A Brief Analysis of Willy Loman’s Tragic Fate in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller was considered as the most famous dramatist in America after the World War II, and his representative work Death of a Salesman was recognized as the best play in America during the post-war years. It was also considered to be one of the best three plays in the history of American drama; with A Streetcar Named Desire and Long Day’s Journey into Night.Through the failure of two generations, this play addressed the painful conflicts within one family, and it also tackled greater issues regarding to Americans’ national values.As an average person, Willy Loman had experienced hopes and pains, struggles and frustrations as well as dreams and disillusions, at last he chose to commit suicide. Based on the existent materials, the predecessor’s researches as well as her own thinking, the author of this paper gives a brief analysis of the leading role’s tragic fate, which mainly elaborates three important stages of Willy Loman’s tragic life: disillusion of the American Dream, the abandonment and the betrayal, aiming to decode the root of Loman’s tragedy from the perspectives of society, family and the protagonist’s character. In conclusion, the paper tries to explore Arthur Miller’s inner world and the resources of his creation as far as possible, hoping to give readers of this paper certain inspiration.     

STRUGGLE FOR A "ZERO ZONE"——Women’s Plight Situation in The Little Foxes

The little foxes, Lillian Hellman’s most popular piece of drama, is a cynical play which concerns with family greed and revenge. Analyzed from various critical perspectives, The Little Foxes is most prominently studied on her political viewpoint. Here this paper is intended to study it from the aspect of women’s position in the drama, or more concretely, in that society by the analyzing of the two main women characters: Birdie and Regina, to reveal that whichever kind of life a woman living in the early twentieth chose to live, she would never be "successful".     

An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.     

Surviving by Dying:A Paradox of Life On Mark Twain’ s Is He Living,or is He Dead

Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain’ s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.     

An Interpretation of Mary’s Tragedy from the Perspective of Interpersonal Ethics

The novel, The Grass is Singing, written by Doris Lessing, describes the tragic life of a white woman Mary living in South Africa. The article tries to explore the factors resulting in Mary’s tragedy from the perspective of interpersonal ethics so as to reveal the suppression and distortion of traditional ethics over men’s spirit and Lessing’s humanistic feelings.     

The Futility of Willy’s Philosophy of Personal Attractiveness in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller’s masterpiece Death of a Salesman is a very clear attack on the American success myth.The most dominant theme running throughout the play is Willy Loman’s philosophy of personal attractiveness and its doomed futility.This philosophy not only brings failure to Willy’s career but also destruction to Willy’s family members.     

Disillusionment of American Dream:Willy Loman’s Tragic Dream

Arthur Miller plays an important role in American literature. His works have a great influence on American literature afterWorld War Ⅱ.Willy Loman is the symbol of modern American man. His living state is typical during that time in America. This paperstarts with a survey of Willy’s two dreams-his children can own big future; he can own big business. In the second part, the author contrasts Willy’s unreal dreams with the reality, through this comparison, aims at analyzing the sad elements of Willy’s life, exploring thesource of his sadness. Willy is one convict of American dream. He is influenced greatly by the American cultural mainstream. As an individual drowning in the harsh world, he cannot grasp his own fate by himself.     

Shylock’s Tragedy in The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most contradictory plays of William Shakespeare.Through presenting and studying the tragedy nature of Shylock,this thesis attempts to illustrate the tragic nature of Merchant of Venice.In this paper the author tries to reveal the significance of its tragic nature through thorough analyzing.Shylock’s tragedy is the tragedy of individual struggling,which shows in the aspects of family,money and religion.The profound reason for Shylock’s tragedy is his Jewish identity.Therefore,the author of this paper is enlightened hereby,turning to a lot of books and data,and then analyzes the origins of Jewish prejudice from two aspects,society and history.Christianity has dominated the west,with its doctrine mainly derived from the New Testament.Meanwhile,Judaism derives its doctrine from the Old Testament.Therefore,the pious Christians will be misled by the contents of libeling Jews and the murdering of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.So a kind of instinctive hatred toward Jews is generated.This kind of tendency is rather clear in the play The Merchant of Venice.In this play,Shylock mentions several times that Antonio has insulted him physically and mentally in the Rialto.Almost all the characters in the play humiliate Shylock.But,he just endures all these insults quietly,and then looks for the chance to revenge.In the end,under the delicate trap set by the authority,Shylock loses again.He loses everything he could lose,both materially and mentally.Nothing is more frustrating than that.However,the author of this paper believes that it is worth paying attention to in the present day.In this paper,the author chooses this topic,presents and analyzes the tragedy of Shylock,and reveals the positive significance of the tragic nature of the play for our time.     

An Analysis of Tess’ s Tragedy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical.     

The Function of Colour in Ezra Pound’s Imagist Poetry

This paper is to explore the function of colour in Ezra Pound’s Imagist poetry.As the position of image in poetry is raised,colour,as a part making up image,play a much more positive role in Pound’s Imagist poems by defining the image to be more concrete and definite and reinforcing the theme directly.Pound’s Imagist poetry includes his typical short Imagist poems and his poems in Cathay.     

