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    of big business also became the downfall‚ As time progressed in the 1890s to 1920s they used the problems to solve their problems they had Unity but also caused division. Later on from 1920 to 1945‚ America faced a change in conflict because of economics but also because of equality‚ From 1945 to the 1980s‚ there was a huge change in

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    Katie Merriman Stage to Screen 1/22/13 Death of a Salesman/You Can’t Take it With You Death of a Salesman opens with Willy Loman returning from a business trip. He is an older gentleman and it is apparent in the first few paragraphs of the play that he has some sort of problem. He talks to himself and has vivid flashbacks from when his children were younger (he interacts with them) and regretfully remembers when he refused to go to Alaska with his brother‚ who subsequently discovered a diamond

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    Arthur Miller’s drama Death of a Salesman is highly regarded as one of the best examples of a modern American play. Following the “certain private conversations” of the Loman family in New York‚ Death of a Salesman analyzes the detrimental aspects of pursuing the American dream while still retaining enough sentimental emotion to deliver a strong‚ heartfelt message on redemption. These and many other aspects of Miller’s play all culminate inside the main character‚ Willy Loman‚ in a way that makes

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    To what extent can Willy Loman be considered a tragic hero according to Aristotle’s rules? Arthur Miller presents his play ‘Death of a Salesman’ in the ancient form of a tragedy. Aristotle has defined his idea of the ‘perfect’ tragedy in his text‚ ‘Poetics’ (350 BC).Here he suggests that the protagonist must fall from an elevated social standing as a result of a “fatal flaw” within the character; the fall from the main character creates resolution to the play which is seen as just; finally‚ Aristotle

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    In Deaths of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman is a salesmen who is trying to achieve the American Dream just like everyone else in the world. In his head he believes to be this well liked and huge successful salesmen. In reality he is more of a self-conscious man who tries to live his fantasy he has in his head while being deceitful to not only himself but his own family as well. Throughout Death of a Salesman‚ Willy has several slogans that he attempts to live his life by. One of the main slogans we here

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    D Salinger and ‘Death of a Salesman’ by Arthur Miller are both texts that were written throughout this time of social‚ cultural‚ spiritual and economic metamorphosis. ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ through the portrayal of Holden Caulfield‚ explores an individual’s tumultuous tale throughout city living and teenage years of post WW2 America‚ hoping to find recognition‚ companionship and purpose‚ but falling short of their expectations of themselves. Likewise in ‘Death of a Salesman’‚ Willy Loman is

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    “The Glass Menagerie” and “The Death of a Salesman” In Tennessee William’s Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ the reader can see two characters who make their best effort to move on from their pasts. Biff and Tom both grudge the lives they feel cornered in‚ as if they were forced on them in the form of family responsibility; while Biff blames Willy‚ Tom blames Amanda. Both characters search for a way out from their sorrowful lives‚ often in the appearance of adventure‚ whether

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    considered "great"‚ and where does he seem a "low man". Do you agree that he is truly a modern tragic figure? Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy. A challenge to Philip Sydney’s judgement that "tragedy concerneth the high fellow" Death of a Salesman is the tragedy of the common man of the low-man. Many critics charge that Death of a Salesman falls short of tragedy and is therefore disqualified as a "great" play. Tragedy is developed as a form of drama

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    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 accept

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    stuck becoming something they don’t like or simply aren’t good at. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a son named Hamlet is trying to avenge his father’s death who was killed by his own brother who marries his wife. The father of Hamlet is old Hamlet who comes back as a ghost demanding his son to kill his uncle but to leave his mother alone.In Miller’s The Death of a Salesman the father Willy wants his oldest son Biff to become

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