Friday, February 22, 2013

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a tragedy in the Hegelian sense of the term?

If Hegel's dialectical path can be evident in Miller's
work, it becomes evident that Willy  is a casualty of this progression.  Hegel's belief
that history is the unfolding dynamic of the thesis and antithesis.  While these terms
never exactly appear in his writing, Hegel's arguments rest upon the understanding of
such ideas


Taking this idea, Willy's predicament is a
result of this collision between thesis and its contradictory antithesis.  Willy
represents the construct of reality that is opposite to the progressing dialectic of
modernity.  The fact that Willy feels silenced and threatened by the modern setting
reveals that he is a casualty of this dialectic, representing the obstacle to synthesis,
or a new thesis emerging.  Willy's lack of embrace of how to function in the modern
setting as well as his inability to make sense of his own place in the modern reality
contributes to his state.  It is in this light that Willy's tragic condition can be seen
as Hegelian

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