Father Son Conflict in Death of a Salesman and All My Sons
Death of a Salesman:A Postmodernist Study
Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt to mirror the struggling modern characters who live in the world of postmodernism but are the slave of the preventive beliefs of modernism. This play is the story of all human beings who are in search of success, Love, Pride, and Ambition, but are oscillating between the modern and postmodern values. They find themselves disintegrated and isolated in the cruel language of postmodern and consumer world.
The study tries to show the entrapped modern man who finds the postmodern language weird and its values as resisting forces against the fossilized mtanarratives.
Key words: Miller; Death of a Salesman; Postmodernism; Metanarrative; Silence;
Binary oppositions
INTRODUCTIONThe study starts with a brief introduction of postmodernism, then it moves to a short analysis of Death of a Salesman focusing on the aspect of isolation, which is followed by a close study of the play in a postmodern bedrock, and finally the study comes to its conclusion by displaying the condition of the modern man trapped in a postmodern world.
POSTMODERNISM
“Postmodernism” is used to describe a wide gamut of aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, and philosophical goings-on. It is often also used to suggest, variously, an eclectic style, a historical period,
1 Assistant professor,Razi University,Faculty of Arts,English Department,Kermanshah, Iran.
E-mail: nhooti@yahoo.com.
2 MA, English Literature,Arak Azad University,Arak, Iran,
E-mail: honey_honey938@yahoo.com.
*Received 11 September 2010; accepted 15 November 2010.
Noorbakhsh Hooti; Farzaneh Azizpour/Studies in Literature and Language Vol.1 No.8,
2010
16 and a philosophical concept, as well as an anti-style, an atemporal event, and a non-concept. Often associated with deconstruction and poststructuralism, it is a term which undergoes uninterrupted redefinitions. In the visual arts and in
Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt to mirror the struggling modern characters who live in the world of postmodernism but are the slave of the preventive beliefs of modernism. This play is the story of all human beings who are in search of success, Love, Pride, and Ambition, but are oscillating between the modern and postmodern values. They find themselves disintegrated and isolated in the cruel language of postmodern and consumer world.
The study tries to show the entrapped modern man who finds the postmodern language weird and its values as resisting forces against the fossilized mtanarratives.
Key words: Miller; Death of a Salesman; Postmodernism; Metanarrative; Silence;
Binary oppositions
INTRODUCTIONThe study starts with a brief introduction of postmodernism, then it moves to a short analysis of Death of a Salesman focusing on the aspect of isolation, which is followed by a close study of the play in a postmodern bedrock, and finally the study comes to its conclusion by displaying the condition of the modern man trapped in a postmodern world.
POSTMODERNISM
“Postmodernism” is used to describe a wide gamut of aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, and philosophical goings-on. It is often also used to suggest, variously, an eclectic style, a historical period,
1 Assistant professor,Razi University,Faculty of Arts,English Department,Kermanshah, Iran.
E-mail: nhooti@yahoo.com.
2 MA, English Literature,Arak Azad University,Arak, Iran,
E-mail: honey_honey938@yahoo.com.
*Received 11 September 2010; accepted 15 November 2010.
Noorbakhsh Hooti; Farzaneh Azizpour/Studies in Literature and Language Vol.1 No.8,
2010
16 and a philosophical concept, as well as an anti-style, an atemporal event, and a non-concept. Often associated with deconstruction and poststructuralism, it is a term which undergoes uninterrupted redefinitions. In the visual arts and in