Death of a Salesman:A Postmodernist Study Abstract: This study makes an attempt to analyze Death of a Salesman in an attempt to mirror the struggling modern characters who live in the world of postmodernism but are the slave of the preventive beliefs of modernism. This play is the story of all human beings who are in search of success‚ Love‚ Pride‚ and Ambition‚ but are oscillating between the modern and postmodern values. They find themselves disintegrated and isolated in the cruel language
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is considered to be different. The Jewish population as a whole was considered to be outsiders. This caused all reasoning of problems to be placed on Jewish people. Alot could have been avoided if all people were considered the same. In the novel Night‚ Moishe is the archetype of an outsider; he was viewed as different and people didn’t listen to him‚ as he warned of the danger coming‚ and it all changed as the unspeakable happened. An archetype of an outsider is the person who is set up to experience
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did survive. In the midst of these several thousand‚ many remained silent due to their trauma but others shared their experience. Among these shared stories there are words that explain the unspeakable through the eyes of Elie Wiesel‚ Phil Chernofsky‚ and Viktor Frankl. Elie Wiesel was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 when he was just 15 years old. Wiesel was planning to become a rabbi before he and his family
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In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ a young Jewish boy during the time of the Holocaust talks about all of his experiences during these horrific events and everything that he has gone through‚ being stripped from everything but his father and barely managing to survive everyday in the harsh conditions. He was separated from his family and from his friends too‚ most of whom he will not see after the first separation of men and women‚ ever. Elie‚ through all that he faces‚ changes from a sensitive
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Pathos- this is effectively used frequently through out the text so that the speaker gets the audience to be emotional. An example of this is when he says “ to be abandoned by god is worse than to be punished by him” (444). By saying this‚ the speaker get the audience to empathize with the victim‚ put themselves in the victims shoes‚ which gets the emotions and feeling across to all the members of the audience and get then engaged. He uses human emotion as a way to speak out against the holocaust
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QUOTES 1. Take care of your son. He is very weak‚ very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves‚ you must pass selection. Eat! Anything ‚anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don’t last very log around here..” The man that is previously talking to Elie and his father is telling them that they need to do what ever they can to past selection. 2. “The only thing that keeps me alive‚” he kept saying “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them. I would give up.” This means
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As my feet echo through the vast white corridor halls‚ my mind echos throughout my skull. In my sleeve I can feel the light of the single feather‚ warming my hand‚ and the softness of it tickling my palm. I know without looking at it‚ that the colors are swirling and shifting with my touch. It is a thing of beauty‚ but even more so‚ it is a sign. This one single feather‚ is a sign of something to come; of what I know not. Solid black door‚ after solid black door passes by me as I continue on my
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determination in his eyes. Once filled with joy he became cold‚ his eyes turned gray and he grew silent. After many traumatizing and daunting events‚ Eliezer learned to stay quiet. While his dad was being beaten by the German guards‚ Eliezer remembers‚ “My father had just been struck in front of me‚ I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent.” Eliezer was too apprehensive to stand up against the guards as all the traumatic experiences hindered his ability to react to such a horrific event. As noted
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In the memoir Night‚ the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the terrible horrors of the concentration camp “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” (Wiesel 6). Moishe had explained to the people of Sighet the horrors of the concentration camps and what they did there. What the men in the concentration camps did was terribly horrific. Wiesel didn’t have much to say about Moishe’s statements and proclaims‚ in the end he saw at first hand what other
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02 May 2013 Loss of Innocence in Night by Elie Wiesel Is there ever the possibility of the loss of innocence? How can one lose their innocence? What is innocence? The loss of innocence can happen after certain events. These events make kids have to grow up and get independant quickly‚ if not‚ well they can’t survive. That is the loss of innocence. When kids must grow up quickly and learn the truth about the real world and how cruel it can be. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are a number of examples of loss of
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