1. In the play “Death of a Salesman” the character I identify most with is the wife Linda. Linda is the peace keeper of the play. Like Linda I’m a wife and mother. Linda defends the boys to their farther as Willy says,” How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life?” Willy is talking about his son Biff that he is an unsuccessful man “yet to make thirty-five dollars a week”. As Willy speaks negatively about his son Biff, Linda quickly defends him “He’s finding himself” she tells her husband. Linda
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Kids: Grandpa can you please tell us another of your stories? Grandpa: Again with you boys? how many times do i have to tell you this story? Kids: please Grandpa, One last time. Grandpa: ok fine, which one do u want to know Sam: vimy ridge. Arthur: No, no tell us the battle of Passchendaele Sam: no I hate that one. Grandpa: ok, ok calm down, i can only tell you one story tonight. Sam: can you tell us ypres then? Arthur: yeah i love that one, with all the Canadian Soldiers. Grandpa: ok guys for the last time here it is
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How does Miller use language to make this a moving scene? Throughout the extract, Miller uses complex literary devices and carefully chosen words in order to make Willy seem desperate, in denial, wanting to be independent while not being able to and having a fear of failure. Miller’s use of language portrays Willy to be desperate for the job which is moving. Willy tells Howard that he’s ‘got to’ have his job, which sounds like Willy is trying to seem innocent – as if he cannot survive without
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Brooklyn Brown University - 101- 07 September 17, 2014 Mass Communication/ Journalism When someone asks me what my major is, I tell them communication. They’ll often ask, “Why?” I tell them because it’s so interesting, versatile and fun. Since I was young, I have loved public speaking. It’s weird, I know. But my desire to interact and communicate with people led me to think about a career in communication when I was a junior in high school. As I began to look at colleges
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The third Intermediate Conclusion is Bernard understands that the American dream is just a dream and he knows that without hard work he cannot be successful. Bernard will not follow the “get rich easy” motto as his works very hard to become who he turned out to be near middle of the play. The Symbol that I chose is the Supreme Court as well. In the play Bernard who was once a nerd, then becomes a very successful lawyer, his father Charley said "he is going to argue a case in front of
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| | | | | | | Note globale : /20 | | Etiquette d’anonymat | Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines – U.F.R LCE Année universitaire : 2010/2011 | 2ème session : juin 2011 | Diplôme : L1 LLCE Anglais | Année du diplôme : 1ère | UE n° : UE203 | Nom du responsable de l'UE : Michel Weber | Code apogée : 1TDL2130E1 | Intitulé de l’épreuve : Ecrit Méthodologie de la traduction UE203 - Anglais | Enseignant qui donne le sujet : Michel Weber | Durée de l'épreuve
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of these devices has become the use of language, aesthesis, truth, expression, fiction, and affectiveness. In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s stylistic devices convey not only bitter deception and bleak despair, but also hopeless despondency and forlorn anguish to display the realism and iniquity of the common man. As a representative form of American realism, Death of a Salesman portrays the use of language to convey a feeling of acrimony that demonstrates the relationship between the ideas
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN Study Guide for Teachers World-Class Theatre in the Heart of Vermont 703 Main Stre e t , W eston, V T 05161 www.westonplayhouse.o rg The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company The 2010 WPTC Teacher’s Workshop and the School Matinee and Touring Production is made possible in part by grants from: The Bay and Paul Foundations Mountain Room Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Shubert Foundation The Vermont Country Store and The Orton Family Vermont Humanities Council
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Death of a Salesman is a modern domestic tragedy by Arthur Miller, written in 1948 and first performed in 1949. In America it was regarded by John Gassner as “one of the finest dramas in the whole range of American theatre.” (1) The play is a scornful critique of the American Dream and the idillic materialistic nature of American society in the 1940’s. In the play suffering can be seen through the thoughts and opinions of the protagonist Willy Loman, we can see this in Millers use of stage directions
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play, Death of a Salesman and displays the rise and fall of a tragic hero. Many people may not consider Willy a tragic hero because he is not of high social class and he is like the millions of other Americans trying to living the American dream. However, because he portrayed the characteristics of being a failure and making mistakes, by the end of the play the audience witnesses what Aristotle called “Hamartia” Death of a Salesman can be considered a tragedy. In the play, Death of a Salesman by
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