scholarly journals The Effect of Ideology on Translation: English Translation into Persian in Death of a Salesman Play by Arthur Miller

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza VALİZADEH ◽  
Ahmad Ezzati VAZİFEHKHAH
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

scholarly journals The Idea of Tragedy in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and A View from the Bridge

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Hanyue Li
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
The Times ◽  
Twentieth Century America ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Arthur Miller is acknowledged as a heavyweight in portraying ordinary life’s tragedy in twentieth-century America. He believes that tragedy is no longer confined to the kingly man placed aloofness from others; he denies rigid definitions of traditional Greek tragedy and enriches them to keep abreast of the times in modern society. Most Miller scholars, unfortunately, are still preoccupying themselves with Death of a Salesman. Available criticism of these two plays is scant and not extensive. This paper studies both the ostensible structures of standardized Greek tragedy and the hidden ideas of modern tragedy as they are intertwiningly applied to the two texts to see how Miller expresses his idea of modern tragedy behind the shield of Greek tragedy and how it gives a new lease on the life of antiquated classical tragedy in modern society.

scholarly journals Death of a Salesman: elementos da tragédia clássica no drama moderno de Arthur Miller

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
Alyne Ferreira de Araújo ◽  
Francisco Edson de Freitas Lopes ◽  
Daise Lilian Fonseca Dias
Keyword(s):  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, sob a perspectiva aristotélica, elementos da tragédia clássica em Death of a salesman [A morte do caixeiro viajante], escrita em 1949 por Arthur Miller (1915 – 2005), um dos mais influentes dramaturgos americanos. A peça em questão denuncia e desmistifica a ideia do Sonho Americano através da história de Willy Loman, um caixeiro viajante que possui uma obsessiva fixação pelos ideais de progresso, tanto financeiro como familiar, o que o leva a uma busca idealizada por uma vida perfeita ao lado de sua família. No entanto, as exigências da sociedade capitalista e sua busca por reconhecimento e sucesso acabam lhe proporcionando um fim trágico. Na época em que o texto de Miller foi escrito, a sociedade americana estava em um momento pós-guerra, e o autor, através de sua obra, traz para o centro dos debates as relações do indivíduo em conflito com o meio social. Além disso, embora sua peça não seja considerada uma tragédia clássica e sim um drama moderno, em Death of a salesman, estão presentes elementos característicos da tragédia clássica. Sendo assim, é necessário observar-se como aquela tragédia, proveniente dos gregos, transformou-se no drama moderno; partindo deste ponto, serão analisados tais elementos dentro do texto de Miller.

scholarly journals Genuine Relationship: Pure Adaptation

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastaran Arjomandi
Keyword(s):  
Eugene O'neill ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Middle Position ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
Eugene O’Neill ◽  
Death Of A Salesman ◽  
Martin Mcdonagh

The present research attempted to focus on the concept of adaptation (in theatre) from the perspective of Walter Benjamin’s philosophical concept of pure language firstly introduced in 1923. In so doing, three adapted into Persian performed plays Marg-e Foroushandeh (Borhani Marand, 2015), Ghat-e Dast dar Spokan (Khojasteh, 2015), and Pish az Sobhaneh-ye Jadali (Rezaee, 2016) were studied along with their English written source playtexts Death of a Salesman, A Behanding in Spokane and Before Breakfast, respectively by Arthur Miller, Martin McDonagh and Eugene O'Neill. In each case, the source playtext and its adapted performed play had to be seen as the two main fragmentary languages detached from a larger whole in the fall from grace. Using Ladoucer’s (1995) model of dramatic text translation, the alterations carried out in the main verbal and nonverbal text components (speech lines/dialogues and stage directions) were studied to see which performances were deserved to be considered as purely adapted ones. Finally, the results indicated that not all the transposed performances could be seen as pure adaptations rooted in creativity in its true sense, occupying a middle position between dependency and deviation.

scholarly journals Study on the Changing Connotation of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p56
Author(s):  
Shuaiqi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century. His masterpiece—Death of a Salesman—tells a tragic story about an ordinary American and chronicles the changing connotation of the American dream. The American dream originates from the puritan spirit, develops in the Revolutionary war and distorts as society changed. The essay attempts to reveal the changing connotation of the American dream reflected in this play by analyzing the representative character portrayed by Miller. On the basis of a better understanding of the play, the great influence of values in different time, such as the American dream, on ordinary people are expected to be learned.

A Note on Arthur Miller's The Price

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-310
Author(s):  
Ralph Willett
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Arthur Miller ◽  
The Family ◽  
All My Sons ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

In 1938, a play by Arthur Miller, They Too Arise, won a WPA award. The plot focuses upon the personal and political tensions between two brothers and their father, a middle-class manufacturer. In 1968, the first Broadway performance of The Price demonstrated a remarkable continuity which includes All My Sons and Death of a Salesman. For here, in this Ibsenite domestic tale, the disposal of the family furniture becomes another occasion for revealing the relationships, past and present, of two brothers, and the nature of their respective stances towards their father.

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