Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller

Do you think perception is reality? I do not think perception is reality. A lot of people perceive things that are not reality. Almost everyone sometimes perceives different things. Everyone has their own way of perceiving things and there are a lot of people in the world.

It will always be a challenge for humans to differentiate the illusion and the reality, it

The nineteen-thirties and forties were a very masculine dominated period. The father was the head of the home and most times his businesses were sent down to his children when he stops working. A strong relationship between a father and his children is very central to keeping a healthy home. Once the relationship begins to weaken, the entire family becomes unstable. Willy not having a strong father figure himself made him struggle with his personality and that led to him instilling the wrong values and causing a breach in his relationship with his sons. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman expresses how the bond between Willy Loman and his two sons produces the downfall of the Loman family.

The real world consists of all that is reality, which exists regardless if it is perceived it or not. For example, a person who was born blind has never seen color, but irrespective of the blind person seeing it or not, color still exists in the world. In contrast, the world as we know it is composed of what we perceive with our senses, which may vary from person to person. For example, for the person who was born blind and has never seen color, color would not be a part of their perceived world as it would for someone who has seen it. Although the blind person might have a notion of color, learned from others who can see color, the blind person would still have no direct experience of it as others who can see color do.

What is reality ? the dictionary will tell you, it is the state of being true or actual. Reality an entity, a person or an event, It can also be the totality of all things in existence.. Reality is not so simple to define. Reality is different for every person and their experiences, it is a definition open to interpretation.

I define reality as truth and that everything can happen whether it is good or bad, every scenario that is running through our mind about problems in life can happen. For me reality can be a happy truth or a sad truth. Reality is what is happening in real life, the problems and hardships that we have to deal with. And the reality is, that reality is part of our daily life and as a Christian I believed that the problems

In the text the author’s mention that we live in a world of two realities, Maxfield and Babbie categorize the two realities as experiential reality and agreement reality. The authors define “experiential reality as being the things we know from direct experience.(p.5)” For example if you were to step outside and snow was covering the ground you don’t need anyone to tell you that it’s cold outside. And if you stepped on a nail you would know that it hurts without someone having to tell you. We know these things because these are the things we experience first hand. Agreement reality on the other hand is defined as “the things we consider real because we’ve been told they’re real, and everyone else seems to agree they are real (p.5)”. Ideas that

Perception can be a tricky thing, however for just a direct answer, I believe perception is not reality at all times. People do not always percieve things from the same point of view. We all think and see thing differently. Sometimes after we sit back and revaluuate a situation we realize our perception was wrong, for example, many people think first impressions are everything, they believe what you see is what you get, when you first meet another person. When we take the chance to get to know the person, we may soon realize how wrong our perception was of that person. There are many many variables that play into perception and reality.

Reality, what is it? What defines it? And most importantly where is it? We accept that we live in the state of real existence daily and we do this through empiricism, or in other words we experience the world through our senses. The world presents a picture to us, one that can be felt, has a scent, leaves a taste in our mouth, and can be heard loud and clear. Or, at least it did. Our modernity, the very thing that is represented to us as the universal connector has falsely portrayed what is actually happening to the world. Technology has murdered reality in what will be known as the biggest show on earth, the spectacle of the

Reality is in some sense dictated by our beliefs and our environment. Before moving on, I need to differentiate between Truth and Reality. There can be many realities, but there is One Truth. For example, to those who are plugged into the Matrix and not yet aware of it, the Matrix is reality. However, the Truth is that they are serving as a 120V battery in a pod full of green slime. If I am anorexic, then I see myself as overweight; that becomes my reality. The Truth is that I am gradually starving myself to death.

Arthur Miller, the author of the play Death of as salesman and many others, was born in New York in the year 1915. He later attended the University of Michigan which is where he started writing plays. He wrote many plays such as The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass. Miller died in the year 2005. The play Death of a salesman was written in 1949, the year of American largest economic expansion. This play is about a salesman named Willy Loman who seems to have a mental illness who has a wife, Linda Loman, and two sons, Biff and Happy Loman. Willy has a distorted sense of moral values and passes them on to his sons. He teaches his sons that to be successful you have to be a well-liked person. Throughout the play the reader can see that being a salesman is not the job Willy is qualified for which does not help his family’s financial deficit. In the play, Death of a Salesmen, Arthur Miller uses the characters, symbolism, and the structure of the play represents the theme of lacking awareness of reality.

In Buddhism reality is what we perceive it to be, we use our senses and through our body and it can create false perceptions arising from individual karma. Our reality is created from what we believe it to be through experiences and what we build our reality upon. When we are mislead by illusions around us such as appearances then we create a false reality and do not see the universe as clearly. The universe is based off of reincarnation and in each life we learn a different reality through the new eyes of perception we are given. Our life experiences with others and nature can create a false illusion of reality if we do not keep an open mind to something beyond what we can see. If you apply this to your own life you realize how much your

Reality is difficult to define, though it is usually perceived as the state of things as they are, as opposed to other abstract ideas. In the Matrix, the main character Neo, who has always questioned his reality, realises that the truth and reality is far beyond his imagination and reality as he knows it to be. The Matrix explores the questions ‘what actually exists?’ and ‘what is real?’ through the two worlds Neo finds himself in, as the Matrix is not as it seems. This is also the case with Cypher realising the power in knowledge. It also explores the components of ignorance being bliss, as what you don’t know is potentially for the better. Which leads to reality in 2015, with promotion, false truths

Our reality as it stands is the tangible part of our lives, the people we see daily, the situations that arise daily, and our reactions to these things, all make up our normal daily reality.

Plato’s Forms and the “Myth of the Cave” are the best ways to explain the concept of reality. The idea that there are two different worlds and two realities that have only one thing in common with each other is the way that the individual precieves the world around