Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman 1915-2005

Background Info Born in NYC First success in 1947—All My Sons Wrote Death of a Salesman—1948 Married with two children at the time

Background Info 1950—Fell in love with Marilyn Monroe (eventually married and then divorced) 1953—Wrote The Crucible, Tony Award winning play (witch hunts and McCarthy hearings…got him into some trouble!) Wrote into the late 80s

Death of a Salesman First performed on Broadway in 1949 Immediate success with American audiences Won Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award

Death of a Salesman Ran for 742 performances before it closed One of the most performed and adapted plays in American theatrical history There has never been a time when D of S was not being performed somewhere in the world!

Death of a Salesman Tackles universal questions about the nature of happiness Questions the capitalist American Dream myth Protagonist’s struggle for success resonates with all

Modern Tragedy "I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing—his sense of personal dignity" “the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his 'rightful' position in his society"

What makes Death of a Salesman a modern tragedy? "It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man." What makes Death of a Salesman a modern tragedy?

Central Ideas Reality and Illusion The American Dream Family Nature and Physical Pursuits Examples?

Motifs The jungle/woods Fall/falling/down Diamonds Stealing The garden Brand names Stockings

Realist Drama 19th century France Everyday characters, situations and dilemmas Language captures natural conversation A ‘lifelike’ stage picture: contemporary costuming and three-dimensional sets Usually a critique of social problems Realist dramatists: Henrik Ibsen (A Doll’s House), George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)

John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, 1912 Detroit Institute of Arts

George Bellows Dempsey and Firpo 1924

Expressionist Drama Reaction to Realism—early 1900s. Inner psychological reality of a character Subjective vision of the world as opposed to an objective representation (Realism)

Elmer Rice (Expressionist playwright) Expressionist Drama “getting beneath reality, displaying more than reality, replacing reality with something more expressive” Elmer Rice (Expressionist playwright) Ignores dramatic convention – plot, structure, characterization Poetic dialogue Lighting used to create atmosphere Eugene O’Neill (Hairy Ape) and Thornton Wilder (Our Town) –also influenced by Expressionism

Jane Frank, Crags and Crevices, 1961.

Willem De Kooning Woman V, 1952–1953.

Mark Rothko No. 61 (Rust and Blue) 1953

Franz Kline, Painting Number 2, 1954,

Miller Goes for the Combo Deal! Interested in Expressionism but didn’t want to abandon the conventions of Realism. Used a dramatic form that combined THE SUBJECTIVITY OF EXPRESSIONISM with the ILLUSION OF OBJECTIVITY AFFORDED BY REALISM. What elements of Realism and Expressionism are present in the text?