origin in ancient Greek playwriting and sustains its prevalence in modern times. (Hutchens) Irony allows us as the audience to collectively comprehend the situation on a level that the characters themselves can not. Oedipus Rex‚ Othello‚ and Death of a Salesman are three tragic and relatively prominent plays‚ all written in different time periods‚ which can be examined comparatively with Aristotle’s philosophy of the tragic hero and may draw certain parallel to one another by means of
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Who does not want to live the perfect life‚ the American Dream? Throughout Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman is in pursuit of this Dream. Willy focuses on the idealistic American dream his entire life‚ associating it with financial success‚ an excellent reputation and being well liked. He makes victims of his wife and of his sons by subjecting them to mistreatment and deprivation of a strong male role model. According to the Webster’s Dictionary a victim is one who is subjected to
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------------------------------------------------- Travelling salesman problem The travelling salesman problem (TSP) or travelling salesperson problem asks the following question: Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities‚ what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city? It is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization‚ important in operations research and theoretical computer science. The problem was first formulated
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Miller’s Death Of A Salesman‚ is the typical hard-working American chasing a dream. He was a man who was "way out there in the blue‚ riding on a smile and a shoeshine" (1947) Yet he was a man who ’didn’t know who he was’(1947). His lack of self-knowledge and inability to accept who he is results in his insanity and ultimate demise. Throughout the play‚ Willy tries chasing "all the wrong dreams" (1947). Willy aspires to a man named David Singleman‚ a salesman who "died the death of a salesman‚ in his
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Augustine "og" Mandino ii‚ an American author who wrote the book The Greatest Salesman in the World and was sold over 50 million copies. According to the US census he was born in Natick‚ Massachusetts on Dec 12‚ 1923. He became a US military officer and then later became an insurance salesman. SUMMARY The book highlights majorly on the success principles a man named Hafid‚ in the form of a story. Hafid‚ a young man belongs to a poor family low in status from Jerusalem. He was working as a care taker
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Aracelis Andino Professor Theresa Defranzo English 101 10/10/14 Poetry Assignment Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou was born on August 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis ‚ writer and civil rights activist is known for her 1969 memoir‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. In 1971‚ Angelou published the Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Die. She later wrote the poem "On
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often influences the actions or development of the other characters in the literary work. In Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman"‚ Ben Loman is the character that does just that. Ben is the brother of the main character Willy Loman. Though Ben has a brief part in this play‚ he affects the theme of the play and the development Willy Loman’s character. The central theme in "Death of a Salesman" is the quest to obtain the American Dream. Ben had a tremendous impact on this theme in the play. Ben went
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The word expressionist has been applied to Arthur Miller as a playwright. This is relatively accurate as ‘Death of a Salesman’ features some of the early expressionist characteristics such as Miller dramatizing the sufferings of his characters. Willy is the character that suffers most and it is dramatized at different points in his life. For example when Willy is first made to work on commission and then is not even allowed to work on commission. Miller also likens his characters to mythic figures
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The event of death implies multiple connotations. While death invokes fear and dread on the surface‚ in some cases it evokes acceptance and tranquility. Through these old English texts‚ each author attempts to explore what happens in life after death. Interestingly‚ each author takes a different side while revealing parallel‚ underlying theories. Within their sonnets‚ John Donne and Rochester try to quell the common fear of death. Despite their efforts‚ it is evident through rhetorical devices and
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| |March 25‚ 2010 | |Willy Loman from Death of A Salesman and Joe Keller from All My Sons‚ have similarities in their courses of action which prove detrimental to | |their families and ultimately leads to their suicidal ends.
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