《推销员之死》中威利的悲剧 --毕业论文.doc

【标题】《推销员之死》中威利的悲剧 【作者】闵 川 【关键词】悲剧；威利?洛曼；影响；美国梦 【指导老师】赵洪尹 曾琳玲 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionArthur Miller was born in New York City on October 17, 1915. His career as a playwright began when he was a student at the University of Michigan. Several of his works won prizes, and during his senior years, the Federal Theatre Project in Detroit performed one of his works. He produced his first great success?— All My Sons in 1947. Two years later, Miller wrote Death of a Salesman, which won the Pulitzer Prize and caused a great sensation. Many critics described Death of a Salesman as the first great American tragedy, and Miller reached eminence as a man who understood the essence of American life. Then he published The Crucible in 1953, a searing indictment of the anti-Communist hysteria that pervaded in America in 1950s. He has won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award twice, and his Broken Glass won the Olivier Award for the best play of the London season.Death of a Salesman, Miller’s most famous work, addresses the painful conflicts within one family, but it also tackles larger issues regarding American values. Much of this success is attributed to Millers facility in portraying the universal hopes and fears of middle-class American. Through his main character, Willy Loman, Miller examines the myth of the American Dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth. He takes Willy as an example to reveal how undivided faith in such a dream can often yield tragic results, especially when it goes largely unfulfilled. Audiences have continued to respond to this theme because in some incarnation, the American Dream has persisted; a viewer can watch Death of a Salesman and relate Willy’s situation to their own compromised ideals and missed opportunities. Meanwhile, Miller’s work is also revered for its bold realism and riveting theatricality, a play that deals in weighty emotional issues without descending to melodrama.?In this paper, the author plans to