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1. 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 humanioraAbstract : 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
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2. 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 humanioraAbstract : 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
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3. 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 humanioraAbstract : 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
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4. The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Willy Loman's Character : A Freudian and Marxist Analysis of Death of a Salesman
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The field of psychoanalysis makes it possible to make an in-depth study of the protagonist in the play Death of a Salesman. After performing such an analysis, this paper suggests that Willy suffers from mental illness and that he is obsessed with living the American Dream. READ MORE
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5. The process of Individuation in Willy Loman : A Jungian Archetypal Literary Analysis of the Protagonist in Arthur Miller’s Play Death of a Salesman Compared to the Classical Hero of Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This study is an archetypal literary analysis of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman and Homer’s The Odyssey. The analysis aims to demonstrate how Arthur Miller’s protagonist, Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman demonstrates several stages of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of the individuation process, similar to Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey. READ MORE