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20th C. American Drama: Arthur Miller

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Subido el 18 de julio de 2017 por Daniel C.

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Introduction to the drama produced after WWII in America and Arthur Miller and his work Death of a Salesman. Part of a flipped classroom lesson.

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Hi guys! Hi! Here are your teachers, Dani and Lourdes. Today we're going to learn about 20th century American drama. 00:00:00
Exciting! And more specifically about Arthur Miller and his play, Death of a Salesman. 00:00:08
Well, to start with, it is important to contextualize our writer. 00:00:16
After World War II, drama became very successful in America, 00:00:20
because society began to be more and more interested in going to the theater. 00:00:24
Actually, Broadway was at its peak at that time. 00:00:30
One of the reasons why people enjoyed it was because of the kind of settings and stories they could find in plays. 00:00:35
Playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams wrote realistic plays with domestic settings and characters anyone could feel identified with. 00:00:42
As you can imagine, due to these domestic settings, the language used was very colloquial. 00:00:52
So, dialogues basically consisted of short and incomplete sentences with references to a kind of knowledge shared by the family. 00:00:59
Yes, but what was the writer's intention, Annie? 00:01:09
Of course, there was an intention under this formula. 00:01:11
Playwrights used to explore and criticize the political and social situation of the America of the time and its effects on ordinary families. 00:01:14
another common thing in this post-war place was the failure of achieving the american dream 00:01:23
the american dream remember we studied about the american dream in previous lessons that's it it 00:01:31
has to do with that if you try to remember the original idea of the american dream had to do 00:01:37
with freedom of choice self-improvement and hard work however after world war ii this conception 00:01:42
changed due to the rise of capitalism. Now there was just one way of succeeding in society and that 00:01:49
had to do with being able to make money and buy things. For this reason, those families who could 00:01:57
not achieve that felt frustrated and alienated from society. This type of situation and characters 00:02:03
are to be found in the plays of the time. As we said before, we are now moving on to 00:02:11
Arthur Miller as one of the most representative playwrights of this time. Born in Harlem, New York 00:02:18
in 1915, Arthur Miller was always working to help his family. Son of Polish immigrants, the family 00:02:26
had to move to Brooklyn when they faced some economic problems after the Wall Street crash 00:02:34
of 1929. So he grew up in the period of the Great Depression. Miller held a huge variety of jobs 00:02:39
before and after studying at the University of Michigan. He reached success with the play 00:02:49
All My Sons in 1947 and two years later he published Death of a Salesman. This play was 00:02:57
a critical and commercial success and the first play to win a Tony Award apart from 00:03:04
the Pulitzer Prize. 00:03:10
Wow. 00:03:12
Awesome. 00:03:12
But we'll talk about it later in more detail. 00:03:13
In 1956, he married Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe. 00:03:17
Wow. 00:03:22
In fact, Miller was the screenwriter of her last movie, Misfits, directed by John Huston. 00:03:23
Based on a knowledge short story he had written some years before. 00:03:30
Finally, Miller was a man with a strong political commitment. This was a period where he and 00:03:33
many of his Hollywood friends were accused of being communists. He then wrote the screenplay 00:03:40
for the movie version of The Crucible, a metaphor against that witch hunt and the Red Scare 00:03:46
led by Senator McCarthy, by making a comparison with the witch trials of Salem. 00:03:52
died in 2005. He was 89 years old and had written over a period of 60 years. 00:03:59
Okay, so now that you know about the period and about Arthur Miller, let's focus on his 00:04:07
play, Death of a Salesman. 00:04:14
The play criticizes the country's focus on capitalism, materialism, and success in America 00:04:17
after World War II. 00:04:24
Death of a Salesman is a modern triad with a new hero in American literature, an anti-hero. 00:04:25
And what's that? 00:04:34
Simple, it's just a new kind of character who lacks the qualities of the classical hero. 00:04:35
Setting 00:04:43
The play is basically set in Brooklyn, New York. 00:04:44
This is where Willie Loman's house is located, between large and overwhelming apartment buildings. 00:04:47
Technique 00:04:55
There is no narrator, the story is told mainly from the protagonist's point of view. 00:04:55
It ordinates past and present using the stream of consciousness technique and flashbacks. 00:05:01
As you can see in the following scene, Willy escapes his reality by recalling old times 00:05:08
when he was happy with his children. 00:05:14
Plot and Characters 00:05:37
The play follows Willy Loman's life as an over-60 salesman who goes after the American dream even though he's not that great at his job. 00:05:39
The salesman believes his eldest son, Biff, should also become a salesman, projecting his own hopes and dreams. 00:05:48
However, the son goes from job to job because he keeps getting hot stealing. 00:05:56
Despite wanting his father's approval, he doesn't want to be a salesman, but to buy a ranch and raise cattle. 00:06:01
Although Biff knows they are living a lie, they eventually come to terms. 00:06:08
But is this the end of the story, Lourdes? 00:06:14
We'll see. 00:06:16
Okay. 00:06:18
Themes. 00:06:19
In the play we can see the contradiction between two worlds. 00:06:21
Present. 00:06:26
Past. 00:06:27
Success. 00:06:28
Failure. 00:06:29
Dreams. 00:06:31
Reality. 00:06:32
Lying. 00:06:33
Truth. 00:06:34
Betrayal. 00:06:36
Trust. 00:06:37
Okay, so that's all. 00:06:38
Now you know a bit more about the drama produced after World War II in America 00:06:40
and about Arthur Miller and one of his most relevant plays. 00:06:44
But we learned much more about it in class. 00:06:49
We hope you have enjoyed our lesson and we will see you tomorrow in class. 00:06:51
And please don't forget to complete your worksheet. 00:06:56
Bye. 00:06:59
Bye-bye. 00:07:00
Idioma/s:
en
Materias:
Inglés
Autor/es:
Daniel Canalejas y Lourdes Vicente
Subido por:
Daniel C.
Licencia:
Reconocimiento - No comercial
Visualizaciones:
438
Fecha:
18 de julio de 2017 - 0:42
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Público
Centro:
IES CERVANTES
Duración:
07′ 11″
Relación de aspecto:
1.78:1
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