영문서평: 아서밀러 『세일즈맨의 죽음』(Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller)

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영문서평: 아서밀러 『세일즈맨의 죽음』(Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller)에 대한 보고서 자료입니다.

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1. Introduction

2. Plot overview

3. Commentary
3.1. Character analysis
3.2. Content analysis

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1. Introduction
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. His career as a playwright began while he was a student at the University of Michigan. He produced his first great success, All My Sons, in 1947. Two years later, Miller wrote Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize and transformed Miller into a national sensation. Many critics described Death of a Salesman as the first great American tragedy, and Miller gained eminence as a man who understood the deep essence of the United States.
Death of a Salesman addresses the painful conflicts within one family, but it also tackles larger issues regarding American national values. The play examines the cost of blind faith in the American Dream. In this respect, it offers a postwar American reading of personal tragedy in the tradition of Sophocles’ Oedipus Cycle. A half century after it was written, Death of a Salesman remains a powerful drama. Its indictment of fundamental American values and the American Dream of material success may seem somewhat tame in today’s age of constant national and individual self-analysis and criticism, but its challenge was quite radical for its time.

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아서밀러,   세일즈맨의죽음,   arthur miller,   death of a salesman