CONTEXT

Question 1

WW1

Answer 1

priori of financial wealth-rural>cities
prosperous life expansion in ind sector

Question 2

wall st crash

Answer 2

decide of economic growth, begun Great Depression’panic sell off drops in demand , unemployment

Question 3

american dream

Answer 3

if yo work hard, you will achieve anything
poverty/sexism/racist/prejudice prevents
finanical available to anyone?

Question 4

Arthur miller events:

Answer 4

father lost business in wsc, ww2 focus on domestic property(cars/fridge)media promotes=fails willy as already taken

Question 5

context/opening scene connections

Answer 5

scenes of past= boundaries broken-confusing-illustarte state of mind?
angular shapes= harsh reality of capatilsm,rapped,ineq,hierachy,failure ad
windonws/liminal state=people don’t know where stand after wsc
air dings in place (always their/georgpahy context)

Question 6

mobile concurrency

Answer 6

only in doas-unique)past and present coming together, confusing -flashbacks are fragmented
-no flashbacks in play only mc of past+present-desperation to justify his life destroy boundries
can’t trust his mem- rewrote them(LINKS STAGING)

Question 7

structure of play

Answer 7

‘persuaded by dreams’ ‘interest not about what will happen to his family but how it happens
AM-‘explode of watch/calander’

Question 8

MASCULINITY
-post war masculine malaise
GRANT WILLIAMS

Answer 8

American masc identity ‘real villian’ to willy downfall/other men In social due to great depression-evoked older gen/benard took his time, ‘anxiety on masc compentacy’
+lack of father’linked inedibly to his identity’
CROSSROADS
happy illustrates confusion

Question 9

men who achieved AD
masculinity

Answer 9

18thc George washington’solider/army commander/president farmer
19/20c Rockefeller-oily tycoon(willy born in era of billionares/ideas-all taken-capatilsm)

Question 10

‘frontiers man/fronteir’
masculinity

Answer 10

push boundaries /explore new places/out in wilderness facing down nature-however America already been settled by time willy born

Question 11

1948
masculinity

Answer 11

army fighting solider, strong physically able-cars (Willys broke)+cowboys all manly ideas mixed together

Question 12

GEOGRAPHY
piia mcgregor
BOSTON

Answer 12

willy tells story ‘David singleman’ who died ‘in smoked going to Boston’-New England man-were father begun
audience see both blatant flaws
father:abadonment David:singularity of circumstance/fortune/funeral
willy claims ‘700 gross in Boston>20’ but still idealised place + represents failure moral man(cheating linda admiration of women)

Question 13

FLORIDA fix all solution

Answer 13

happy sent willy due to mumbling + ‘Loman brothers-sport business’>solve Willys problems unrealistic bill Oliver 15k+biff lies
=all family allows one another to fuel unrealistic expectations, Florida is source of easy solution like jungle easy wealth

Question 14

alaska/africa

Answer 14

ben -fast wealth ‘opportunity is tremdous’-lies as ended up in Africa-ilusion broken.
willy retells ben story : strength of character over hard work, quick funds over slow poverty
AM : determination/rules = beard lawyer

Question 15

symbolic locations

Answer 15

each loc diff hope - unrealistic expectations
stage direction ‘air of dream lingers to Loman home’ will never associate with just 1 place- always wish to be somewhere else

Question 16

symbolism diamond mines

Answer 16

explosive,dangerous, cruel- colonising african people becoming rich of their labour-capatlism
also wealth and success gained through exploration(selling)linking to consumer trickery/profit driven industry’s

Question 17

flute begging and now

Answer 17

meaning changes and becomes high/rollicking - reflects how willy mind become more erratic/panicked

Question 18

hercules/adonis
‘biff=hercules+pair of adonises’

Answer 18

greek tragic figure(attractiveness/part mortal, driven mad from gods/forced through seemingly endless labour)women go mad over a death/reowned beauty/killed by pig

LINKS:willy going mad imagining things+work+perception, belive sons are like gods or wants them ti be shows how willy death played out

Question 19

stockings symbollisaton

Answer 19

willys corrupt morals and also having to fix the stockings(no wealth)
willy wants to prove himself even more, feels let linda down,consumerism item

Question 20

seeds

Answer 20

links to growing and planting things, not able to as taken up by flats(blocking sunlight), enhances delusion and connecting to old ad

Question 21

consumerism

Answer 21

buys new appliances after ww1(car/frige)had a hasting and says good the bad, mentions he doesn’t want to waste money but sells himself to the product and advertisement been fooled like ad, links to now with social media becoming more common business everyones trying to become famous easily, chasing clout, normalised