sons and fathers

Develop a 5-6 page reserach essay on the play story attached based on the following topic and reserach question:

 

TOPIC: Father & Sons

 

RESERACH QUESTION: How does the portrayal of Willy Loman’s life indirectly and directly affect the expectations of his sons, Happy and Biff?

 

 

The theme as it relates to sons and fathers, suggests that the main character, a father of two sons, strives to make his children what he would have them to be instead of who they individually chose to be. Not realizing that his own behavior primarily contributed to their rift.

 

Be sure to include dramatic elements used (i.e. foreshadowing, soliloquy, unities, conflict, symbols, style, tone, setting, irony, imagistic language, tragic, realism, etc.)

 

Also be sure to use the following as resource:

 

Ribkoff, Fred. “Shame, Guilt, Empathy, and the Search for Identity in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.” Modern Drama 43.1 (Spring 2000): 48-55. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 179. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.