The Tragic Beauty of Unicorn--New Interpretation to the Symbolic Meaning of Unicorn in The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’s first successful play. He uses several symbols in this play and enforces the tragic effect of the characters. Most people think that the unicorn represents Laura herself, especially her peculiarity, but to my understanding, it’s more like Jim O’Connor, rare and special yet tragic. My essay provides a new interpretation to the symbolic meaning of the unicorn, highlighting the tragic and fragile feature of it.     

Analysis of the Females in The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams is a famous American postwar playwright.Many of his works leave deep impression to audiences.The Glass Menagerie is one of his most famous works.This paper mainly explores two female characters in this play—Amanda and Laura about their tragic characteristics,which had a negative influence on the whole family and lead to Tom’s leaving home,the only male of this family after his dad left.The last part of this paper analyses why Amanda’s and Laura’s characteristics bring this play a tragic ending,because they art the victims of the patriarchal society.They had no choice and no power to change the situation.     

Analysis of Blanche’s Tragedy Life in the Streetcar Named Desire

the Streetcar named Desire,written by Tennessee Williams,is a well-known play and of course wins a great honor for Tennessee Williams.Many critics gave it lot of attention and make many comments on the heroin’s tragedy life,according to the study of the predecessors,this paper will make an analysis of the causes of the heroin’s tragedy life.     

Rising Acceptance of Life and Negative Capability—A Reading of John Keats’s Odes

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-the famous line in English romantic poet John Keats’Ode on a Grecian Urn-has triggered wide discussion and numerous interpretations. From the point of"negative capability", a phrase first coined by Keats himself, this paper is attempting to display the consistency between that poetic line and the poet’s creation and life attitude on the whole. For this purpose, this paper will mainly introduce and interpret five of Keats’famous odes in the order of their display of his"rising acceptance of life": Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy and Ode on Indolence. This paper would like to show in the first three Keats’s positive quest in different aspects and on certain levels, the fourth the underlying tone of life’s polyphonous song, and the final the"negative capability"that constitutes his healthy attitude toward creation and life. Finally, this paper hopes to demonstrate that it is such capability that enables the poet to growingly accept life, and it is also essential to him as a philosophical poet.     

Influence of Co-membership on Teacher’s Coauthoring on Student’s Narratives

This paper examines the specific research question of how co-membership in discourse style and life experience influences teacher’s coauthoring on student’s narratives in the ESL teaching and learning context in the United States. As a case study,a specific student’s classroom narratives are transcribed and analyzed. The research findings indicate that a shared discourse style and an overlap in life experience between the teacher and the student will exert positive influence on the teacher’s coauthoring on the student’s narratives. Above all,sharing the same discourse style makes it possible for the teacher to recognize the rhythm of the student’s narratives,to detect the moments when the student needs interactional support and offer help,and to quickly notice a potential ending of the student’s narrative and expand it with open-ended questions and comments. In addition,an overlap in life experience makes it possible for the teacher to go deep into the student’s narratives by contributing specific and concrete thoughts rather than responding with superficial ideas.     

从《推销员之死》窥视阿瑟·米勒的象征艺术(英文)

Death of a Salesman by American playwright Arthur Miller portrays a tragic yet realistic view of society in the 1950’s.Symbolism employed in this play is vital in communicating the significance of the central theme of failure within a success-oriented society.Some symbols are listed and analyzed in this paper,hoping to help the readers gain a better insight into the playwright’s literary technique in developing the play.     

A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Laura's Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is William’s first successful play.It tells a tragic story of the life of the Wingfields.The Wingfields all lead a tragic life,especially the daughter,Laura.This thesis applies Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality,the theory of anxiety and defence mechanism to give the readers a further understanding of the inner world of Laura so as to understand her erratic behavior and the true causes of her tragedy.     

Identity and Community in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Toni Morrison’s Sula was published in 1973.It portrays a black woman who quests for self under the strick doctrines of black community.The novel puts forward a complexed contradiction of identity and black community in the historical context of black community and protagonist Sula’s change,rejection,awareness of self and death.The overall challenges of Sula pays her life as a price.Morrison,through this piece of work,reveals the conflicts between Sula’s self and black community.Sula’s tragic ending voices an unchanged fact that self must be developed within the black community.     

Thoreau’s philosophy of “simplify”

The essay expounds the philosophy of Thoreau’s "simplify" in aspect of meaning and reason.Closely connected with the relationship between human and nature,it enables us to see the point of a brooding,simple and sensible life of Thoreau.The end clarifies on a question:according to Thoreau,what is to have a simplify life? That’s to care for little,listen to one’s heart and do what one likes.The conclusion comes with an advocation that people keep a simple life with little greed,and take it as an ulti mate cure for the bothering life of today.     

Teacher’s Role in Students’Group Work in College English Classroom

The implementation of group work in China is aroused by the teaching reform and proposal of the New Curriculum Standard, in order to improve the language teaching and learning. However, in many cases group work is far less effective and desirable than it should have been. The effectiveness of group work depends on many factors in real language classroom setting. This paper mainly focuses on the factor of teacher’s role. The main implication of this paper is to suggest the appropriate teacher role in students’group work and put forward some skills in organizing group work in order to make group work more effective and significant.