This article analyzes the subject of American Dream through a reading of Arthur Miller’s "De... more This article analyzes the subject of American Dream through a reading of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman". The author begins the article with a short introduction to American ideals of democracy, freedom and success, and draws parallels between these ideals and their reflections in the play. The American myth of success, flaws of Miller’s new tragic hero and moral questions in relation to the death and the failure of the ordinary man are studied from a social critical perspective of the American Dream with reference to Miller’s other plays.
Pitchline: State violence on innocent individuals causes a vicious circle of fear, loss of consci... more Pitchline: State violence on innocent individuals causes a vicious circle of fear, loss of consciousness and conscience in people while the indifferent power gets out of control for more violence. Synopsis: Basiret, a Kurdish Anatolian young woman, falls in love with Faruk, a young revolutionary Turk, and they get married before the military Coup of 1980. The narrator-writer is Basiret's new neighbor across the road, in Istanbul, in mid 80s. While moving into his new flat, the writer sees Basiret shaking all her dowry pieces out of her window. He watches her through his binoculars and soon Basiret becomes his obsession: he wonders why she is desperately acting so. He remembers his boarding-school days: peeping girls with his best friend, ways of reading banned-books, their first fight and other school memoirs. The writer soon finds himself listening to the grocer telling him Basiret's story. Basiret and Faruk lived happily until the State riot-police busted their home due to some misinformation that Faruk was a terrorist. Basiret was with her neighbors at the time. She heard the shootings, rushed back to her flat only to see her precious dowry pieces in blood. She instantly started shaking her dowry out of the window as Faruk was taken away to the police morgue. The writer wants to interview Basiret for a future novel, goes to Basiret's flat, cannot knock at the door as he is shocked to see Faruk's name on the door. Faruk happens to be his best friend at boarding school. This explains Faruk's long silence to the narrator's correspondence attempts immediately after the Coup. The conspicuity of the stain, made by the dowry lacework, on the whitewash of the block for so many years, scares the writer, so he draws his curtains and collapses at his writing table in despair. As the writer's room gets darker inside, the stain below Basiret's windowsill gets bigger and bigger.
1988-89 Yusuf Eradam won a British Council Scholarship to study TESOL to be able to train teacher... more 1988-89 Yusuf Eradam won a British Council Scholarship to study TESOL to be able to train teachers and train teachers of English how to teach better and to design a course of methodology for Ankara University. The use and usage of international literature with visual material is indispensible in his design here.
1999, While Prof. Dr. Yusuf Eradam was teaching as a Visiting Professor of American and Comparati... more 1999, While Prof. Dr. Yusuf Eradam was teaching as a Visiting Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan
This article analyzes the subject of American Dream through a reading of Arthur Miller’s "De... more This article analyzes the subject of American Dream through a reading of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman". The author begins the article with a short introduction to American ideals of democracy, freedom and success, and draws parallels between these ideals and their reflections in the play. The American myth of success, flaws of Miller’s new tragic hero and moral questions in relation to the death and the failure of the ordinary man are studied from a social critical perspective of the American Dream with reference to Miller’s other plays.
Pitchline: State violence on innocent individuals causes a vicious circle of fear, loss of consci... more Pitchline: State violence on innocent individuals causes a vicious circle of fear, loss of consciousness and conscience in people while the indifferent power gets out of control for more violence. Synopsis: Basiret, a Kurdish Anatolian young woman, falls in love with Faruk, a young revolutionary Turk, and they get married before the military Coup of 1980. The narrator-writer is Basiret's new neighbor across the road, in Istanbul, in mid 80s. While moving into his new flat, the writer sees Basiret shaking all her dowry pieces out of her window. He watches her through his binoculars and soon Basiret becomes his obsession: he wonders why she is desperately acting so. He remembers his boarding-school days: peeping girls with his best friend, ways of reading banned-books, their first fight and other school memoirs. The writer soon finds himself listening to the grocer telling him Basiret's story. Basiret and Faruk lived happily until the State riot-police busted their home due to some misinformation that Faruk was a terrorist. Basiret was with her neighbors at the time. She heard the shootings, rushed back to her flat only to see her precious dowry pieces in blood. She instantly started shaking her dowry out of the window as Faruk was taken away to the police morgue. The writer wants to interview Basiret for a future novel, goes to Basiret's flat, cannot knock at the door as he is shocked to see Faruk's name on the door. Faruk happens to be his best friend at boarding school. This explains Faruk's long silence to the narrator's correspondence attempts immediately after the Coup. The conspicuity of the stain, made by the dowry lacework, on the whitewash of the block for so many years, scares the writer, so he draws his curtains and collapses at his writing table in despair. As the writer's room gets darker inside, the stain below Basiret's windowsill gets bigger and bigger.
1988-89 Yusuf Eradam won a British Council Scholarship to study TESOL to be able to train teacher... more 1988-89 Yusuf Eradam won a British Council Scholarship to study TESOL to be able to train teachers and train teachers of English how to teach better and to design a course of methodology for Ankara University. The use and usage of international literature with visual material is indispensible in his design here.
1999, While Prof. Dr. Yusuf Eradam was teaching as a Visiting Professor of American and Comparati... more 1999, While Prof. Dr. Yusuf Eradam was teaching as a Visiting Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan
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