PPT-Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

19152005 Background Info Born in NYC First success in 1947 All My Sons Wrote Death of a Salesman 1948 Married with two children at the time Background Info 1950 F ell in love with Marilyn Monroe eventually married and then divorced. Audio versions of the novellas are produced alone not with the other st ories in the anthology 9/2. Agenda. Discussing the end of Act II and Requiem for . Death of . a Salesman . Reviewing unit 2 vocabulary-test Friday!. Last 15-20 minutes to work on Final . Death of a Salesman. project. Act II . American Playwright. LIFE IN A NUTSHELL. Born in . Manhattan, . New York on October 17, . 1915. raised in a moderately . wealthy . household until his family lost almost everything in the Wall Street Crash of . Objectives. SWBAT understand the cultural setting for Arthurian time before we start reading. What do you already know about king . arthur. ?. Recorder for board please. King Arthur Background. Arthur is the key figure in legend. (Very Abridged). Long long ago…in a galaxy far far away…. Or in the Middle Ages in England,. King Uther Pendragon ruled England, but he longed for the wife of another – the wife of one of his lords, Lord Tintagel.. Crucible:. A heat-resistant container in which metals are melted or fused at very high temperatures.. Used symbolically to suggest a severe trial or test.. Arthur Miller (1915 – 2005). Native New Yorker. How did it begin?. At the end of World War II, two powerful nations came into view – the USA and the USSR (Russia). . Both . countries were distrustful of each other. Mistrust and hostility between the two grew and the US worked to stop the spread of Communism. . What does a playwright do?. The playwright provides the point of origin for nearly every play production...the script.. More and more today, the role of the playwright is to write the play and then to disappear. Information. The Crucible. by Arthur Miller. Known and respected for his intimate and realistic portrayal of the working class, Arthur Miller remains one of the most prolific playwrights of his time. At the peak of his career immediately following World War II, American theater was transformed by his profound ability to capture the heart of the common man and make his audiences empathize with his plight as he attempts to find his . What does a playwright do?. The playwright provides the point of origin for nearly every play production...the script.. More and more today, the role of the playwright is to write the play and then to disappear. Who Really Moves the . Ouija . Board?. The devil gives people powers. The devil grants loyalty if those with the “powers” harm others. Historical Context. A "witchcraft craze" rippled through Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s. . Lohman’s. monologue from Act II. Willy . Loman. Juicy Sentence. Willy (talking about Dave . Singleman. ): . When he died—and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston—when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.. Aim. Understand the historical context of the play ‘Death of a Salesman.’. Find out as much as you can about the following:. Arthur Miller (playwright). ‘Death of a Salesman’ and his other works. a. nd the. Open Traveling Salesman Problem. Traveling Salesman Problem. Objective: Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, find the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city..