in life is often a reflection of their childhood‚ or how they grew up. The different ways a child is treated by their parents may later affect the amount of grit he or she has‚ therefore affecting their later success in life. In the book Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ Biff‚ Happy and Bernard each grew up in different ways. Although Biff and Happy grew up in the same home‚ their father‚ Willy Loman‚ treated the boys differently‚ and therefore their views on life as adults turned out slightly
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SELF-DECEPTION * Being in the box * See matters only from own closed perspective * Resistant to suggestion that the truth was otherwise * No matter what we’re doing on the outside‚ pp respond primarily to how we’re feeling about them on the inside * Pp primarily responds not to what we do but to how we’re being‚ whether we’re in or out of the box. * I sat there blaming others‚ while she seemed not to have blamed‚ but to have understood * Big problem – Self-deceived
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Death of a Salesman:A Postmodernist Study Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt to mirror the struggling modern characters who live in the world of postmodernism but are the slave of the preventive beliefs of modernism. This play is the story of all human beings who are in search of success‚ Love‚ Pride‚ and Ambition‚ but are oscillating between the modern and postmodern values. They find themselves disintegrated and isolated in the cruel language
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In the next paragraph‚ the main character becomes less formal with her language. Above she is not formal‚ using incomplete sentences and common language‚ but she is more brief. Here‚ we have a conversational tone‚ a little stream of consciousness‚ which continues throughout the story. The diction is still the most essential element of craft. For example‚ the narrator tells us‚ “Twenty-ninth is my stop too but I have to go all the way downtown to cash Mrs. Jessel’s check. If she pays me with a check
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Willy’s illusion at first just concerned himself‚ but as the play progresses his illusion begin to include his whole family. Willy now not only has a warped sense of his greatness‚ but the greatness of his sons as well. Willy replays Biff’s final football game over and over in his mind‚ leaving a sense of accomplishment in his mind‚ yet in reality Biff flunked out of math‚ never went to college and never truly progressed. Biff tries to prove to his father that he is not the man he believes him
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Throughout the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare many characters reveal their fatal flaw which may lead to their downfall. Things are not always as they seem. Many characters use deception to achieve their goals. Only later to receive the consequences of their actions. Examples include how deception has resulted in the death of Duncan and Macbeth and the suffering of many other characters in the play. Duncan makes the mistake of trusting the thane of Cawdor at the beginning of the play. This is an
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their own Weapons Lies and deception are some of the many actions that have disastrous consequences. For the most part‚ they destroy trust and leave the people closest to us feeling vulnerable. In Hamlet‚ one of Shakespeare’s many plays‚ the theme of lies and deception is very significant. This play shows that every character that lies and practices the act of deception is ultimately punished for doing so by their treacherous deaths. Hamlet has lied and practiced deception several times which has prolonged
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Importance of being Earnest‚ and Death of a Salesman display signs of sharing similar ideas of what is wrong with the society today. Both books display examples and contradictions between what society should be like‚ and what it is. The importance of being Earnest discusses issues such as the superficiality society‚ and how quickly they judge‚ the irresponsibility of people who are just “ Thrill Seekers” and the idea of how ignorant of a society we can be. Death of a Salesman discusses topics such as the
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Smiles that Faded Deception that Killed William Shakespeare utilized acts of unforetold love‚ treachery‚ revenge‚ and deception that helped to develop works that have been highly praised for centuries. In Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet‚ he continues to use these tools to unfold a story that reveals the questionable sanity of the main character‚ Hamlet. While Hamlet grieves the death of his late father he discovers the true reality behind the mysterious death. The discovery of this unbearable truth
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some way. In turn‚ we are all affected by deception. ‘Deceit builds a web of lies that inevitably brings upon its own demise’ is a prominent theme found amongst our society. Deception is only a mouse’s trap we set‚ in which we eventually catch ourselves‚ in some form. Our downfall derives from our deceit‚ which we push ourselves closer to with every lie. Society serves deceit on a variety of platters‚ fed to us throughout our lives‚ and with this deception‚ we become accustomed to it being part of
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