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Death Of A Salesman Movie Analysis

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Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1949. The play is known for its selective or modified realist style, in which unnecessary details are intentionally eliminated while important details are highlighted. Miller use these eliminated and highlighted elements in the play to symbolize Willy Loman’s, the protagonist, emotional aspects, and eventually, his downfall. First is one of the most prominent elements which some of its components are eliminated in order to illustrate Willy’s inside feelings: the Lomans’ house. In the play, the stage direction provides that the house is to be staged in the center, similar to in the film where the house is also where most actions take place – and thus, in both cases, the house stands …show more content…

Instead of the audience getting a wide view of the whole stage when the play is performed in theatre, the use of camera allows audience to focus on certain important actions that happen in some specific areas – thus, resulting in the audience of the film version being able to get a better view of how the actors act out their parts of specific characters and how the sets might be incorporated into story. As the film version is not necessarily being staged live, it is possible to edit some parts out in the editing process – or some certain actions that are required on the stage might not have to be included in the film version at all – for example, the use of lights to focus on certain actions and allow some actors to make an entrance onto or exit the stage. Therefore, overall, an access to the camera and filming technique in the film version allows director to experiment more in cooperating the camera to bring out more essence in some actions, as well as to possibly make the story go smoother for the

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Death of a Salesman Free Response Essay Throughout the play Death of a Salesman, author Arthur Miller discusses the flaws of Willy Loman and the extent to which they bring about his own suffering and the suffering of others. As a tragic hero in the 1940’s, Willy exemplifies a typical man trying to achieve the very unrealistic American Dream. This dream not only solidified his fate but also threatened the success of every member in his household. Willy Loman first encounters the American Dream after his uncle Ben shares his successes and priorities with him, which in turn, become the basis of Willy’s dreams as well.

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Death of a Salesman has been extremely influential in regards to theatrical performance and it has been performed by multiple different theatre groups. It has also been made into a movie, which has actors such as Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, John Malkovich as Biff Loman, and Kate Reid as Linda Loman. All of these actors’ performances were true to the character and were extremely realistic. It was easy for the audience to get caught up in the characters that these actors portrayed. Throughout the movie, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, and Kate Reid all provided an outstanding performance by ensuring that their facial expressions, body language, and emotions always shined through all the while they were creating realistic characters that were easily believable by the audience.

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In his seminal work, Death of A Salesman, Arthur Miller portrays wretched conditions inflicting the lives of lower class people amid class-struggle in 1940s America. Miller sets the story during the great financial depression in the US , in between times after World War I and around World War II, though his characters hardly speak about the trauma of two World Wars. Miller earns an enormous success by putting an ordinary salesman as the protagonist in his play instead of putting a man of social nobility. In the play, Miller depicts his central character, Willy Loman as a destitute salesman struggling to rise up the social ladder in a capitalist society, who remains deluded by a 'dream of success ' and takes on a relentless pursuit of happiness that eventually brings his tragic demise. Though some critics speak in favor of the popular account of the cause of his death being his excessive obsession with so called the American dream and the 'capitalist oppression ' ; however, many still refuse to ascribe the cause of his death to capitalist oppression, which I will use synonymously with American dream here.

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