DOAS Flashcards

Question

A1: Biff: ‘Because I know he’s a fake…

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…and he doesn’t like anyone around who knows’

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…better in the morning.’

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…an aspirin?’

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…It’s always that way.’

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***…patience***

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***…a visible colour on him’***

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…a pig’

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… fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two week vacation'

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…gorgeous creatures’

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Twilight, the bottomless abyss, madness and death. Willy battles with all of these, and ultimately comes to embody the ‘will to power’ in his choice to kill himself.

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…man in the world’. (The woman’s laughter is heard)

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…sense of competition or something’

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…of respect for you’ A1

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... helped by so many different people?’

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…in the front stoop than in all the sales he ever made’

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…wrong dreams.’

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…a thing in the ground’

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- The absurd for Camus was the lack of meaning to life. He starts his book ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ by contemplating why we don’t just kill ourselves if life has no ultimate goal/inherent meaning. Willy’s choice to do so can be seen as a sacrifice to his primary false idol: reputation.

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…temporary about myself’ A1

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…fresh air in the neighbourhood’

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…who he was.’

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- In the requiem, Biff use it to address Happy. This cements the ideological divide between them now, Happy remains in his petulant state and Biff evolves past the mould his father has created for him.

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…die in vain.’

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…it out here and this is where I’m gonna win it for him.’

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…I can’t cry’

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…on the house today’

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…We’re free…We’re free.’

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…my whole life has been.’

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…dozen pop, and so are you.’

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…but he’s not well liked.’

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…the furnace room!’

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To Linda: ‘People don’t seem to take to me.’ ‘They seem to laugh at me.’ 'I'm not noticed'. Sons: ‘I went north to Providence. Met the Mayor.’

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…in New England.’

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…the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force.’

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… the stable environment is what terrifies.’

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...for ten minutes in this house!' A2

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..., and neither are you.'A2

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... to come out number-one man.' Req.

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... that's what's ruining this country' A1

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..., a dream rising out of reality” A1

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...a silver athletic trophy stands” A1

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... or, in some places, partially transparent” A1

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...was her name? A1

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...so grey' (to Linda) A1

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...I teach them?' A1

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...kill himself' A2

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...you down' A2

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...she admires him.' (A1) This is crucial, and it is what Willy desires above all else. The key difference between love and admiration is that the latter connotes a desire to be like them. Will has wanted to be someone else his whole life, he wants that to be reciprocated.

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...Edison' (A1)

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... his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties' (A1)

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...lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end' (A1)

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...the death' A1

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... delicately' A1

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...Wagner was alive I'd have been in charge of New York now' (A1)

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... gets back there' A2

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...on a farm? Is that a life?' A1

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...lazy bum' A1 ... he's not lazy' A1

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...elm trees... They should have arrested the builder for cutting them down.' A1

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... and my support Linda' A1

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... is to be outdoors' A1

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...in the middle of the store and outbox that goddam merchandise manager.' A1

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...are burning' A1

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...of his destiny, and there is an aura of far places about him' A1

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...rugged, well-liked, all round.' A1

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...that ever lived. But he's a human being and a terrible thing is happening too him'

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...and he doesn't like anyone around who knows'

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...iron repression of her exceptions to Willy's behaviour' Could this perhaps suggest she knows about the affair

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...great and very wild-hearted man' A1

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...fight, dear?'

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...that's just a guy' A2

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...is what you can sell' A2

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He clings to the illusion of self-sufficiency.

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- He cannot accept how impersonal and cruel the world is; how callous capitalism demands people be. - He also conflates popularity with love, although the former will rapidly fade into irrelevance.

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...is to be outdoors'

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...in your hands'

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...I'm constantly lowering my ideals'

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- He says: 'take that phony dream and burn it before something happens'

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...tired Ben. Act 1, he says this to Charley, mistaking him for Ben

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... is not a man. You're disgusting.' To charley Act 1

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...a stranger, boy.' he has just pinned him on the ground with his umbrella.

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...this entire front stoop right now! Watch this, Ben!'

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His conversation with Ben during his card game with Charley, his family (all imagined) participate.

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- Willy is self-critical. - he perhaps contorts Ben's real nature into a hyper-capitalist version. - he is perhaps convinced that Ben would look down on his status, territory and wealth.

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- he walks 'through the wall-line of the kitchen'

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For the 'secret'

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Willy mentions selling, and since Ben is a figment of Willy's imagination he may be expressing a repressed shame about his profession - he is hardly self-made.

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personality

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...respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it.'

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[barely interested] [Willy stands up. Howard has not looked at him]