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        <title><![CDATA[like ibsen, miller often explores the origin and consequences of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[like ibsen, miller often explores the origin and consequences of shameful actions]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:53:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is the  moment in the story at which the writer decides to start...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is the  moment in the story at which the writer decides to start the play's action, which could be found at the end of the story]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:36:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It would not be the same.
If Willy is the protagonist, the antagonist...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It would not be the same.
If Willy is the protagonist, the antagonist would be the force that wrecks him: The fake ideal of the American Dream and its assumption that hard work earns you the happiness that you deserve.
If Biff is considered the protagonist, his antagonist would have been his own father. He was the character who changed Biff's life and sent it spiraling down. It was his Dad's infidelity what made Biff change the image of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:14:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Willy is the protagonist , who or what constitutes the antagonist...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If Willy is the protagonist , who or what constitutes the antagonist force? Is the antagonist the same as if one considers Biff as the protagonist?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:35:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would also add the enabling issue in this particular family.
Linda...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would also add the enabling issue in this particular family.
Linda enabled Willy's infidelity by not questioning her husband enough, not getting to know exactly what was going on on his trips. After so many years of marriage, you must question exactly how ignorant she was on the situation. She is still enabling Willy, as she still has not stood a firm ground on getting help for him. Instead, she pretends that all will pass, and that those...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:10:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both sons are affected by Willy's actions. Happy suffers to make his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both sons are affected by Willy's actions. Happy suffers to make his father notice him. Each attempt to win his father's love and repect is a reflection of Willy's own attempts to gain the respect of those around him in the business world. Each time we see Willy meeting with someone, or begging for an extension, we see Happy, either in the present or the past, desperately seeking his father's recognition. His failures to win his father's favor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:08:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a "Death of A Salesman" how does the cycle notion of family patterns...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In a "Death of A Salesman" how does the cycle notion of family patterns affect this story]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:03:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Biff's experiences certainly are not limited. He has plenty of evidence...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Biff's experiences certainly are not limited. He has plenty of evidence to convince him that his life has been less than a success, to say the least. My point is that Biff's view of himself as a person (not his experiences) is limited, limited as in being incomplete or skewed. All the while he was growing up--and after--his father pumped him up, told him how extraordinary he was, and blamed his failures and shortcomings on other people. Biff...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:35:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Biff travels upstate to surprise his father, &amp; finds another woman...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Biff travels upstate to surprise his father, &amp; finds another woman in his hotel room. The shock of the adultery, in addition to the feelings of betrayal and abandonment, drives Biff throughout the rest of the play. He is consumed by his father's failings, which translate into his own inability to "settle down"- he lacks a steady job, &amp; his relationships with women are disastrous. Even his relationship with his mother is destroyed; he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:14:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Biff fails math, he immediately runs to his father.  Willy has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Biff fails math, he immediately runs to his father.  Willy has always told Biff that he is special, that his athletic ability and his good looks are all that he need.  Biff believes that the grade won't "count."  He thinks that Willy will be able to intervene and convince the teacher to pass him.
Biff meets up with Willy in Boston.  However, when he gets there, he finds Willy with his mistress.  This destroys Biff's image of his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:10:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What causes Biff to run-off and not graduate in "Death of a Salesman"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What causes Biff to run-off and not graduate in "Death of a Salesman"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:56:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #3: I wouldn't narrow it down to a "limited way" as his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #3: I wouldn't narrow it down to a "limited way" as his experience is fully realized in all the jobs he has. He finally knows who he is because he sees and knows of all the negativity emanating from the father. There is nothing else for him to know in the play. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:32:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Biff does know who he is, but in a limited way. By the end of the play,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Biff does know who he is, but in a limited way. By the end of the play, he recognizes his failures, his ordinariness, his lies, his thievery, his own corruption. He sums himself up: "I'm nothing!" He tells Willy, "I'm a dime a dozen . . . ." Biff judges himself very harshly, focusing on everything in his own character he has come to see and detest. It is, therefore, a limited view of himself, but perhaps it is Biff's first steps toward finding...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:53:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Willy is, no doubt, the play's main character; Biff, however, plays a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/death-of-a-salesman/group/discuss/play-death-salesman-do-you-think-willy-main-50839#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Willy is, no doubt, the play's main character; Biff, however, plays a particularly significant role in the play. Besides being a dynamic and well developed character in his own right, Biff is a functional character in the play. It is his discovery of Willy in the hotel room with the woman that originally poisoned his relationship with his father, and it is their conflict that largely drives the play and forms its subtext. Biff functions in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:42:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By "Ibsen's theater," do you mean the content of Ibsen's plays or the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/death-of-a-salesman/group/discuss/miller-ibsen-elements-theatres-51037#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[By "Ibsen's theater," do you mean the content of Ibsen's plays or the manner in which they were staged? In terms of content, conflicts, themes, etc., there really is nothing new under the sun because human nature has never changed. There are supposedly ten basic stories in fiction, and every work represents a variation of one of them. I have never linked Miller to Ibsen (which means nothing!), but Miller's plays are such a reflection of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:25:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both works develop themes of determinism, suggesting that their...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both works develop themes of determinism, suggesting that their characters' lives are shaped by forces and/or circumstances beyond their control, leading them both to tragic outcomes. Significant differences, however, are found in the personalities of Willy Loman and Ethan Frome. Based on those differences, my sympathy lies with Ethan.
Willy worked hard, and at the end of his life, he regretted not having much of anything to show for his labor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:36:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which character is more sympathetic--Willy Loman from Death of a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which character is more sympathetic--Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman or Ethan Frome from Ethan Frome?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:33:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the theme of abandonment in Death of a Salesman.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the theme of abandonment in Death of a Salesman.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:29:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have the feeling that he did really adopt them, but in a way, made...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have the feeling that he did really adopt them, but in a way, made them his own. It is not uncommon to do that.  That doesn't mean that The Crucible is not any less of a play if he took ideas from Hawthorne or any other writer.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:52:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #2:
 
I agree with you, but could you please give me an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #2:
 
I agree with you, but could you please give me an examples of the different ideas Miller &amp; Ibsen share in it.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:59:44 PST</pubDate>
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