman and Empire Falls Death of a Salesman is actually a very different story from Empire Falls. Although they are very different‚ they do have some similarities. If it weren’t for the novel‚ How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ I probably wouldn’t have seen these similarities. The novels‚ Death of a Salesman and Empire Falls have many differences but the few similarities come from literary elements that they have in common. In the novel Death of a Salesman‚ the story

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    A Dysfunctional Family from Death of a Salesman “We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house.” This quote is said by Biff Loman himself. Willy Loman is the father of Biff and Happy Loman‚ and the husband of Linda. The Loman’s are an average working class American family. In the play‚ The Death of a Salesman‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the Loman’s go through very difficult circumstances throughout the play. These circumstances are not exactly obvious but they are shown throughout

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    Langston Hughes’s poem "Dream Deferred" is basically about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. Hughes probably intended for the poem to focus on the dreams of African-Americans because he originally entitled the poem "Harlem‚" which is the capital of African American life in the United States; however‚ it is just as easy to read the poem as being about dreams in general and what happens when people postpone making them come true. Overall‚ Hughes uses a carefully arranged series of

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    IB Literature II—HL: Cue Card Instructions L.Lyon (Adapted from A.Wiggins) Spring 2014 Contents of each Cue Card: 1. AUTHOR and TEXTS (properly punctuated) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 2. BIRTH/DEATH DATES AND PLACES OF BIRTH/DEATH He was born on October 17‚ 1915 in Harlem New York He died on February 10‚ 2005‚ in  Roxbury‚ Connecticut. 3. HISTORICAL DATE THE TEXT WAS PUBLISHED  The play was first performed in 1949. That period was the post war period for the Second World

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