The Theme Of Abandonment In Death Of A Salesman By Henrik Ibsen

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Abandonment: The Ultimate Betrayal
Playwrights have a tendency to link their standpoints on specific issues in the world through their characters, plots, and their scripts. These playwrights provide subtle clues in an endeavor to get the audience’s attention fixated on what they want the audience to comprehend or notice. A Doll House and Death of a Salesman are plays that essentially deal with the conflicts of abandonment and betrayal. Through the analysis of A Doll House, and Death of a Salesman, the audience will speculate on how an individual in each play abandoned or betrayed people who are close to them.
In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House¸ the dilemma of whether it is justified for Nora to leave her family, is significant arriving at the falling action of the play. Nora is repeatedly treated childishly and inferior by her husband, Torvald. On page 903, Nora decides to leave her husband, which suggests that Torvald was not wrong to treat her as a child. It is indeed childish and selfish for Nora to abandon her children at the expense of her happiness. In many cases, the audience applauds at a woman who finds the
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It was revealed in Willy’s past that he had an affair with another woman, and he even gave her his wife’s stockings. In the process of cheating on his wife, as well as giving his mistress his wife’s stockings, the audience learns the ultimate lack of respect that Willy has for his wife, Linda. During the scene when Biff walks in on his father and his mistress, and witnesses his father’s betrayal to his marriage, he immediately flees to The West to deal with the fallout of the affair. When Biff lost respect for Willy, Willy’s rapidly deteriorating mental state evolved into hallucinations. In the play, Death of a Salesman, a pattern seems to emerge where the audience observes Willy’s consistent poor decision-making skills, and the consequences that come from

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