DOAS Flashcards
1
Q
‘you can’t eat the orange…
A
and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit’
2
Q
‘nothings planted.
A
I don’t have a thing in the ground’
3
Q
‘I’ve got a line of people to see this morning
A
sit down take five minutes and pull yourself together will ya? I need the office, willy?’
4
Q
AO3
A
- economic boom was thriving (hope and prosper)
- depression affected his family forced him to be a salesman
5
Q
AO4
A
- Robert weil ‘his plays were so universal and affected a whole generation’
- ‘tragedy requires a nice balance between what is possible and what is impossible’ the tragedy of the common man
6
Q
key point opening
A
all hope is tainted by the ‘dark glow’ suggesting that willy is trapped despite all his best efforts. this imagery is repeated in the requiem showing the cyclical nature of the plat affirming that the pressures of 1940s society was the reason for his harmartia.
7
Q
‘towering…
A
angular shapes’
8
Q
the house is…
A
‘fragile’
