Willy Lowman example essay topic

The similarity of themes that are presented such as tragic hero, death, love of ones family, down role of women, revenge means of importance and internal conflicts are presented to the reader by main charters in novels that have been read in this course are Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf, Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and William Lowman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. This is shown through the actions and words that each character presents. Hamlet is a tragic hero, his father dies and his mother betrays him. He is drawn to answer difficult questions, which cannot be answered with any certainty for a ghost has told him so. Faced with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, Hamlet becomes obsessed with proving his uncle's guilt before trying to act, being the resonance man that he is. He is equally in thought with questions about the afterlife, about the wisdom of suicide "to be or not to be that is the question".

He is extremely disappointed with his mother for marrying his uncle so quickly "thy married within 3 moths of my fathers death", and his denial of Ophelia, a woman he once claimed to love. His words often indicate his disgust with of women in general. Hamlet feels that it is important that he avenges the death of his father; it is the only way that he will feel importance in his life again. Willy Lowman is a tragic hero he works and does not achieve the self-realization or self-knowledge of himself and of is family. The resolution that his suicide offers him represents only a partial discovery of the truth. Willy fails to realize his personal failure and betrayal of his family through the artificial facts of his life.

"The jungle is dark, but full of diamonds" turns Willy's suicide into a metaphorical moral struggle. He cannot grasp the true personal, emotional, spiritual understanding of himself as a literal "lowman" or "low man". Willy is too driven by his own " 'willy'-ness" or perverse "wilfulness" to recognize the reality that he is nothing in the new world. Willy's failure to recognize the tormented love (tolerance) offered to him by his family is crucial. Despite this failure, Willy makes the most extreme sacrifice in his attempt to leave an inheritance that will allow Biff to fulfill the American Dream. His final act, according to Ben, is "not like an appointment at all" but like a "diamond... rough and hard to the touch".

In the absence of any real degree of self-knowledge or truth, Willy is able to achieve a tangible result. In some respect, he finally comes to understand that the product he sells is himself. Through the imaginary advice of Ben, Willy ends up fully believing his earlier assertion to Charley that "after all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive". Willy concludes his presence on the novel by committing susi de, thinking that all will be well for the inheritance that his family will receive. Mrs. Ramsay as a woman of great kindness and tolerance but also a protector.

Indeed, her primary goal is to keep her youngest son James's sense of hope and wonder surrounding the lighthouse. Though she realizes that Mr. Ramsay is correct in declaring that foul weather will ruin the next day's voyage, she persists in assuring James that the trip is a possibility. She tolerates the insufferable behavior of Charles T ansley, whose bitter attitude and awkward manners threaten to undo the delicate work she has done toward making a pleasant and inviting home. She is able to masterfully satisfy her husband's desire for her to tell him she loves him without saying the words she finds so difficult to say. Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one?

For it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay's knee. She only tells him what he would like to hear. This scene displays Mrs. Ramsay's ability to bring together disparate things into a whole. In a world marked by the ravages of time and war, in which everything must and will fall apart including the death of her son. Lily and other characters find themselves grasping for this unity after Mrs. Ramsay's death. As it is evident that most all the novel carry similar themes corresponding to each other, The themes of a tragic hero, death, love of ones family, down role of women, revenge means of importance and internal conflicts are presented by the main characters in each book.

To compare the novels To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf, Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller it is evident that all have life experience of the same "themes" in life. Each deal with in the words of their novels.