Open AccessInterpretation of Tragedy in Death of a Salesman from the Social Perspective
Author(s) -
Gao Pei
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of education, teaching and social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2642-2336
pISSN - 2642-2328
DOI - 10.22158/jetss.v2n4p38
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , connotation , perspective (graphical) , interpretation (philosophy) , character (mathematics) , miller , value (mathematics) , pillar , social character , sociology , aesthetics , history , philosophy , art , social science , mathematics , linguistics , visual arts , ecology , statistics , geometry , structural engineering , engineering , biology
Death of a Salesman is the representative work of Arthur Miller, a famous modern American dramatist, which creates the character Willy Loman who arouses the strong aesthetic emotion of tragedy. From the perspective of individual, family and society, Willy’s death reflects the tragic connotation of lost individual self-value, distorted role of family pillar and shattered dreams at the bottom of society in American society.