The Tragedy of the Common Man in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller's "Death of Salesman" written in 1949 received the Pulitzer Prize and established the international status of Miller. The plays the problem of social realism and family complexity because it explores the life of a man living in fragmented reality with hope and dream that is not satisfied. Arthur Miller's play enhances the meaning and value of American dreams by comparing two different perspectives to success; one argues that hard work and support will lead to success. It is cute to succeed.

In Arthur's "Death of a salesman", the play is regarded as a tragedy in accordance with the instruction of the essay part 4 "Ali Dali in tragedy" and "tragedy and ordinary people". In order for a story to be regarded as a tragedy, you must have certain characteristics such as tragic defects that must cause compassion and fear by changing the state of its central position, and the hero has to Try to gain "legal" status in society. All three of these features are shown in "Death of a salesman". This is the reason I think this is a tragedy.

In Arthur Miller's 1949 article "Tragedy and Ordinary People", Miller says: "In this era, almost no tragedy was written." Foreword to the death of a salesman. There was only one kind of tragedy according to the definition of Aristotle before the mirror 'death of salesman'. For Aristotle, the tragedy drama must be developed around the king, the gods, or the high-ranking people. In these classic tragedies words and proper roles must be promoted

Julius Caesar, the standard of encounter with the death of a salesman and the tragedy of Oedipus Rex, is considered a classic tragedy, and that story should follow Aristotle's principle in his work Poetics. Aristotle believes that tragedy is accompanied by destruction of a person with a high social status. A tragic fall of an individual is caused by a tragic defect. Arthur Miller has extended the classic definition of tragedy to include not only people with high social status but also the general public. Aristotle and Miller, the drama actor Julius Caesar, the criteria established by the death of salesman and Edps Rex may be regarded as a tragedy.