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Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

By: Karina Kovalenko

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Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

By: Karina Kovalenko

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 94, LCC International University, course: Introduction to Literature, language: English, abstract: Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" is a realistic drama consisting of two Acts and a Requiem. It was written in 1949. The play brightly depicts the main character Willie Loman as a person having a wide-spread unreachable “American dream” – the idea that dominates in people’s minds as a symbol of success and happiness. Miller said: “...a lot of people give a lot of their lives to a company or even the government, and when they are no longer needed, when they are used up, they’re tossed aside...Willie Loman’s situation is even more common now than it was then [1949]. A lot of people are eliminated earlier from the productive life in this society than they used to be” (Mays, 2010, p. 1736). Willie represents the one who tried to fulfill this dream to be a salesman and failed being “eliminated from productive life”. Even being old and having wife Linda and two adult sons Biff and Happy, Willie willfully continues going against himself. The plot combines present actions and flashbacks – as a reality and illusion, which is one of the main themes of "Death of a Salesman". Willie betrayed his real wishes and life path, and, although he is responsible for failing his self-realization in life, his environment as well as his wife's and sons’ influence contributed to the elimination of real dreams to the same extend as he himself did.

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The Society-Individual Conflict in Morten Tyldum's Film "The Imitation Game" (2014)

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The Society-Individual Conflict in Morten Tyldum's Film "The Imitation Game" (2014)

Film Review and Analysis

By: Karina Kovalenko

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Communications - Interpersonal Communication, grade: 86, LCC International University, course: Interpersonal Communication, language: English, abstract: "The Imitation Game" (2014) is a historical drama movie directed by Morten Tyldum based on the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges. The film is about life of a famous British mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who is famous by the deciphering of the German Enigma coding machine during the World War II. On the one hand, the movie tells a story of a person with a brilliant mind who changed the course of the world history, but on the other hand, this film is a personal drama that depicts complicated relationships between Alan and other people. Alan has lack of communication skills and his perception of the reality differs from others’ ones. Being misunderstood and rejected by people because of the peculiarity during his college years, Turing closes himself from the world, except one friend. At the beginning of the World War II he joins the secret cryptographists’ team, creates a computer-prototype machine and solves the Enigma mystery. The film brightly shows main character’s communication difficulties and his inability to collaborate in a team. After years, being caught by a policeman, executed and suffered from the punishment, the only one person who could understand him, Joan Clarke, visits him and witnesses his mental and health problems – the results of the execution. I found it very interesting to analyze the development of the relationships between Turing and other people in the movie, how he confronts and deals with life and communication difficulties, and also Turing’s personality. The film’s thread of society’s suppressing on Alan and, eventually, death from it, also shows an inability of the society to accept extraordinary individuals. That is why I chose three themes to analyze and provide examples from the film – perception, identity and relationship maintenance. The purpose of my paper is to show that Alan Turing tries to understand the society, but the society does not want to understand and to admit him.

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Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

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Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

The Society-Individual Conflict in Morten Tyldum's Film "The Imitation Game" (2014)

The Society-Individual Conflict in Morten Tyldum's Film "The Imitation Game" (2014)

Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

Personal failure in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

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