The reception of the American Dream in Tennessee Williams' by Jessica Schweke

By Jessica Schweke

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2005 within the topic American reviews - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt college of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), path: Kurs '20th Century American Drama', eleven entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: This paper offers the belief of the belief of the yankee Dream within the performs A Streetcar Named hope from 1947 through Tennessee Williams and demise of a salesperson, written in 1949 by means of Arthur Miller.
To discover a compatible definition of the yankee Dream I in general orientated my research round the works of America’s founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in addition to Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Winthrop and James Truslow Adams. according to those texts I transferred those elements at the performs via Williams and Miller and looked for adjustments and similarities. the subsequent textual content will for this reason be anxious to begin with with a definition of the time period ‘American Dream’ and the conversion of those notions within the characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ drama A Streetcar Named wish and in Willy Loman in addition to his sons Biff and satisfied in Arthur Miller’s play demise of a Salesman.

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