Death of a Salesman3
In the play, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman, asympathetic salesman and despicable father who's "life is a casting off" has some traits that match Aristotle's views of a tragic hero. Willy's series of "ups and downs" is identical to Aristole's views of proper tragic figure; a king with flaws. His faulty personality, the financial struggles, and his inabiltity are three substantital flaws that contribute to his Willy, an aging salesman who sells nothing, is abused by the buyers, and repeatly borrows money from Charley to make ends meet. He is angered by the way his boss, Howard fired him after working for thirty-four-years at the same company, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away--a man is not a piece of fruit!" (Miller, 61). Willy is battling for his life, fighting to sustain a sense of himself that makes it worthwhile living at all in a world which seemingly offers less and less space for the individual. Now, If it is true that tragedy is the consquence of a man's total complusion to evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his environment. And this is precisely the morality of trag
an object so his family could get money from insurance. Ironically, this trait matchs room. Willy, at first, claims she is in the room because her shower is broken; then he C) Some of Willy's traits match Aristotle's views of a tragic hero. his sons-- because he spends time with them. For the most part, he is a decent husband
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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