DEATH OF A SALESMAN Study Guide for Teachers World-Class Theatre in the Heart of Vermont 703 Main Stre e t ‚ W eston‚ V T 05161 www.westonplayhouse.o rg The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company The 2010 WPTC Teacher’s Workshop and the School Matinee and Touring Production is made possible in part by grants from: The Bay and Paul Foundations Mountain Room Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Shubert Foundation The Vermont Country Store and The Orton Family Vermont Humanities Council
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------------------------------------------------- Chapter 9 Turning Point Activity; Chapter 9 marks a turning point in the novel. Up to now‚ Tom’s adventures have been play and make-believe. In the scene at the graveyard‚ he and Huck witness real evil. Tom is forced to make life or death decisions. Analyze this chapter‚ addressing such questions as the following: How does Twain create the frightening atmosphere in the graveyard? To what senses does he appeal? How does he use foreshadowing – clues planted by author that point to events to come
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Death of a Salesman is considered to be a great piece of American literature because it is a play of an ordinary man’s struggle to leave his mark upon the world. Willy Loman‚ the play’s central character‚ is often considered to be its’ ‘tragic hero’. The salesman grows increasingly disillusioned throughout the course of the play to the point where he eventually takes his own life. Willy’s life is a never-ending dream where he tries to persuade himself and others that he and his sons are successful
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Arthur Miller ’s moving and powerful play‚ "Death of a Salesman"‚ Miller uses many character to contrast the difference between success and failure within the system. Willy is the dreamy salesman whose imagination is much larger than his sales ability‚ while Linda is Willy ’s wife who stands by her husband even in his absence of realism. Biff and Happy are the two blind mice who follows in there father ’s fallacy of life‚ while Ben is the only member of the Loman family with that special something needed
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2011 Term Paper #1 Death of a Salesman: An American Tragedy A greek tragedy is a story that involves a character with a tragic flaw that eventually causes and leads to their downfall. A tragic hero‚ according to Aristotle‚ is one who comes from a high background‚ with a high status and noble‚ valuable characteristics. The hero will eventually fall due to their tragic flaw‚ and will come to a tragic realization of the error of their ways during this process. Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller is
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Hamlet basically shrugs and walks away. With Polonius dead‚ Ophelia begins to act crazy and now Hamlet’s life is starting to change. This is a turning point for Hamlet. Until this point‚ Hamlet has been scared of murder‚ and now he just murdered Polonius not thinking about it. Does this mean there is a dark side to Hamlet? It is hard to tell because at this point in the play‚ Hamlet has been acting crazy on purpose. He is trying to murder Claudius and by acting crazy‚ there will be a better excuse for
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Othello and Desdemona‚ also of a man called Cassios promotion over him. It is iago who conjures up a plan to deceive‚ mislead and ultimately destroy O. Act III Scene III is where Iago’s plan really begins. This scene has been known as the “turning point” of the play‚ or as the “temptation scene”‚ and could be argued to be the most important scene in the whole play. In it Iago speaks carefully and at length with Othello‚ and subtly plant the seed of suspicion and jealousy in his mind. It is this
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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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playing a key role for the duration of most literary pieces. According to Arthur Miller’s novel‚ Death of a Salesman‚ the interaction of Willy and his sons‚ Happy and Biff‚ shows that family ties usually are connected either physically or emotionally in some way or another. Willy Loman is just like every father in a father/son bond‚ yet all he wants is to be a part of his son’s life. Even though Biff and Happy admire and have so much love for their father when they are younger‚ later down the road
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Critical Response: Death of a Salesman The lives of the Loman’s from beginning to end seems troubling‚ the play is centered on trying to be successful or trying to be happy‚ and the sacrifice which must be made of one to achieve the other. The environment that these characters live in encourages them to pursue the American dream‚ which can be said to devalue happiness through the pursuit of material success. Death of A Salesman written by Arthur Miller has several themes that run through the play
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