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A 7 page research paper/essay that argues that Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman conforms with the Aristotelian definition of tragedy as discussed in Aristotle’s Poetics. The writer cites and discusses the play’s setting, plot, characterization and use of imagery in defending this position. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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a tragedy as defined by Aristotle. I) Aristotle felt that a tragedy should ideally take place completely within one location (McManus). a) Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman,
a traveling salesman in his sixties and the entirety of the play takes place in the Lomans Brooklyn home. b) Miller expands the scope of the setting in the same
manner as Sophocles, which is a process described by Aristotle. II) In his Poetics, Aristotle indicates the plot as the most significant feature of tragedy and states that it is
ideally derived from a tightly woven structure of cause-and-effect actions that inevitably lead to the protagonists tragic downfall (McManus). III) After considerations of plot, Aristotle values character development, which
ideally should support the plot. a) Willy is just an ordinary person, but he has always harbored grandiose dreams and penned the fulfillment of those dreams on his sons., powerful
and successful man that he longed to be. IV) The tragedy of the play is that Willy never developed emotionally beyond the scope of an adolescence, which is a time
in life that tends to value material possessions, outward appearances, and popularity over substantial values, such as scholarship, working hard and establishing a relationship with God. (a) The imagery
of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indicates, Death of a Salesman is a
tragedy and it is a tragedy that follows the parameters that were first laid out by Aristotle. Millers Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy Aristotle wrote his
treatise Poetics roughly a half-century after the death of Sophocles. Aristotle considered Sophocles play Oedipus Rex to be the play that epitomizes the dramatic genre of tragedy, as Aristotle pictures
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