The, Death Of A Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller and is about the tumultuous life of Willy Loman. Willy is a salesman that lives in New York who travels all over the eastern half of the country selling his products. Though it seems Mr. Loman is in a great position in life, he faces many problems in the play that ultimately result in his demise. Throughout the play it’s evident that despite all that has transpired in his life, happiness eludes him which bombards him into a deteriorated state of mind. Even though play made by Miller is fiction, it manages to stay realistic and shine a light on real issues that many people face today. This play is detailed and accurately pinpoints the struggles that some of the characters have to endure

People have different identities because they all make their own over the course of their lives. Identity development is the outcome of different experiences and situations people encounter throughout their lives. Views, beliefs, activities, and conflicts have an impact on how individuals form their identities. People go through life trying to recognize their character traits, the act of which leads them to their identities, but over time can lose the identities they have through society, through a marriage, or through one’s own self. Willy Loman, a delusional salesman, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Minnie Wright, an unhappy and lonely housewife, in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles; and Oedipus, a king with excessive pride and

Here Willy actually brings up the death of a salesman and what it’s supposed to be like. According to him it’s supposed to be a huge event and that hundreds would be in attendance at the funeral. This is the way that Willy lives because of how far he’s decieved his own mind. He’s decieved himself into thinking that he was a well liked salesman and that he will die the death of a well liked salesman. It contradicts the way the he actually dies and that at his funeral no one came. Using Willy’s logic it could becuase he was fired from his salesmans position and is no longer entitled to the salesman funeral.

As the play’s titular character in Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is viewed by many as the definitive modern tragic hero of modern literature. He is a man struggling to gain upward mobility in a society designed to keep him in the trenches. The classic idea of a tragic hero is an important person who falls from a lofty seat in life. Willy, however, is just a common man trying to get to a place he can fall from. According to Arthur Miller, a tragic hero need not be a king or anyone of high rank. What’s important is the existence of the character’s “tragic flaw”, out of which creates the need to resist anything the character would consider a force attacking their being. Miller outlined the tragic flaw as a quality of a character that leaves them unable to accept anything that would affect or alter his/her status or self-image. While this flaw can create the tragic nature of a character, it does not necessarily create a tragic hero out a character. Willy Loman, though perhaps a tragic character, is not a tragic hero because he does not display the characteristic traits or actions associated with heroism.

Arthur Miller is considered one of the best playwrights of the 20th century. The most known pieces are All My Sons, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17, 1915, he was the son of polish immigrants. Miller graduated from high school in New York in 1933, he had worked at variety of including hosting a radio program. Miller wrote plays for the Federal Theatre in 1939. In The Federal Theatre it provided work for the unemployed writers, actors, directors, and designers. Millers career did not start off great it was a little rough. Miller worked in a small building that he built in Roxbury, Connecticut. Miller wrote the first act of Death

Death of a Salesman deals with a struggling salesman, Willy, who fails to achieve his twisted version of the American Dream that he desires so greatly. His pride, his stubbornness, and his misplaced values cause tension in his family and create a divide between his sons and him that cannot be mended. Biff, Willy’s eldest son, struggles to find himself in a world full of possibility. The story focuses on the decline of Willy and the drama that the Loman family faces. As the story progresses, Willy tries to succeed in business and when he continually fails, he then puts the pressure on his sons to succeed where he could not. Throughout it all, Willy’s wife, Linda, stays loyal and selfless, serving her husband despite his cruel words. In the end,

In Arthur Miller’s Death Of a Salesman willy is a man who craves attention and who is regulated by a desire of success. He is an aging man who is a father and a husband. But he is somewhat troubled and scary at points in the play. His wife Linda is loving and supportive and thinks positively of her husband, he has two sons Biff and Happy. Willy is very appreciative of Biff but is also angry at him because he did not succeed and is lazy. Happy on the other hand is not really anything, willy does not pay attention to him even when happy is trying to show his father that he is great and is not lazy like Biff.

As though to recreate the connection in life, literature often shows the relationship between past events and a character’s present actions and values. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Willy is haunted by memories of his older brother, father, and salesman Dave Singleman. Willy’s character and values are constantly influenced by the memory of the three men, compounding upon his deliria throughout the play. Willy considers these men the epitome of success, thus explaining his dependency on all three. Miller’s view on society, men, and the success of the American Dream are portrayed through Willy’s interactions with the men. The American Dream is synonymous with the phrase “the world is your oyster,” but Miller uses Death of a Salesman to criticize the American Dream through Willy Loman and his interplay between the past and present.

The father of the family, Willy Loman, has been in a quest for self-­‐realization his whole life. His denial to admit his failure leads him to create his own reality and to project his desire of greatness to his children. Due to this context, Willy is unable to consider his real achievements such as his house that he finished reimbursing and his family.

Both the authenticity and the purity of the American Dream have been put into question by various pieces of literature, such as the Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, or even the modern classic American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. With specific regard to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the death of the American Dream is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway as he watches America’s morality and virtue disintegrate before him. The American Dream is supposed to represent the ideal that every U.S. citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. With that being said, the failure of the American Dream in the novel is epitomized by the lack of equality, moral values, and the ultimate demise of both Gatsby and the dreams for which he represented.

Back in the 19th centuries, women and men don’t have the equal right with men in the old society because of the patriarchal system. A patriarchal system is a concept to differentiate men and women’s power. In this concept, men are always primary and the society more focus on men’s right and their benefit and women are men’s appendant. In the play of “A Dolls House,” by Henrik Ibsen from Norway and established during 1879. The play is about the protagonist Nora from loving and trusting her husband, to finally rupturing their relationship and at the end, Nora left the house.

“A Doll’s House” written by Henrik Ibsen marked an era of strong women eager to make a change. It is said that women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. As Nora lives under the rule of her husband, she commences a plan of her own to save her marriage. A woman willing to step aside from a man’s shadow is a woman that can undoubtedly conquer the world, but will overcome many obstacles.

A Doll’s House is a modern prose drama written by Henrik Ibsen. It tells the story of a women who breaks free from an oppressive society of men. It takes place in a European town in the late nineteenth century. In the book the women are suffocated by men to the extent where they are merely house wives. This begs the question that women were held back by men due to the gender stereotypes of the late nineteenth century. It can be inferred that women were stripped of the chance to accomplish anything beyond their prescribed gender duties, which made societal progress difficult, but not impossible.

In Victorian England, women were expected to be undoubtedly obedient to their fathers, and later in life, servile to their husbands as well. They were normally forbidden to pursue a real education, and would often “devote themselves to their husbands' happiness” (Roland 10). Throughout history, women have had to make sacrifices for other people's feelings and lives. They have given up their own lives, freedoms, education, and careers due to their concern for others. A concurrent injustice occurs in Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House. The play's characters, motifs, and symbols support it's theme; the sacrifices and decisions pushed onto women by society have hampered them from pursuing their own lives, but there is hope to overcome it.

A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, tells the tale of Nora and her struggles throughout the play. And the setting has a key factor with the entire play because it takes place in a nineteenth century Norwegian village. The cultural context for women, like Nora, was completely different for men during the century. The domestic lifestyle was a key context in the play that highlighted problems that women faced during the time period. The roles of women and marriage and divorce are the context that the play uses to shine light at the avenge woman’s domestic life.