DOASM

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  • 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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