Essays about: "Loman Family"

Found 5 essays containing the words Loman Family.

1. 1. The Loman family's dreams of success : An analysis of Death of a Salesman through Althusser's theory of ideology

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Haben Haile; [2023]
   Keywords : Dream; American dream; success; accomplishments; Althusser; ideology; ideological apparatuses; Arthur Miller; family;

   Abstract : This essay aims to analyze the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller from an Althusserian perspective, focusing on his theory on ideology and ideological apparatuses. The theory has been implemented by analyzing the main characters individually to decipher their ideological views and how they have been subjects of interpellation. READ MORE

3. 2. Willy Loman's Impact on his Own World : A Lacanian Analysis of a Life Lived in Incongruence

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Can Incegül; [2022]
   Keywords : psychoanalytic theory; Jaqcues Lacan; mirror stage; symbolic stage; language; unconscious; repression; regression; defense mechanisms; Willy Loman;

   Abstract : In the 1949 play The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller depicts a man that goes through life without ever really understanding his own place in it. Willy Loman spends his life chasing a dream yet lacks the ability to achieve it. READ MORE

4. 3. The Effects of Mass Culture on the Loman Family : The Frankfurt School Critical Theory Applied to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Henrik Levin; [2021]
   Keywords : Miller; Marx; alienation; Frankfurt School; critical theory; mass culture; conformity; consumerism; escapism; law of success;

   Abstract : This essay discusses the effects of mass culture on the Loman family in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman. The focus is to identify whether conformation to mass culture and alienation have caused the characters to be lonely and to give up what they enjoy and to fall in line with a system where individuality is replaced by totality. READ MORE

5. 4. The Loman Family’s State of Mind : A Psychoanalytical Reading of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Niklas Eklöf; [2020]
   Keywords : Loman Family; Willy Loman; Biff Loman; Happy Loman; Linda Loman; Death of a Salesman; Psychoanalysis; Model of personality; Id; Ego; Superego; Freud; Defence mechanisms;

   Abstract : This essay will analyse the members of the Loman family of Death of a Salesman from a Freudian psychoanalytical perspective. The purpose is to understand what goes on inside the mind of these characters through Freud’s structural model of personality, the Id, Ego and Superego. The members of the Loman family are no longer happy with their lives. READ MORE

6. 5. Financial Success and the American Dream : A Marxist Reading of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Mohammad Gailan; [2016]
   Keywords : Althusser; self-awareness; capitalism; American dream; Miller; financial success; ideology; Marxism; communism; socialism; freedom of choice;

   Abstract : This paper analyses Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman. The main focus is on the theme American Dream and its influences on the characters. READ MORE