Death of a salesman-marxism & feminism approach

themselves in order to regain their power and rights by

socialism. Moreover, studying literature is equivalent to the study of society, view of life and history of that time.

(2) While Marxists are concerned about social equality, Feminist Critics write about the way women

are depicted in society and their struggle for equality in a male dominated world. According to feminists, men “define what it means to be a human, not woman”, and the society sees females as inferiors or incomplete men. Usually, women are categorized as “angels, bar maids, bitches, whores, brainless housewives, and old maids”. Women define themselves while in the process they also free themselves. Literature did not used to pay particular attention to women until the beginning of the twentieth century. Gynocriticism (the study of women as writers) became famous. The task of this approach was to adapt new models based on women such as biological (how women are seen in a text), linguistic (the differences between men’s and women’s language), psychoanalytic (the female soul) and cultural (the way women understand themselves, society, and

understand: Willy was a salesman. And

spots on your hat, and you’re finished.

(3) The Marxist approach definitely suits Death of a Salesman because it is about social and economic ideas and understanding the world and about capitalism taking advantage of the working class. Primarily, Willy is a middle class business man whose dream is for him and his son to become successful and rich. At the end of the play, he commits suicide because he cannot change his life. Moreover, Biff fails the whole time and Willy is disappointed with him because he does not try to succeed as his father did. As a result, Willy believes that he is responsible for his son’s failure. Willy does not realize that his son does not have the same dreams as he does: “He had the wrong dreams, all, all wrong” (138). As a result, Willy is controlled by superstructure; he does not try to free him self and regain his power. In other words, Willy has two choices: Either succeeding or failing. Besides that maybe Willy Loman (Low + Man) fails becau

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