Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
This is an easy play to understand as long as you do some research on what is meant by the American dream. If you studied Of Mice and Men in Year 11, then you have a head start.
Here are the American dream slides used in class. Use also the buttons on the RHS to link to important documents in US history. The slides below are a work in progress. Here's what we've used in class so far.
Essay 1 - due Friday 29th August 2014 - on your DOAS Essays GoogleDoc
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The essay below is a good piece of literary criticism from The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller.
The button below opens a Word document to help you take notes on the Roudané essay.
Extension: The extract below comes from Jeffrey Mason's book Stone Tower, a more complex critique of Miller than the essay above. No bits have been highlighted for you. Read it and select some apt phrases to quote and cite in your own essays.
The button below will open a GoogleDoc with an extract from your recent essay. Make a copy of this document, then share it with me. Then improve the paragraph by integrating something you read in the Roudabé essay.
Revision resources - critical literacyReview the relevant chapters in Sian Evans's book Through the Literary Looking Glass.
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