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IMPRISONMENT IN

Lecturer Aseel Qais Ismael

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

The current research tackles the idea of imprisonment in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman". The play shows people crushed and suffocated by society, the society that filled the minds of its individuals with particular legends, traditions, values, and systems contrasting with principles and morals. Consequently, they seem to be shaped of several contradicting characters and at times disrupted between fantasy and reality. This disruption between the two becomes unbalanced and unpredictable until driving some people to loss or even death. Willy Loman is an aging salesman, belongs to the middle class and feels frustrated due to the pressures of his class. Although he loves his family, yet he is incapable of fulfilling his own dream because he is unable to seek positivity through negativity. He only finds positivity in the past he remembers and in the life he imagines, which is totally different from the life and reality he lives in, the reality where he feels imprisoned. He pursues the American dream which is in fact a fake dream. The play shows the problems faced by the common man and his struggles with society to attain his dream.

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