![]() Miller allows w***y to escape from the harsh reality of his failings with the use of expressionism through subjective memories of his past, initially as happy memories and unknown to the audience if reliable or if they have been distorted by w***y, to give comfort to him for his flaw in his dedication to the wrong American Dream. Quite ironic as Howard is a man much like w***y, in his way of thinking ultimately for his business and for his family, a man whom obeys the American Capitalist Dream. The pressures w***y has put on himself to conform to something he is not, have led to his gradual breakdown and therefore Howard Wagner, the junior of the Wagner Company that w***y has loyally worked for, for 36 years can no longer offer him a position in the company and therefore has to 'sack' w***y. Shakespeare continued this powerful use of tragedy in his plays such as King Lear and Macbeth and Miller, although a great fan of these tragedies decided to adapt a new conception, closely linked to its Greek origin in theatre, but with a modern twist that would reach out to his modern day audience.read more. A tragic hero in the traditional Greek sense is where a king or noble man ultimately dies after making a wrong choice because of his fatal flaw and thus the tragic death of the hero affects not only the noble man, but his people and society too. The definition of tragedy has changed over the course of time with its origins dating back as far as 350BC, when the Greek philosopher Aristotle introduced the concept of hubris, or a man's arrogance and hamartia, a man's fatal flaw. I will look at the different characters to analyse Millers tragic hero 'w***y' and then look to see if Biff, w***y's eldest son is the true hero of Death of a Salesman. To be named a tragedy it is important to look at what is meant by 'a tragedy' and then to analyse if the play fits into this category. ![]() ![]() w***y Loman battles with the reality and imagery of the Capitalist American Dream. The play depicted over two Acts and Requiem, takes the audience on an emotional journey of a confused and 'lost' lo-man on the tragic road to suicide. Is Biff the True Hero of Death of a Salesman? The post war play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller could be viewed as a contemporary democratic tragedy.
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