Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman demoralizes the idea of this dream that everyone hopes to achieve. ... 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. ... Through the play Linda has shown she is the most toughest, and realistic character, maintaining herself and being the moral center of the play. ... Which is completely true, Willy was never meant to be a salesman. ... Charley and his son Bernard are the only two people beside Willy's family to attend the funeral and take any care into Willy'...

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(Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act 1). ... (Miller, Death of a Salesman). ... (Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act II). ... (Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act II). ... If these standards are applied to Miller's plays "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman," it is evident that their main characters are tragic heroes, and that they are considered tragedies in modern literature....

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Willy Loman: A Tragic Hero A tragic hero is a character exhibits traits of good moral, but possess a fatal flaw that brings upon his or her own downfall. In Arthur Miller's drama, Death of a Salesman, the protagonist and tragic hero, Willy Loman, although somewhat corrupted by material desires, is a man with good morals and noble qualities, but possesses a tragic flaw, which sees him to his inevitable downfall Though a seemingly unsuccessful and emotionally unstable character, Willy Loman has good noble qualities, a characteristic of a tragic hero. ... When he died "and by t...

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In Death of a Salesman, the central character, Willy Loman, suffers great misfortune due to his denial of reality. ... "I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! ... Like a tragedy should, there are uncontrollable elements that add to the misfortunes of the tragic protagonist in Death of a Salesman, and this event in which Biff discovers Willy's dishonesty is an example of this. ... While the uncontrollable force had been divine in Greek tragedies, political in Elizabethan tragedies, it seems that social environment and coincidence have replaced these in Death of a Sal...

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. ... By blinding himself Oedipus achieves a kind of ancillary death that deepens his suffering. ... Death of a Salesman In Miller's rendition of a tragedy, we see a much different kind of tragic protagonist. ... That final misbelief is almost worse than his death itself. ... In the case of Death of a Salesman, many people in that time period were going through hard times and had tragedies of their own. ...

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Some critics claim that the lead character in The Death of a Salesman, Willie Loman, can be classified as a tragic figure or hero. ... (Jacobs 1252-1253) Also, Webster's dictionary gives us the definition: A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. ... Arthur Miller examined the myth of the American dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth in his character Willie Loman. ... Arthur Miller&#x...

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Is Willy a tragic hero or merely a pathetic character? ... (Miller, Death 1916) "A lot of people think he's lost his --- balance." (Miller 1902) Only a pathetic character can lose his or her 'balance'. ... Only a pathetic character would do such a thing as suicide. ... The only thing that is enlightening is how pathetic his character really is. ...

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In Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Oedipus was a mythological character who experienced intense personal battles since the day he was born. ... On the other hand, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy worked towards his tragedy in a sense. ... Personally, I feel really bad for both characters but I would definitely lean more towards Oedipus as being more tragic because there was no way he was going to change something that he didn't even cause in the first place. ...

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