Look back at the post that was due Wednesday, October 13th. The assignment says: Finish reading Act I of Death of a Salesman. Come up with and post three discussion questions to present to the class about the first act.
Read through the discussion questions that your classmates have posted. Choose one question that you find most thought-provoking and answer it in at least 250 words. Use details from the text in addition to your own ideas and opinions.
Start by indicating whose question you are answering and what the question is. Then go on to give your response.
Please also begin reading Act II of Death of a Salesman. Remember that interactive orals have moved to Tuesday. We will be discussing Act II of Death of a Salesman on Thursday. I will post vocabulary over the weekend on Edline (in addition to upcoming test dates!) if you would like to get started.
The woman is definitely a key to a new theme in this play. We can clearly notice that the main theme of the novel is the failure of obtaining the american dream and the mistress in some way is there in the play to push this failure to happen. In my opinion the woman has a very important role throughout the play even though i have only read up to act one. The stylistic devices used by miller in this act are many. The most evident is the dreaming of the protagonist that recurs to past events and then returns to the present. When he does this he is reminding of moments past with his mistress when he was out for job.
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Why is Willy so obsessed with being liked from other persons?
I will discuss this post because I find the as the most provoking and interesting one. Willy’s role in this book is very interesting and important. He’s practically the protagonist of this book. His life is not happy at all, and he doesn’t do much to make it better. Since he has two sons’, who really never accepted and respected him ah he deserves, he is obsessed with the thing to be liked from the other persons. He is trying to find the love that he never got from his sons, but unfortunately, that love is unique and there is no any love equal or similar to that one. Unfortunately, he never got that love. Sometimes they treat him well, because they feel sorry for their mother, who really loves and cares about Willy. Willy is very strange, he daydreams a lot, and it he doesn’t like reality because ‘his life sucks’ as he said in the novel. We can see that he is not happy just by listening to what he says when he closes his eyes and starts daydreaming. He never got what he really wanted from his sons. Maybe that’s the main reason why he keeps on trying to find a love, a missing one but the most important love. In my opinion there is no such a love that can be equal to children’s love. He always wanted the best for his son’s, he always tried to make their life better, but he never succeeded to get their love.
Dimitrije Miskovic
IB English B HL
26.10.10
Ms.Gelso
Giulio--
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that one of the main themes throughout the play is based on Willy's failure to obtain the American dream. Is the woman simply another manifestation of that failure?
Grammatical Tip:
You wrote: "When he does this he is reminding of moments past with his mistress when he was out for job."
Instead of "he is reminding" write "he is reminded".
Dimitrije--
ReplyDeleteYou are right that Willy's relationship to his sons is very important. Biff is even more important to focus on than Happy. While Willy and Happy seem unable to accept how their lives have turned out, Biff seeks to confront it. Willy wants Biff to live a life differently from his own very badly and we will see how that turns out in the second act!
Grammatical Tip:
You wrote: "Since he has two sons’, who really never accepted and respected him ah he deserves, he is obsessed with the thing to be liked from the other persons."
"SONS" is simply a plural noun so you do not need an apostrophe.
"He is obsessed with the thing to be like from the other persons" is slightly awkward. A better way to phrase this would be "He is obsessed with being liked by other people."