DEATH OF A SALESMAN - A LEVEL MINDMAP
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- Created on: 06-05-22 11:45
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
- CONTEXT
- Tragedy for the common man
- ready to lay down his life to secure one thing - his sense of personal dignity
- terror comes from the total examination of the "unchangeable"
- American Dream
- Post War America
- Rationing continued
- Mental health + family strain
- Capitalism/ Consumerism
- post war consumerist boom
- Women
- contrast of work in war and post war housewife
- Marylin Monroe - pin up girl
- Personal
- uncle committed suicide
- maried to Marylin Monroe - contrast to poor childhood
- Accused of having communist sympathies
- The Crucible - Salem witch trials - appearance vs reality and societal darkness
- reception
- "im sorry that Biff is not a weightier counter balance to willy's dispair" 1950 AM.
- Tragedy for the common man
- TRAGEDY
- Meglopsychia
- Hubris
- Myopia
- Hamartia
- Perepeteia
- Anagnorisis
- Catharsis
- Identity
- Madness
- PLOT
- PART 1
- EP 1
- home from trip. fear of crash. get job in NY. biff+ happy home - lost.
- EP 2
- boys room - girls + lives, biff - outdoor. hap - dissatisfied with work wants to marry. hear willy
- EP 3
- PAST - red Chevvy - idolise willy, money trouble, woman laugh in Boston - jump to biff bad behaviour.
- EP 4
- Charlie + cards + job. Ben + missed opp. + garden + diamonds. 2 convos. - ben leaves
- EP 5
- Willy in garden - Linda tells off boys. car suicide + pipe + biffs relationship. Biff stay + get job
- EP 6
- willy inside - aggro to biff. Hap business - optimism - bill loan - job in NY. biff takes pipe.
- EP 1
- PART 2
- EP 7
- Brek. biff - bill. willy - advance + job. out for meal. linda rings biff - no pipe - biff took it.
- EP 8
- Howard's office - work in NY - dosen't need him - angry.
- EP9
- calm down in office - ben - take care of Alaska - Linda says no. future of biff - football game + Bernard. ben - rich new place. willy do it here - charley not impressed.
- EP10
- charley's office. Barnard a lawyer. willy asks about biffs success change. B says Boston - willy angry, C offers job - W says no. only friend.
- EP11
- chop house - H flirt. Biff took pen - b tell truth and hap lies to willy - cuts to failed maths + laugh. biff says tube. leave.
- EP 12
- bathroom - Boston + woman - biff finds out + leaves. Stanley walks in and helps with seeds.
- EP 13
- home - Linda tells off boys. ben + willy outside. ben - insurance+ funeral - biff tells the truth. Willy gets in car. Funeral tableaux.
- EP 7
- REQUIEM
- Happy, Biff, Linda, Charley + Bernard - nobody came - wrong dreams hap win it. Linda free - mortgage.
- PART 1
- CHARACTERS
- Biff
- Willy
- Linda
- Happy
- Charley
- Bernard
- Ben
- Bill Oliver
- Dave Singleman
- Letta + Miss Forsythe
- The Woman
- Howard
- THEMES
- Madness
- Identity
- Nostalgia
- American Dream
- Betrayal/Abandonment
- Gender
- Growth
- motifs/symbols
- seeds
- growth / lack of - feeling of being suffocated by industry - not able to provide - toxic masculinity
- stockings
- Hamartia - woman - guilt and repression
- you gave her mammas stockings!
- i wont have you mending stockings in this house
- Hamartia - woman - guilt and repression
- diamonds
- represent tangible success + so willy's failure and missed opportunities
- rubber pipe
- represents impending death + stigma around mental health and suicide
- trophy
- "silver trophy"
- representative of Willy's hopes for Biff's future - living out his failure in his son
- watch/time
- representative of impending death - a count down to the title event
- representative of abandonment - ben does not have time for willy
- seeds
- AO2
- episodes
- allow blurring of past, present real and imagined to create structural ambiguity that drives willy's personal confusion
- one set/walls
- no scene changes - all in one set
- walk through walls in episodes
- representative of blured reality and imagination?
- representative of our psychoanaylisis of willy - we walk through his thoughts
- moral ambiguity -of capitalism - of Linda's passivity - of suicide
- music/lighting
- " a melody is played upon a flute ... telling of grass and trees and the horizon"
- "angry glow of orange"
- the surroundings become covered with leaves
- seed bed + grave
- use of motifs
- motifs/symbols
- seeds
- growth / lack of - feeling of being suffocated by industry - not able to provide - toxic masculinity
- stockings
- Hamartia - woman - guilt and repression
- you gave her mammas stockings!
- i wont have you mending stockings in this house
- Hamartia - woman - guilt and repression
- diamonds
- represent tangible success + so willy's failure and missed opportunities
- rubber pipe
- represents impending death + stigma around mental health and suicide
- trophy
- "silver trophy"
- representative of Willy's hopes for Biff's future - living out his failure in his son
- watch/time
- representative of impending death - a count down to the title event
- representative of abandonment - ben does not have time for willy
- seeds
- motifs/symbols
- cyclicality
- fatality of hope/ following am dream
- Ill show them Willy Loman did not die in vain
- echoes machine of capitalism
- Dante's seven circles of hell
- fatality of hope/ following am dream
- setting
- "towering angular shapes"
- "fragile-seeming home"
- voice
- Woman's laughter - not on stage detathed and invasive
- The Woman laughs offstage
- Ben enters before we hear him - prompted by " don't call me disgusting will" - first looks at his watch dosn't have time or words for willy
- Woman's laughter - not on stage detathed and invasive
- time - over 24 hours
- significant - ironic temporary life and permanence of death
- episodes
- CONTEXT
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