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Death of a Salesman
Death Of a Salesman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scrim | gauze lowered in front of the stage - DOS: lighting & music |
| greek tragedy/comedy | tragedy: unhappy ending comedy: things end happily (not solely funny) |
| hamartia | tragic flaw |
| hubris | pride |
| flute | willy's dad made and played flutes |
| foil character | everything the main character isn't - DOS: charlie opposite of willy due to wealth and success |
| strophe/antistrophe | strophe: statement about what happened antistrophe: counter to strophe |
| foreshadowing/flashback | -willy's flashbacks -willy's car accidents & rubber hose found in house |
| a prince | how willy sees his father, biff also calls willy a prince, both in contrast to how they feel about themselves |
| tennis shoes | biff has university of virginia written on his shoes, then burns them |
| cosmic irony | if the gods say something will happen, it will |
| chorus | nine men, speak in unison |
| choragos | person who leads the chorus |
| stockings | willy gave the other woman linda's stockings |
| truth | biff said that they "never told the truth for 10 minutes in this house" |
| windshield | willy drives with the window down, disconnecting from reality and yearning for the past and almost crashing |
| alphabetical order | howard's son recites the state capitals in alphabetical order, which contrasts willy's view of success coming from being well liked rather than what you can do |
| letter | M on biff's sweater |
| turning point | main actor "aha" moment, or realize what they did wrong |
| climax | in between falling action and resolution |
| supreme court | bernard is going to argue in front of it: doesn't have to talk about it because he's going to DO it (opposite of what willy & fam does) |
| checkerboard design | floors in DOS |
| disappearing glass | glass of water mixed w a substance, appears to disappear |
| soliloquy | long speech alone on stage |
| tragic flaw | something wrong w a character - DOS: willy's hubris |
| seeds | willy's desperate attempt to plant a garden, claiming he has nothing in the ground (symbolizes his lack of life success) |
| masks | actors wore in greek drama |
| greek drama | under umbrella of dramatic irony male actors bottom of hill "megaphone" in masks daytime (no source of light at night) |
| monologue | long speech w others on the stage |
| spite | willy accuses biff of not doing anything w his life out of spite for seeing the other woman |
| aside | actor whispers to audience |
| pathos | suffering from no fault of your own (pathetic character) |
| bug | in the bathroom, caused the other woman to come out and reveal her presence to biff |
| rubber pipe | willy could breathe in gas for suicide: linda takes it away then puts it back when willy's home |
| stolen suit | biff in jail for stealing |
| social realism: ibsen | popular in theatre: DOS is the first play it's in -presents the way society really is |
| hallucinations | willy's deteriorating mental state - reflecting/seeing his past |
| unities: action, place, time | as realistic/logical as possible |
| africa | ben went and got rich, linda kept willy from going |
| free | linda paid off house the morning of willy's funeral - free from debt willy dead - free from lies |
| measure of success | willy - if ppl like you/who you know charlie - wealth=well-liked/success |
| insurance policy | willy died so that biff would get $20,000 and make someone out of himself |
| characters | willy loman, linda, biff (older brother), happy (harold), howard (willy's boss), the other woman, charlie, bernard, uncle ben |
| author | arthur miller |
| greek drama drawing | exposition->rising action->turning point->falling action->climax->resolution |
| 8 pt. analysis | protagonist - willy prize - success obstacle - pride, lies pt. of attack - boston, biff saw the other woman complication - refusal to accept reality climax - house, biff and willy fight resolution - willy commits suicide so biff gets insurance money |
Created by:
alaynak