By Eric Houdek\u00a0<\/p>\n
As we talked about earlier, there were two metaphors from the play that encompassed the whole meaning of the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Howard: Kid, I can’t take blood from a stone(Pg. 81)<\/p>\n
Willy: The world is an oyster, but you can’t crack it open on a mattress.(pg. 41)<\/p>\n
Both of these metaphors summarize the play itself.\u00a0 Willy Loman is a man who believes that being well liked by everyone will lead\u00a0to sucess in the real world.\u00a0 This is evident when he tells Biff that Bernard will never succeed in the real world because being a book worm does nothing to add to his popularity.\u00a0 This ties in to the fact that Willy is a delusional character. Although he literally sees delusions throughout the course of the play, Willy has a warped perception of reality.\u00a0 Willy embraces the American dream, which is to “make it big” and to take care of his family.\u00a0 However, Willy uses the salesman Dave Singleman to make the decision to use “salesmanship” as the means to achieve the American dream.\u00a0 There is nothing deceptive about Singleman’s name.\u00a0 He dies a SINGLE MAN, and most likely he didn’t die with a lot of money, for he had to be out working at the age of 84.\u00a0 It is with a warped sense of reality that Willy sets out to conquer the world.\u00a0 Raising his children, Willy chooses not to instill many disciplinary values in his children, and even looks down upon Charley’s son Bernard for being a nerd.\u00a0 As time passes by, and it is evident that many of Willy’s means of achieving success have not been successful, Will still comes to the conclusion that he can take care of his family by killing himself to achieve an insurance reward of $20,000.\u00a0 He commits this act, but once again, he is using the wrong means to address the problem.\u00a0 He leaves his wife a widow, his son Biff has no intentions of using money for the sake of business and has plans of moving away, and it is entirely possible that the insurance company did not even honor the policy.<\/p>\n
SO WE NEED TO FINALIZE OUR METAPHOR…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Eric Houdek\u00a0 As we talked about earlier, there were two metaphors from the play that encompassed the whole meaning of the play.\u00a0 Howard: Kid, I can’t take blood from a stone(Pg. 81) Willy: The world is an oyster, but you can’t crack it open on a mattress.(pg. 41) Both of these metaphors summarize the … Continue reading Idea and Metaphor- Metaphor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-4-idea-and-metaphor","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}