Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller is a play is about the Lomans, an average middle class dysfunctional family trying to live out the American Dream in the tough economic period of 1945 to 1950s. The lead character Willy Loman is a 63 year old traveling salesman who has lost his salary and working only on commission. Exhausted from his work, he also is disturbed by the fact that his well-liked 34 year old son Biff, hasn't lived up to his potential of being a successful businessman. Willy

The Family Man As we grow up in this world we are introduced to morals and values in which we all have some sense of in each and every one of us. We are born with a sense of protectiveness for our loved ones, a necessity to guide them to the right choices, and a need to provide for them. Arthur Miller a father of three children himself, has this deeply rooted into his mind and within his literary works. (Abbotson) Arthur Asher Miller a man of many very high esteemed novels was born in New York

The Skin of Our Teeth: Themes & Style | "The Skin of Our Teeth stands head and shoulders above the monotonous plane of our moribund theatre--an original, gay-hearted play that is now and again profoundly moving, as a genuine comedy should be" (Northeastern Illinois University). This was what Brooke Atkinson wrote in New York Times upon the agreement of most reviewers that Thorton Wilder had produced a work that would revitalize American theatre. Disrupting traditional notions of linear time, Wilder's

An Analysis of Tragic Heroism of Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller This literary study will define the tragic heroism of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller’s play The Death of a Salesman. Biff is initially a victim of Willy’s continual harassment to make more money and find a better career. In this family unit, Biff must endure the unrealistic and fantasy-based elusions of his father in his fanatical pursuit of the American Dream. However, Biff soon learns of Willy’s extra-marital betrayal

The Future is in Your Hands. Children grow up naturally emulating the adults around them, for most it is their mother and father, this is natural and typically a positive thing. There are times, however, when the people that children emulate are not the best examples society has to offer. In the play Fences Cory looks up to his dad when it comes to sports. However, by the end of the play the reader starts to notice that Troy is not the man to look up to. The plot in Fences by August Wilson is centered

In John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 play, Doubt: A Parable, the principal of a Catholic school believes one of the teachers is making sexual advances on one of the boys. Shanley argues through this text that sexism in the Catholic Church in the 1960s placed children in danger. He does this by establishing a positive ethos, or ethical appeal, of one of the four characters, Sister Aloysius Beauvier, and then proceeding to limit her ability to protect her students because she is a woman. Shanley begins

A haunting of the past In August Wilson’s play, “The piano lesson,” the author takes his readers on a journey through the life of the Charles family. Sister and brother battle each other over a piano that tells their family’s history. Through examining their history, Wilson uses setting and symbolism to convey his personal belief in the importance of one’s ancestral family roots and the significant impact it has in a person’s everyday life. The author uses setting to introduce the significance

August Wilson's Fences - Building Fences The first time I read August Wilson's Fences for english class, I was angry. I was angry at Troy Maxson, angry at him for having an affair, angry at him for denying his son, Cory, the opportunity for a football scholarship.I kept waiting for Troy to redeem himself in the end of the play, to change his mind about Cory, or to make up with Ruth somehow. I wanted to know why, and I didn't, couldn't understand. I had no intention of writing my research paper

When the realities of life become too harsh, humankind has a natural tendency to choose the most convenient solution to his problem: illusion. They build dreams and fantasies to conceal the more difficult truths of their lives. In his play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller portrays the hold of such illusions on individuals and its horrible consequences. Through the overly average, overly typical Loman family, Miller shows how dreams of a better life become, as Choudhuri put it, “fantasies to the

Fences written by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller are two plays that could be considered very different in terms of their plot. The plots of both plays contain two very different cultural backgrounds which affects each protagonist differently. If the reader or audience looks past the plot into the theme and symbolisms used they can see that the plays are more similar than they are different. In spite of the different cultural backgrounds of each protagonist they both