Examine at Least Three Dramatic Devices Used by Any Two of the Playwrights Studied in the Course and Discuss Their Effectiveness in Terms of Audience Response and/or Plot Development 1200-1500 Words Oedipus Rex and Death of a Salesman

Chosen Plays: Death of a Salesman and Oedipus Rex This essay will not be focusing on the entire play but three dramatic devices use by the two playwrights and in terms of the audience response. Arthur Miller is known as one of the best writers of the post war era and Great depression through his experience with his life at the time, complied some challenging, intriguing work.Biography.com writes “Arthur Miller was an American playwright whose biting criticism of societal problems defined his genius. His best known play is Death of a Salesman”. Death of a Salesman the title alone gives everything away. The play is entirely filled with lots of element and device such as plot, spectacle, irony and tragedy this is the work of a great piece of work. We will pay attention to plot, irony and tragedy in the play. The play triumphs in keeping the reader and by extension the audience’s attention and intrigue. Taking a scene from the play Act one.
Willy while playing a game of cards with his friends Charley, Willy mind wander off to his dead brother Ben. We will take the scene after Linda speaks to him about pawning his watch and he exits, in slippers, to take a walk. Throughout this scene many thing are revealed. I will pay attention to plot that is reveal in this scene.Plot, according to the Poetics of Aristotle, is the first principle and the soul of tragedy. In this scene the focus is on the complexity of the plot. According the Poetics the things that make a tragedy complex are reversal of situation, Recognition and the scene of suffering (Butcher). We can see the plot in this scene when Biff father mental state to worsen since he return and the financial state of the household is not concreted. Willy is dying and lastly believe that he is trying to kill himself. Firstly through the little interaction with his father Biff knows that his mind is not well. It is revealed to him by his mother that it gets worse when Biff indicates the he is coming

Cited: Arthur Miller. Biography.com 18 Oct 2012. http://www.biography.com/people/arthur-miller-9408335 Sophocles . About .com.Ancient/Classical History http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sophocles/p/Sophocles.htm Arthur Miller. “Death of a Salesman”. Script. Sophocles “Oedipus Rex”.Script