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This 6 page paper discusses and applies the Aristolian structure for the tragic play to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Examples given, cited from texts. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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dreams, played out in a life comprised of a long string of lies, is at the heart of the play. Many have stated that Death of a Salesman is the
classic modern tragedy and Willy Loman is its questionable hero. Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, who over the span of a day comes face-to-face
with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that the goals he has been pursuing for a lifetime have been the wrong ones.
This pursuit of the wrong goals have adversely affected his sense of self, sense of worth, and sense of reality. In a final confrontation with his son, Biff, he becomes
acutely aware that his true treasure has always lain with his family, and in one last noble effort to continue to take care of them, commits suicide. According to Aristotle
in his sixth Book, page 1229, there are certain criteria which make a play or story a tragic tale. First he states that the tragedy is an imitation of an
action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, is in the form of dramatic action, not of narrative, elicits pity and fear, emotions that are purged through the
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(Else/Aristotle 1237). First, the true tragedy, according to Aristotle, demands
a tragic hero. Tongue in cheek, Miller bends the classic structure in that the hero often is someone of influence and power. Willy really isnt any of those things, but
he thinks he is. In fact, this makes his fall more poignant because it becomes clear that Willy is not really a bad person, but that he is incapable of
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