Death of a Salesman (Miller, 2000) presents the idea that the working class are condemned to the life they live. They have little choice other than to adapt to being a member of the proletariat, and live a way of life that is set out for them by the bourgeoisie supremacy, or to renounce this, and commit to separation from society. At the end of the play, the protagonist Willy decides that his only option is the latter, and commits suicide; this exhibits just how hopeless life was for people in the lower classes. Without any form of economical or social power death appears to be the only escape.
