Arthur Miller와 表現主義-Death of a Salesman을 중심으로-

In this dissertation I wish to explore some dominating elements of expressionistic devices-such as musical motifs and sets, lighting and characters and costumes-reflected in Death of a Salesman. As you know, Miller says that the first image of Salesman that occurred to him was of an enormous face the height of the proscenium arch: the face would appear and then open up. The story would be acted as if it were taking place inside the mind of his hero. By the time he had completed Salesman. Miller had found a more subtle correlative for the giant head. Therefore, the play was to be called A Man's Head. I can find that Miller used much more subtle techniques, substituting a transparent setting for bisected head, and that Miller invited the audience to examine the social context as well as the individual organization, and keeping Willy's mental disintegration as the center of the action. This play covers barely 24 hours, when Willy moves from mental and physical fatigue through increasingly painful memories to hallucination and suicide. Because our understanding of background and motive depends on the information provided by Willy's inner turmoil, we are drawn relentlessly into his mind. His suffering is immediate and overwhelming. Accordingly we stay inside the man's head for most of the play. In the end it seems to me that the balance between expressionistic and realistic moments in Death of a Salesman is its highest achievement through this delicate, dramatic balance.