Tragedy hero was concerned as archaic and kingly. But Arthur Miller shows us how a modern normal people could also called tragedy hero in Death of a Salesman. Also, Arthur Miller says that “tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need, to secure one thing— his sense of personal dignity” in his article Tragedy and the Common Man. By support his own idea, Miller gives the examples of Willy Loman defrauds insurance money, Singlesman successful and lonely life and Biff’s failure life. Tragic feeling and personal dignity originally are conflicting. “Tragic felling” means negative and mournful when disastrous things happen. Personal dignity always relate with positive
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Arthur Miller skillfully use his name to reveals the character's life. Singleman is not only the model and idol to Willy Loman, but also a tragedy hero who make his american dream come true. “ And old Dave, he’d go up to his room— I’ll never forget — and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ”(Miller 1807) The surface life of Singleman is such beautiful and attractive. But no one know how much he pay for the successful life. Hotel is his home and he has not harmony family to accompany with him. No one know if Dave is really happy and satisfied with his life. “When he died — and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York……hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. ”(Miller 1807) Even many people show in Singleman funeral ceremony, but he still face alone by himself, from born to dead. When singles man leave out of the world, everything he earned when alive could not pursue him to another world. He did get the dignity, but he experience a tragedy
Arthur Miller skillfully use his name to reveals the character's life. Singleman is not only the model and idol to Willy Loman, but also a tragedy hero who make his american dream come true. “ And old Dave, he’d go up to his room— I’ll never forget — and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ”(Miller 1807) The surface life of Singleman is such beautiful and attractive. But no one know how much he pay for the successful life. Hotel is his home and he has not harmony family to accompany with him. No one know if Dave is really happy and satisfied with his life. “When he died — and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York……hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. ”(Miller 1807) Even many people show in Singleman funeral ceremony, but he still face alone by himself, from born to dead. When singles man leave out of the world, everything he earned when alive could not pursue him to another world. He did get the dignity, but he experience a tragedy