Mind map
Death of a Salesman
Mind map: Death of a Salesman
Map content
Death of a Salesman
Themes
- Death in life (Anderson)
- moral responsibility
- social forces
- alienation
Movement
- Realist
- Naturalist
- expressionistic
Devices
- foreshadowings (Ibsen)
- anachonies
- vernacular speech
- self-delusion
- analepsis
- Hamartia
- contradictions
- advertising
- anagnorisis
- linguistic realism (speech style
- dramatic irony
memory play
Motifs
- threat on the common and ordinary
- common man as dramatic hero (Everyman)
- Reversal of myth of A family
- birthright to prosper
- Darwinian implications
- myth of the open road undermined