Coward

Willy Loman as Coward in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Everybody feels the penetrating presence of fear throughout life. However, people’s reactions to this fear separate the brave souls from the cowards. Mark Twain once said, "Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear, not absence of fear" (Twain 6). In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman fears rejection by his son, Biff, and the business world. His fears master him, creating in him a fantasy world of life as it

Within the quote Tom proves he is a coward because he tries to find the easy way out of handling his problems by leaving. Tom believes his absence is a well deserved punishment for his mother and boss because he was forced to fill his father's shoes. The portrayal of Tom's character is similar

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most tragic plays. The story revolves around a prince named Hamlet who strives to keep his word to his dead father by avenging his death. Throughout the play, Hamlet is perceived as a character who is brooding and manic; someone who is so engrossed in killing his uncle for vengeance. Yet, at the same time, he is also a character who is dejected and lonely; a man who loathes himself and his fate. For all that, Hamlet’s life is akin to a paradox. But what

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of his most tragic plays. The story revolves around a prince named Hamlet who strives to keep his word to his dead father by avenging his death. Throughout the play, Hamlet is perceived as a character who is brooding and manic; someone who is engrossed in killing his uncle for vengeance. Yet, at the same time, he is also a character who is dejected and lonely; a man who loathes himself and his fate. For all that, Hamlet’s life is akin to a paradox. But what if

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely” (Unknown). People change and grow because of the challenges and conflicts they have in life. A person I know that has changed and grown a lot from a conflict is my mom because a couple years ago she ripped a tendon in her back, and she had to get many surgeries and wasn’t able to walk for a while. She grew a lot from that experience and now she can walk and is still getting better. In “The Street” by Richard Wright the young boy narrator has to

or stressful situations, Eckels, Travis, and the townsfolk in the lottery, make bad decisions. The townsfolk blunder through their life, blindly following the unjust tradition to stone someone to death each year. Eckels and Travis are both cowards, and cowards tend to make bad decisions because they are selfish. Both stories are connected by these cowardly people that make bad decisions. The lottery townsfolk are put under pressure by not a person, but by tradition. Tradition makes them scared,

Some of the soldiers were such cowards that they injured themselves just to be taken away in a helicopter and extracted from the war scene. The soldiers “spoke bitterly about guys who had found release by shooting off their own toes or fingers. Pussies, they’d say. Candy-asses” (22). However

Wilson as a judgmental and arrogant professional in this short story. His judgmental views on Mr. and Mrs. Macomber also help to develop their characters as well as his. Wilson thinks to himself, “So he’s a bloody four-letter man as well as a bloody coward, he thought. I rather liked him too until today. But how is one to know about an American?” (Page 3). Wilson shows here that he sees Mr. Macomber as a weak, insecure, cowardly man.

The soliloquy spoken by Hamlet in Act IV, scene IV illustrates a remarkable shift in Hamlet's personality. Up until this point, Hamlet has been an extremely indecisive and submissive character. In Act II, Hamlet decides that "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king". However, at the play’s conclusion and Claudius' admission of guilt, Hamlet is still uncertain and cannot decide what action to take against his uncle. When Hamlet comes across Claudius while he is praying,

running away should be the cowardly act, yet that is not what O’Brien thinks. According to him, courageous act would be, if he left everything, and instead of going to war, ran away to Canada. “I was a coward.