A Happy Death

The tragic play “Death Of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, is about a salesman named Willy Loman whose life is going downhill. Willy Loman, the head of the family, has been teaching his two sons Biff and Happy about how they should live their life. Biff was a football star at his high school and hoped that he would receive a scholarship from University of Virginia. Unfortunately, he flunked his math class and could not graduate. His other son, Happy is the youngest son who actually listens to Willy and his advices, but Willy appreciates Biff more than Happy as his son by favoring him more. Linda Loman, the wife of Willy is a tough woman who endlessly supports Willy throughout the play and always caring about him and the family which is ironic…

Psychology and literature both divulge in aspects of life people would otherwise evade, namely death. Margaret Atwood and Edgar Allen Poe have become known for their unsettling writing subjects, yet death is not simply another macabre literary experiment. Two stories so different in terms of structure, narrative, and overall tone would appear to have nothing in common, yet Atwood’s “Happy Endings” and Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” share a mutual underlying theme that through death, beginnings and…

the oldest son. Happy also mirrors Willy’s relationship with his older brother Ben, he feels dependent on going along with what his brother is doing to succeed. Happy waits all his life for Biff to show him the way. Happy’s dream of breaking free, of being outside lies in the dream of promoting “sporting good” exhibitions once Biff gets the funds. Happy is a doer not a thinker. Already Biff had drawn Happy into womanizing, as Happy says “You taught me everything I know about woman” and Happy…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

I probably would have skipped a film like Happy Death Day under normal circumstances. I mean this format has been done to death recently with films like Before I Fall just 7 months ago and done better with films like Edge of Tomorrow. But I was given a good recommendation based on the writer so I checked it out. Happy Death Day is a comedic slasher film about a bitchy Kappa girl who repeats the same day over and over again after a baby masked killer, ends life her every day in various comedic…

two biggest hits are the top of the charts. The movie It is a remaking of the old 1990 movie, which was based on Stephen King’s book It. Happy Death Day is a new twist on the idea of recurring days; which was originally seen in Groundhog Day. Both movies are filled with many frightening scenes, sure to keep the theater-goers on their shoes; however, one is far better than the other. Happy Death Day is superior to It. First, the plot structures of the two…

One). This proves that Williams knew how to get to people, in a good way. He knew how to talk to people to show them what truly matters in life; not money or pleasing others, but by pleasing themselves first by doing what they love and makes them happy. He worked hard on proving this to himself, being diagnosed with depression was only an obstacle for him to continue searching for what brought him joy. That was how he wanted everyone else to view the illness as as well, always making sure they…

refers to this phenomenon as social learning, in which individuals examine and emulate the behavior of another (Witt & Mossler, 2010, Chapter 2). This fairy tale, super hero idea I had of my brother slowly began to fade, when at some point in my pre-adolescent years, I realized that my brother was indeed different from everyone I knew. He would get upset over little things like soy sauce or freak out if one of his movies was out of place. All of my brother’s peculiarities, I later learned…

Adam Sandler is an American born, Russian descendent, Jewish filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and comedian actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sandler moved to New Hampshire at the age of six where he lived until he graduated high school. Sandler then went back to New York to attend New York’s University Tish School of Arts where he graduated in 1988, then shortly after began his acting career. Sandler makes feel good movies, the type that don’t discriminate on the mood you’re in. His…

pages we can see how both Biff and Happy are not satisfied with the lives they have and do not know what they exactly want. We can notice that Biff has inherited his father’s weakness for which he is lost and is unsuccessful; but unlike Willy and Happy, he feels the urge to pursue the truth about himself. Both, his father and brother are not able to accept the pathetic lives they have, Biff accepts his failure and confronts it. Happy is more naturally successful, but he has lived in the shadow…