|
Du bist hier: Referate Datenbank | Englisch
| Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
English Choice-Duty-Subject Huda Mahdi, Andreas Eder, Jasmin Bayer,
Barbara Reisenhofer
Arthur Miller´s Death of a Salesman
Character
Linda:
She is Willy´s wife and the mother of Biff´s
and Happy´s. Linda loves her husband very much and that´s why she
cares more about Willy than about her two sons. Linda is very naive and rather
optimistic. Although she tries to protect Willy from reality and its dangers,
Willy supresses her.
Linda runs the household and tries to get by on money.
She doesn´t complain about anything and that´s why she
cant´understand why Willy has committed sucide.
Message
- American Dream of financial
success
Willy´s dream is to
become a very famous and rich salesman. He wants to build a house with a big
garden for his wife. At the age of 60 he realizes that his dream hasn´t
come true and commits suicide.
For society he loses his worth when he isn´t able
to work so hard any longer.
- Relationship between father and
son
Willy has a troubled
relationship to his sons. He has great expectations in his sons, especially in
Biff. Willy wants him to get a good job, but Biff wants to become a farmer.
The father can´t understand that his son Biff does
not have the same dream as he himself. The trouble is that Willy never listens
to his sons when they want to talk to him.
- Confrontation with
reality
Willy lives an a virtual
world and can´t cope with reality. That´s why he creates a world of
illusions in which he talks to his dead brother Ben, to Linda, to Biff, to Happy
and other persons of his past. For the other people it seems as if he was talkng
to himself.
|
PDF-Format (8,57 KB)
ZIP
Archiv (4,43 KB)
(c) 2003-2012 ontaps GmbH