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    Arthur Millers play “Death of a Salesman” is a well-recognized drama‚ yet it has been controversial due to the ethnicity of the actors performing it. Critic John Lahr believed that Millers play “Death of a Salesman” could not be preformed by black actors. This is a play with universal themes‚ such as the “American Dream”‚ but the American Dream was different for African Americans back then‚ than what it is today in modern society. In the Hard Sell “A black Death of a Salesman” August Wilson argues

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    Nadia Fayad English 91 First draft title This play is real to life ‚and shows us a man struggling to have that American dream. Death of A Sales Man is about a salesman’s ‚Willy Loman that is trying to suicide the American dream At the age of sixty-three Willy loman has lost control of his life or he’s relationship with his older son biff. Willy’s betrayal of cheating on is wife Linda ‚and him loosing biff had lead him to suicide

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    Miller’s “Death of a Salesman“ is a play illustrating the life of a man wanting success but takes his life for his family to be financially stable. At the story’s heart is a tragic depiction of the protagonist‚ a man who wants to be successful‚ who wants his kids to be successful‚ he wants to live the American dream. Miller balances the literary devices of of flashbacks‚ motifs‚ conflicts and characterization to perceive the cost of the American Dream. Willy Loman’s idea of the American dream is

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    keeps saying that he has only a few minutes or that he has to catch a train. He is always on the move while Willy remains still. Alaska‚ Africa‚ American West Death of a Salesman takes place primarily within the confined landscape of the Lomans’ home. This narrow‚ and increasingly narrowing setting is contrasted with the vastness of the American West‚ Alaska‚ and Africa. If the Lomans’ home symbolizes restriction‚ both physical and mental‚ distant locations symbolize escape‚ freedom‚ and the

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    9. Linda is a multidimensional wife because she continues to defend Willy when he treats her like she is worthless. However‚ Linda suffers from her treatment but she does not make a big deal about it and continues to support Willy and her children. She defends Willy and supports him through financial issues. She also brings the family together and is the back-bone of the family. No matter how she is treated she continues to be supportive. 10. Willy is conqueror of the New England territories which

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    Archetype Death of a Sales Man SITUATIONAL ARCHETYPES The Journey - Willy must go and discover job opportunities to restore fertility into his house hold‚ he also descends into a mental‚ the flashbacks‚ and real hell‚ being fired‚ in order to discover his faults. The Fall - Willy was once a very successful salesman‚ his children looked up to him and even had a woman on the side. Just like any hero‚ Willy is soon "expelled" from his paradise‚ such as being fired. Unhealable Wound - Willy’s ability

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    The False Hope of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman The American Dream is something every American family strives to achieve some families push too hard to get to the place where they feel that they have achieved this dream; this is the case in the life of the Lomen family. The Lomen’s are the typical American family in the 1940’s. Willy and his wife Linda are a middle class family with two sons named Biff and Happy. Willy is an ageing traveling salesman that is struggling to

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    Death Of A Salesman The play ’Death Of A Salesman’‚ the brainchild of Arthur Miller was transformed and fitted to the movie screen in the year 1986. The play itself is set in the house of Willy Loman‚ and tells the melancholy story of a salesman whom is in deep financial trouble‚ and the only remedy for the situation is to commit suicide. In the stage production of this tale‚ the specific lighting‚ set‚ and musical designs really give the story a strong undertow of depression. And logically the

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    Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy Death of a Salesman is rife with tension regarding the protagonist‚ Willy Loman‚ a salesman eluded and deluded by the American Dream. The play follows Miller’s reworking of the Aristotelian hero in the final twenty-four hours of his life. Willy’s obsession with his Dream and all associated with it – personal attractiveness‚ business success and family success – all fail him in this painful examination of consumerism and the American Dream. His destructive insecurity

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    turn around. If an engineer never sits down to look at the faults in their prototype and redesign it based on its weaknesses‚ then they will never make anything out of it. In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller a hard working businessman lives a stressful life chasing after the irrational quest to die the death of a salesman. Abandoned at a young age‚ Willy Loman was not born into an ideal situation‚ and with his lack of guidance he formulated his own‚ immature morals which he would center his entire

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