PPT-Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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 . Audio versions of the novellas are produced alone not with the other st ories in the anthology By Arthur Miller. Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Early in 1692, a small group of girls in Salem fell ill, falling victim to hallucinations and seizures. . In extremely religious Puritan New England, frightening or surprising occurrences were often attributed to the devil or his cohorts.. 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 . Introduction to Arthur Miller’s . Interesting fact: . . When Arthur Miller died in 2005, in . Newsweek . magazine Richard Schickel wrote, “Not a week has passed since the play premiered on Broadway 56 years ago this month when it was not playing somewhere in the world, playing too on our instinctive response to an instinctive work.. 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 . (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. Archetypes, Historical Context,. And Synopsis. Powerpoint Menu. Archetypes and Connections. Story Synopsis. Themes and Historical Context. What is a Legend?. a traditional __________tale or collection of related tales popularly regarded as true, but usually contain a mixture of fact and fiction. 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. Arthur Miller: A Life. Born on October 17, 1915. Attended the University of Michigan from 1934-1938. Graduated with a degree in journalism. Wrote and produced five plays during college career. Married three times . 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. 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.. McCarthy, Blacklists, HUAC and Arthur Miller (the guy who wrote the Crucible…) How can an author use a historical situation to illustrate a current problem? Why did Miller write this play in the 1950’s, hundreds of years after the historical Salem Witch trials? McCarthy, Blacklists, HUAC and Arthur Miller (the guy who wrote the Crucible…) How can an author use a historical situation to illustrate a current problem? Why did Miller write this play in the 1950’s, hundreds of years after the historical Salem Witch trials?