DOASM
- Created by: kyazze
- Created on: 27-04-18 08:54
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- DOASM
- Historical Context
- Failure
- Willy is a man who is crushed by his failures
- Responsible for the failures of his sons
- encourages poor behaviour from biff and ignores happy
- e.g. the revelation of Biff in the hotel room
- His inability too keep a stable job due to pride
- Nostalgia
- Willy is nostalgic for the optimism of his younger dayS
- Willy’s biggest senses of sadness is that he never fulfilled his promise.
- Miller uses the device of flashbacks and hallucinations to emphasise Willy’s longing for the past
- Willy’s sense of longing for the past is also the source of guilt
- wishes he could go back in time and start again
- Link to Lamia and her guilt of exposure- thus the death of lycius
- Hypocrisy
- Based on his artificaly- inability to keep up with his own lies
- Willy comments on Biff being a ‘hard worker’, having previously called him ‘a lazy bum’.
- Willy’s relationship with Biff in particular is based on a seeming hypocrisy
- Betrayal
- Biffs inability to fulfill the dream that Willy set out for him
- Biff does not allow Willy to sell to him the American dream
- Willy betrayal towards Biff- hotel scene affair
- Le bell dame sans mercie- Farey child leves him in a limbic condition
- Isabella's Brothers go behind her back and kill her lover
- American dream
- Central idea within American society
- Historical Context
- Connected to becoming wealthy and the ability to achieve everything if one works hard enough for it
- Link to Isabella's brothers and their corrupted industrial work
- Nostalgia
- Willy is nostalgic for the optimism of his younger dayS
- Willy’s biggest senses of sadness is that he never fulfilled his promise.
- Miller uses the device of flashbacks and hallucinations to emphasise Willy’s longing for the past
- Willy’s sense of longing for the past is also the source of guilt
- wishes he could go back in time and start again
- Link to Lamia and her guilt of exposure- thus the death of lycius
- Artificiality
- Everything in Willy’s life is shown to be artificial
- The core aspects of Willy’s life are built on artificiality and lies
- His personality is based on ‘being liked’, which is about appearing to be nice
- flashbacks and hallucinations that Willy has are testament to this artificiality
- It is here that his fake world is breached
- Willy’s life and death are both rooted in deception
- hallucinations are based on real events, which juxtapose with the world of lies he has created
- Link to Lamia - Appearance vs reality
- Lamia’s beauty is superficial and destructive
- the illusion created by Lamia collapsess under cold scrutiny
- Hypocrisy
- Based on his artificaly- inability to keep up with his own lies
- Willy comments on Biff being a ‘hard worker’, having previously called him ‘a lazy bum’.
- Willy’s relationship with Biff in particular is based on a seeming hypocrisy
- Betrayal
- Biffs inability to fulfill the dream that Willy set out for him
- Biff does not allow Willy to sell to him the American dream
- Willy betrayal towards Biff- hotel scene affair
- Le bell dame sans mercie- Farey child leves him in a limbic condition
- Isabella's Brothers go behind her back and kill her lover
- Abandonment
- Willy’s father leaves him and Ben when Willy is very young, leaving
- develops a fear of abandonment, which makes him want his family to conform to the American Dream.
- Link to La bell dame sans merci
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