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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden Death of a salesman.

  1. 1. The Loman family's dreams of success : An analysis of Death of a Salesman through Althusser's theory of ideology

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Haben Haile; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Dream; American dream; success; accomplishments; Althusser; ideology; ideological apparatuses; Arthur Miller; family;

    Sammanfattning : This essay aims to analyze the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller from an Althusserian perspective, focusing on his theory on ideology and ideological apparatuses. The theory has been implemented by analyzing the main characters individually to decipher their ideological views and how they have been subjects of interpellation. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Willy Loman's Impact on his Own World : A Lacanian Analysis of a Life Lived in Incongruence

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Can Incegül; [2022]
    Nyckelord :psychoanalytic theory; Jaqcues Lacan; mirror stage; symbolic stage; language; unconscious; repression; regression; defense mechanisms; Willy Loman;

    Sammanfattning : In the 1949 play The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller depicts a man that goes through life without ever really understanding his own place in it. Willy Loman spends his life chasing a dream yet lacks the ability to achieve it. LÄS MER

  3. 3. The Effects of Mass Culture on the Loman Family : The Frankfurt School Critical Theory Applied to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Henrik Levin; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Miller; Marx; alienation; Frankfurt School; critical theory; mass culture; conformity; consumerism; escapism; law of success;

    Sammanfattning : This essay discusses the effects of mass culture on the Loman family in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman. The focus is to identify whether conformation to mass culture and alienation have caused the characters to be lonely and to give up what they enjoy and to fall in line with a system where individuality is replaced by totality. LÄS MER

  4. 4. The Loman Family’s State of Mind : A Psychoanalytical Reading of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Niklas Eklöf; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Loman Family; Willy Loman; Biff Loman; Happy Loman; Linda Loman; Death of a Salesman; Psychoanalysis; Model of personality; Id; Ego; Superego; Freud; Defence mechanisms;

    Sammanfattning : This essay will analyse the members of the Loman family of Death of a Salesman from a Freudian psychoanalytical perspective. The purpose is to understand what goes on inside the mind of these characters through Freud’s structural model of personality, the Id, Ego and Superego. The members of the Loman family are no longer happy with their lives. LÄS MER

  5. 5. The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Willy Loman's Character : A Freudian and Marxist Analysis of Death of a Salesman

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Maya Noras; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Repression; Projection; Frustration; Defense mechanisms; Marxism; The American Dream;

    Sammanfattning : The field of psychoanalysis makes it possible to make an in-depth study of the protagonist in the play Death of a Salesman. After performing such an analysis, this paper suggests that Willy suffers from mental illness and that he is obsessed with living the American Dream. LÄS MER