Tragedy And The Common Man

In Arthur Miller's 1949 article "Tragedy and Ordinary People", Miller says: "In this era, almost no tragedy was written." This special article was published in the New York Times in 1949. 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.

Articles "tragedies" and "ordinary people" written by Arthur Miller show the main function of a tragic hero in romantic literature. One of the main functions is to quote heroes to the general public. "The ordinary people are the tragic theme in the highest sense like the king," Miller said (Miller 'Tragedy' 1461). This is exactly what happened to Willie and I knew that he would ruin all the goals he wanted to achieve (making their children successful by making them a good salesman) At time, he could not achieve it. Therefore, he understands that he is not alone, he / she does not achieve the goal of life. "No planting, nothing on the ground" (Miller's "Death of a salesman" 122)

By contrast, in contemporary tragedy, "the average person is the tragic in the highest sense like the king" (mirror "Tragedy and ordinary people"). In order to become a hero, people do not need to be members of nobility or the royal family. His article "Tragedy and Ordinary People" reflects Arthur Miller's view of the features necessary for contemporary tragedy. "There is no king that will lead us to the only place that accepts the light of this history and can lead it to our time - the soul and spirit of the ordinary people" (Mirror "Tragedy and ordinary people"). In Modernism work, we see a hero going in. The world is corrupt and breaking. The protagonist of contemporary tragedy is "to prepare to let go of his own life, if you need it one thing - a sense of his personal dignity" can be protected "(Mirror" Tragedy and ordinary people "). One of the things he controls is his integrity and dignity, which is equal to his soul.