In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller this lens is supported in the American Dream. ... Characterization and Theme are used by Arthur Miller to support this lens. ... Miller chose the job of salesman carefully for his American Dreamer. ... Additionally, a salesman must sell his/her personality as much as his/her product. ... The lens, "Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good" is supported in the novel Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. ...

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In the play ˜Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller, the playwright focuses on the theme of failure in a success oriented society. ... ˜Death of a Salesman' uses many symbols to help develop the play. ... Diamonds symbolize Willy's failure as a salesman. ... In conclusion, the symbols used in ˜The Death of a Salesman,' help develop the context of the play. Arthur Miller's play depicts the struggles "The American Dream " brought to people, not only in the business world but also to their personal life. ...

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Themes and Morals of "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" captures the motions of life through the eyes of those who have lost their identity and sense of reality. ... The "American Dream", a universal and common theme among American literature, is very evident in "Death of a Salesman. ... "Death of a Salesman" offers many valuable morals as a result of its themes. ... "Death of a Salesman" presents and elaborates upon two extremely important morals that readers shall value. Although the characters in "Death of a Salesman" have good intentions, they falter....

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Death of a Salesman, the 1949 play by Arthur Miller, develops the ideas of conformity, popularity and materialism through repeating and contrasting elements. ... Miller mentions the idea of David Signleman to Willy several times throughout the play. ... During the 1940's when Miller wrote Death of a Salesman these values were very prominent during this time. ... Something that Miller portrayed very well through Death of a Salesman was the fact that acceptance is more important in life compared to popularity. ... Death of a Salesman conveys Millers intricate ideas of conformity, popularit...

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Willy's Useless Advice About Success Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a play that illustrates a family that lives in a dream world but ultimately comes into reality. ... Willy Loman, husband and the father of two sons, is a sixty-year-old, insecure traveling salesman. ... Unlike those who surround him, the old salesman fails to achieve the life he has always visualized. ... Using Loman as an example, the salesman never accomplished what he intended to by using his personality. ... The salesman is too driven by his needs of self-fulfillment to see the reality of life...

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("Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 Drama") The "American Dream" is "the belief that through the pioneer virtues of hard work, perseverance, ingenuity, and fortitude, one might find happiness through wealth" ("Death of a Salesman"). ... The concept of the American Dream shown in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is believed by Harold Clurman to be divided into two meanings; the historical dream and the business success dream. ... He devoted his life into a career as a salesman knowing that he was good with his hands, but he possessed to...

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Death of a Salesman Dreams are essential for living. ... In Arthur Millers" Death of a Salesman, the Lowman family gives new meaning to the concept of dreams, desires and escape from reality. ... Willy Lowman, an aging, downtrodden traveling salesman, has chosen to follow the classic American dream. ... How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I"d been a salesman for him! ...

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DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a tragedy, which comments on American life and values. ... "Death of a Salesman" has earned Miller a number of awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. ... Death of a Salesman could also have been named "Death of the American Dream" because it shows how Willy's dream come shattering in on him and eventually died. Whether reading or watching "Death of a Salesman", the audience can relate to the tragic hero, Willy Loman. ... (Miller 1515). ...

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Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman demoralizes the idea of this dream that everyone hopes to achieve. Miller is able to portray this dream through the delusional life of Willy Loman, a typical low income American trying to provide for his family. America in the late 19th century was experiencing an economical up rise, and Miller shows the effect of this on average individuals through Willy and his family. ... The play should be seen as a whole in which the life, and death of Willy Loman shows the faulty deception of this American Dream. ... Which is completely true, Willy was never mea...

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Eugene Ionesco and Arthur Miller present readers with examples of dreamers in "Rhinoceros" and "Death of a Salesman." ... Miller criticizes the American Dream and its value system by presenting the false image of reality that Willy Loman creates in his household. ... Subsequently, Arthur Miller creates a similar dreamer in his evaluation of the American Dream. ... Miller allows Loman to exist in a disturbed version of the American Dream. ... Miller writes in a realist fashion about a very distracted individual, Willy Loman. ...

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Miller, Hello and how are you Mr. Miller. ... I have read the play Death of a Salesman a number of times now, and never fail to find more new and meaningful motifs. ... There are several connections to the concept of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman. ...

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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, a salesman, has to confront failure in the success driven society of America. ... Arthur Miller shows us that the American Dream can be achieved, but those who hope to substitute popularity and lucky breaks for hard work are likely to fail. ...

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Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller believes that a common man can think, aspire, suffer: and that a common man can give his life for "his sense of human dignity." Willy Loman demonstrates such a notion. His main thought is of the American Dream. Because he knows that he is unsuccessful, Willy ...

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Arthur Miller's "death of a salesman" is a story of a man who tries to do things right as he sees them but is destined to fail from the outset. ... For this end Arthur Miller's lead character "Willy Loman" is designed to reflect the average man on the street, or the "Common man". ... Howard's response is to fire Willy, he tells Willy that he has been planing to fire him for a while because he is not as good salesman as he was. ... Miller does not allow Willy's character to be too "perfect", Willy is not a total victim, and he makes a typical mistake; "You know u ruined ...

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Death of a Salesman: The Tragic Anti-hero of Willy Loman "A hundred years from now, it will not matter what type of car I drove, or what kind of house I lived in, or the amount of money I made, yet the world might be changed because I made a positive difference in the life of a child." ... In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is a textbook example of a failure as a good father in every way mentioned previously. ... He will not allow himself to do what he truly loves to do, carpentry, because he believes that it is more illustrious to be an unsuccessful salesman than be a s...

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Several authors have attempted to capture the essence of the American Dream, but few have reached the status of Arthur Miller in his epic piece, Death of a Salesman. ... He considered Biff to be a salesman for Oliver, but in reality he was nothing more than a shipping clerk. ... When Willy states, "a man who can't handle tools is not a man," (44) he evidently reveals that he wasn't meant to be a salesman. ... He lived his life as a salesman, never realizing that he was going no where. Willy falsely believed that the only way to find success was by being a salesman, like his father, a...

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