In a somewhat sub-plot, Biff wants to try again at his city life and get a good job that will not only take care of his families’ financial problems, but will also make his father proud of him. Another sub-plot suggests that Willy once had an affair, this somewhat strained his relationship with his son. The overall inciting incident of the play is when the mother tells Biff about what’s really going on with his father. That they’ve been borrowing money to pay their bills, their father drives all over the country and doesn’t actually sell anything. She also tells her two sons about how their father is suicidal and she has found a piece of rubber tubing in the basement that he will use to kill himself.
The fact that Royal, after twenty two years, decided to give his wife a divorce before marrying Henry shows how much he has grown and formed into a man who has developed the ability to think of others. Another example of this transformation is Royal’s self jeopardizing act of saving Ari and Uzi from Eli crashing the car into the house. Throughout the movie, Royal has always seemed to look out for number one, but this act put himself in danger to save his grandsons that never really knew him. Overtime, Royal has an epiphany that these last days living with his family were truly the most important and best days of his
THE GREAT DEPRESSION American success failed when the stock market crashed in 1929 during President Herbert Hoover’s administration. All of a sudden people were out of work, thousands lost their savings, and the nation was in a state of shock. Even millionaires lost their money. The problems and the causes that led up to The Great Depression were multiple. Farm income went down from the drought.
In Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, Gecko is the determined ambitious character, he doesn’t care who he hurts or what he destroys, and he can’t truly appreciate anything unless it’s worth something financially, this is shown when the stocks on ‘Blue Star Airlines’ start falling and the Union members visit gecko just to tell him that they no longer support him buying the company, and then his rival, Larry Wildman, has worked together with Foxx (one of gecko’s stockbrokers, who realises he is being played a fool by gecko) In Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, Gecko is the determined ambitious character, he doesn’t care who he hurts or what he destroys, and he can’t truly appreciate anything unless it’s worth something financially, this is shown when the stocks on ‘Blue Star Airlines’ start falling and the Union members visit gecko just to tell him that they no longer support him buying the company, and then his rival, Larry Wildman, has worked together with Foxx (one of gecko’s stockbrokers, who realises he is being played a fool by gecko) Ambition: Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something typically requiring determination and hard work. This is shown in both Macbeth & Wall Street with both protagonists displaying determination to rise to the top, but that ambition and determination eventually leads to their inevitable downfall. Although both texts are from different times, the concepts are the same, if you mess with the chain of being; nothing good will work out for you. Ambition: Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something typically requiring determination and hard work. This is shown in both Macbeth & Wall Street with both protagonists displaying determination to rise to the top, but that ambition and determination eventually leads to their inevitable downfall.
Most bought their stocks on margin which means they still owe money. When the stock market crashed, the value of their stocks went down but they still had to pay every penny that they owed before even though the value went down. Many people panicked and tried to all sell their stocks at the same time which brought the prices and values down even more. The Great Depression had a huge effect on businesses because it they lost their fortune and many went bankrupt. They were forced to lay off all of their workers and close down.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
Willy Loman, a self-deluded salesman who lives in complete denial searching for his "American Dream," finds himself in a belated mid-life crisis. He never achieved the glorious existence as a salesman he had envisioned for himself, so he places all his hopes in his two sons, Biff and Happy. But because their father has infused them with the same fundamentally wrong sense of morality and of what is important in life that has delayed his own success and happiness, the sons find themselves equally trapped and suspended in time without the ability to succeed. Miller reveals Willy’s Struggle as the perfect father, his concerns in his image as a role model, and his controllable actions that misguides the downfall in his relationship with his
He actually joined the Navy out of high school. Therefore when it shows that Rudy struggles to pay tuition, under the GI Bill, his tuition should have been paid after serving. One of the big reasons Rudy decided to go and pursue his dreams was the death of his best friend Pete who died in an accident working at the power plant. This did actually happen in real life, but Pete who he meets at work in the movie was actually his childhood friend growing up. In the movie, Pete gets in a fight with his older brother over Rudy and pursuing his dreams, fortunately this never happened.
The author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is about the narrator, Nick Carraway, and his quest to unravel the secrets behind his neighbor Jay Gatsby who is the protagonist. East egg, West egg and the valley of ashes, all portray an illusion that describes the characters. The characters in the book live in a world that is not reality that is proven through a sequence of lies. Gatsby’s life holds no underlying meaning besides the strive for wealth, which he soon realizes is not sufficient in order to achieve greater things in life. The protagonist’s illusion of being wealthy is shattered when he realizes he has nothing in life he truly wants.
A certain part of him thought this was not his real life, he couldn't be the son of such unambitious, unsuccessful people. As a teenager he wrote down a tight schedule and a list of "improvements" he must make on himself. At seventeen he changed his name to Jay Gatsby and became an assistant to a wealthy millionaire, Dan Cody. When Cody died, leaving his assistant a few thousand dollars, Gatsby was on his way to achieving his dream. Through mostly illegal business practice, he broke free from the working class chains.