PPT-Death of a Salesman The relative influences of Greek Tragedy and German Expressionism

Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller was first performed in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate success This deceptively simple story of the tragic road to suicide of a travelling. Arthur Miller. Born in NYC, Jewish. Attended schools in Harlem, Brooklyn. Family devastated by Great Depression. Graduates University of Michigan. Turns down Hollywood (big$) job to stay in NYC: loves live theater. Symbolism. Look at the section involving . The Woman. . The stockings that are mentioned are an important symbol in . Death of a Salesman. . Explain their significance and what they represent.. We are given few details about the life of . INTRODUCTION. Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting , originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20. th. century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective , distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.. Anticipation Guide. Characteristics of a Sophocles Tragedy. A Greek Tragedy Structure. The Role of the chorus. The Sphinx’s Riddle. Oedipus Myth. Characteristics of a Sophocles tragedy:. It is based on events that already took place and with which the audience is familiar. . “All men by nature desire knowledge.”- Aristotle. Tragedy. Tragedy - . Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been. Then, as he slowly realizes his error, the world crumbles around him. The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. . the origins of drama. The Origins Of Drama. Created to celebrate Dionysus, . the ancient Greek god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, and ritual madness and ecstasy. . He was also known as . History of Greek Theater . Theater in . the Western World can be traced back to ancient Greece (c. 500 B.C.). Greek drama was presented exclusively at festivals honoring Dionysus.. Dionysus was the god of wine and . Elizabethan. Jacobean. Revenge Tragedy. Elizabethan Drama is simply the genre of theatre originating in England during the latter half of the 16th Century, being written and performed chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558-1603. It includes, but is in no way limited to, the works of William Shakespeare (his historical plays and comedies as well as his tragedies). . 1949. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller. 1949. Objectives. Be able to identify specific literary techniques used to characterize Willy . Discuss symbols found throughout the second half of the play. 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. Learning Targets. :. Students will be able to list common . Tragic Flaws. of a . tragic hero. .. Students will be able to identify what makes a character the . tragic hero. . Students . will . be aware of . 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.. Classical Theater. Beginnings. Early on, two genres evolved, tragedy and comedy.. It was the Greeks who, in the late 6th century B.C., invented Western drama. . From Festival Origins. Performances were vivid affairs, religious and civic occasions, and the entire community came to watch. Part of one’s civic duty..