A Modern Tragedy: Various Archetypes And Critical Guide Of Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller Along With The Text

Book excerpt: About death of a salesman. Hailed as a classic modern tragedy, Arthur miller redefined the contours of modern American drama in his play death of a salesman. Miller vivisects the ills of the concept of the great American dream where everyone wants to become extraordinarily rich. Miller punctures the cult of materialism in this play. The present book attempts to analyse this great work from many different standpoints. About The Author Subhajit Bhadra is an Asst Professor in the PG Department of English, Bongaigaon College, Bongaigaon, Assam. He is a gold medalist from the Tezpur Central University. Till now he has published various national and international seminar papers in books and anthologies. He is the author of A Panorama of Indian Writing in English, (published by Authors Press), The Rising Sun. (published by Authors Press), The Man Who Stole the Crown, Selected Stories of Arun Goswami, both published by Swastik publication, A History of English Literature (Published by Chandra Prakash), The Masked Protagonist in Jewish American Fiction. He specializes in American literature, Indian writing in English and postcolonial literature in English. He has also widely published in Sahitya Akademi's bi- monthly journal Indian Literature.