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ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAGEDY

    1 Author(s):  DR. VANDANA V.

Vol -  5, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 249 - 253  (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

Arthur Miller, one of the prolific writers in America. He received the Pulitzer Prize for the play Death of a Salesman in 1949. This play represents a successful attempt to blend the themes of social, personal and psychological tragedy within the some dramatic framework. It is also represents the theme of American tragedy. This play explores protagonist downfall and final defeat illustrate not only the failure of man but also the failure of way of life. It gives the clear picture of psychological tragedy of American lower middle class man. This article attempts focus on the psychological tragedy of salesman.

  1. Miller Arthur. Death of a Salesman Newyork: Viking press Inc 1949.(all quotations from this text)
  2. “Introduction to Arthur Millers’s Collected plays” describes
  3. Miller Arthur. The Tragedy of a common man, NewYork times: 27Feb 1949. p.3)
  4. Ibid  p.3
  5. Mathew C. Rouane, Death of a Salesman, and the poetics of Arthur Miller “A Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller, E. by Christopher Bigsby, CUP, London, 1997, p.62
  6. N.S. Pradhan, Introduction, Death of a Salesman, Arnold Association, New Delhi, 1990, p.11 

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