Depression is a very harmful and serious threat to people. We need to bring awareness to the symptoms that can lead to suicidal thoughts, as well as the struggles that a person goes through that can lead them to hit rock bottom. I will be using the story “Death of a Salesman” as an example of how easy it is for a person to get overwhelmed by adult responsibilities and fall into a depressive state leading to death. Many people think depression is not a serious threat to the person suffering from it, or they think that not many people suffer from it. But according to the Archives of General Psychology, major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the United States population age 18 and
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The main character Willy Loman is a person who seems to always perceive himself as a baggage, and failure in this world. Willy was a traveling salesman of a company he helped to organize, but as he grows old his abilities and skills are not what they used to be and he becomes less productive for the company, therefore he gets fired. After getting fired, Willy cannot accept his failure and starts to analyze all the negatives in his life. He regrets being unfaithful to his wife Linda and that his son Biff does not respect him. All this black clouds of instability, negativity, and failure, made Willy Loman commit suicide as he saw no escape, or a solution to all his problems.
In conclusion, the play Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller can be viewed as a tragedy because it has major characteristics of a tragedy genre, like the plot, and the main character’s actions and way of being as a person. The main character Willy Loman is brought to his own personal destruction through his own actions and failures. He was fired from his job, he was unfaithful to his wife Linda, his son Biff did not respect him, and he brought instability to his family with finances and debt, when all he wanted was to be rich, live in Boston, and have a stable
The main character Willy Loman is a person who seems to always perceive himself as a baggage, and failure in this world. Willy was a traveling salesman of a company he helped to organize, but as he grows old his abilities and skills are not what they used to be and he becomes less productive for the company, therefore he gets fired. After getting fired, Willy cannot accept his failure and starts to analyze all the negatives in his life. He regrets being unfaithful to his wife Linda and that his son Biff does not respect him. All this black clouds of instability, negativity, and failure, made Willy Loman commit suicide as he saw no escape, or a solution to all his problems.
In conclusion, the play Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller can be viewed as a tragedy because it has major characteristics of a tragedy genre, like the plot, and the main character’s actions and way of being as a person. The main character Willy Loman is brought to his own personal destruction through his own actions and failures. He was fired from his job, he was unfaithful to his wife Linda, his son Biff did not respect him, and he brought instability to his family with finances and debt, when all he wanted was to be rich, live in Boston, and have a stable