Oedipus, Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello "or Willy Loman. ... Gradually, the audience members become Willy Loman, and his struggle becomes their own struggle. ... Willy Loman is incapable of discerning what is real from what is not. ... Willy Loman speaks not of "success," so much as of being "well liked" (Miller 1324). ... He knows our lower middle class as few others do, and Willy Loman is his supreme character creation. ...

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In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman struggles to find success and be the role model that his sons look up to him as. ... Witt explains that "Miller himself has created a very big ad for the dysfunctional Willy Loman and its effect is not altogether unlike the effect of the Hastings refrigerator ad on Willy Loman " (Witt 213). ... Witt, though, misses Miller's purpose for Willy Loman. ... To begin with, after getting home from work, Willy and Linda are discussing Willy's position within his company. ... Willy's suicide is the ultimate act of anti-...

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Miller's paradigm was Willy Loman a common man who experienced tragedy through wealth. ... Oedipus and Willy Loman were both significant tragic heroes with different cases of tragedy. Out of the two, Willy Loman would have to be less tragic because Willy chose the tragedy he suffered. Willy Loman had the wrong aspirations since the beginning. ... Opposite of Willy Loman, Oedipus did not choose his own tragedy. ...

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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. ... - In this conversation with...

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Willy Loman is constantly trying to figure out where his life went wrong, but denies that he has actually failed. ... The two protagonists, Willy Loman and Okonkwo, in addition are ready to lay down their life to secure their personal dignity. In Willy Loman's case, he feels he has only a very small amount of dignity left and the only option to preserve that is to end his life. ... The third element of Arthur Miller's definition of a tragic hero that is exemplified by Willy Loman and Okonkwo is attempting to gain their rightful place in society. ... The characters of Willy Loman ...

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Willy as Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman who, in the course of a single day, comes to realise that the American Dream, which he has pursued for 40 years, has failed him. ... Willy Loman is, for Miller, the antithesis of the classic tragic hero. ... There are other flaws in Willy Loman that lead to his demise. ... Willy Loman despite his desperate searching through his past Willy does not achieve the self-realisation or self-knowledge typical of the tragic hero. ... The failure of the Loman Brothers (parti...

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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. ... 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. Willy Loman's tragic flaw comes from the fact that he misinterpreted the American Dream, the belief that anyone can rise from rags to riches. ... Linda Loman cannot believe her husband is dead. ... Willy Loman's false interpretation of the American Dream is what fueled his delusional thinking. ...

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John Proctor and Willy Loman: The Tragedies of Two Common Men Are John Proctor and Willy Loman common men? ... Both John Proctor and Willy Loman share this fear, and both regard their reputations in society very highly. ... Willy Loman lives in a fantasy world where he believes that he is extremely successful and loved by all. ... Because John Proctor and Willy Loman regard their reputations and dignity so highly and fear the possibility of these qualities being degraded, they are considered common men. ... I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!"...

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In looking at the characteristics of the tragic hero, it can be see that Willy Loman is not a tragic hero but a victim of a false idealistic pursuit of the "American Dream". ... Willy Loman, was never really of noble stature, as was summed up by Linda, the person who knew him best. " Willy Loman never made a lot of money. ... Willy Loman is an example of the middle class man caught as a victim of society where the odds are against him, a "has-been". ... Willy puts their situation into context when he exclaims, " I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!" ... Perhaps the most obvious departure...

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Willy Loman is the protagonist of Dealth of a salesman. ... I am Willy Loman and you are Biff Loman. ... So when Biff tries to make Willy face the truth, Willy become furious. ... ''I'm not leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.I'am one dollar an hour, Willy! ... Biff had accepted Willy values all his life.So at last Biff furious complain about Willy. ...

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In Death of a Salesman, the central character, Willy Loman, suffers great misfortune due to his denial of reality. ... Willy has picked it up and gives it to him.' ... (Miller 131) With his lies about Biff's success that the entire Loman family came to believe, Willy is in great part responsible for Biff's failure and therefore the failure of his future as well. ... This incident is also the beginning of a conflict between Willy and Biff that breaks apart the Loman family in the sense that Willy no longer has a secure place in the family as a father. ... Despite these uncontr...

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The key difference between the tragic heroes in each example is Oedipus was a King, a figure of nobility, and Willy was an average man. ... We again, gain an emotional connection to Willy Loman because he is from the same walk of life as many of us. ... Arthur Miller's describes how Willy is a tragic hero in a modern sense in his "Tragedy of the Common Man". ... " Just like Oedipus but in a different sense, we pity Willy as we learn of his state of mind leading up to his suicide. ... What's sad is that Willy doesn't. ...

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In Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, he takes a low position family and exposes the idea of tragic heroes through the fatal flaws of Willy and Biff Loman. Willy, a traveling salesman, is the father of Biff. ... Willy's tragic flaw is false pride. ... This makes Biff realize that Willy cannot accept reality. ... Biff and Willy both have their flaw of false pride. ...

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Furthermore, from online research, writer found some essays about tragic hero entitled An Essay on Whether Willy Loman in Death of A Salesman is Truly A Tragic Hero or Not (2004, January 17). This online essay was written by tigerdolphin in WriteWork.com (retrieved 01:42 PM, June 11, 2014, from http://www.writework.com/essay/essay-whether-willy-loman-death-sales-man-truly-tragic-her). This essay discusses about the truth whether Willy Loman is a tragic hero or not. It also has further explanation about hamartia from Aristotle's perspective and how his criterion fulfilled by Willy Loman. ...

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