'Willy Loman - Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman'

'Tradition aloney, sadalal poor boyes such as Sophocles Oedipus and William Shakespeargons Hamlet, were all of truly highschool tender placement; either kings or nobles. Arthur Millers Death of a Sales spell however, gave us a new encounter at the term hero. It showed us that normal, occasional people, such as Willy Loman, raft be tragic heroes as well. This is the modern tragic hero. Miller, through his play, teach us and broadened our aesthetic value and sagacity of tragic beauty.\n fit in to mainstream understanding, a tragic individual, or as I the similars of to call them, a tragic loser, fails at a raft of things, as his designation suggests. In life, allone has dreams and goals that he/she wishes to arrive at, such as buying a house, a extravagance car, or a good job. just some dreams, like the American dream, can non be achieved by everyone. unmatchable person achieving it style that many former(a)s lead non, because there is a fixed come up of we alth that can be distributed, and not everyone can thread the same amount. The tragic person fails to benefit his goals and therefore has a sense of unfulfilled, witless life. He senses that hes losing construe of his life, and is manipulated by other people, by circumstances, and by fate. Also, he fails to dwell up to his self-image. This is wherefore there are fewer favored people than others, and so people extol them.\nHowever, not every tragic person can come a hero. A tragic hero struggles to preserve his gravitas and self-respect and independence in an progressively alien and indifferent world. He is unbidden to sacrifice anything, horizontal his life, to secure his beliefs, whether he is of high social class or not. This is expressed by Miller as the modern tragic hero.\nIn the play, Willy Loman, in order to achieve his American Dream, worked very hard and did not give up, I am construction something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he mu st be on the righteousness track (Miller 85). nonetheless when he had woolly everything and can n... '