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英语毕业论文开题报告

On Expressionism in Death of a Salesman

解读《推销员之死》中的表现主义

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1.本课题的来源及研究意义

“Death of a Salesman” talks about a tragic hero-Willy Loman. Moved by Arthur Miller`s sincere inquiry into common life of Willy Loman in the American society, I began to collect relevant information about Arthur Miller`s works, especially the book—“Death of a Salesman”. Because of the limited resources, my survey mainly concentrates on the domestic journals. According to my survey, I find most of articles are about the disillusionment of the American Dream and tragedy in “Death of a Salesman”. There are few of articles dealing with techniques adopted in the play. And if it comes to the artistic techniques, the focus is mainly on some expressionistic techniques used in the play, such as dream, stream of consciousness, but there is no systematic analysis of the expressionistic techniques adopted in the play. So it is necessary to make a systematic analysis of expressionism. And the previous studies provide new, more effective study methods and more appropriate angles for me to provide a more comprehensive, systematic perspective on the study of “Death of a Salesman”

2本课题的基本内容

Arthur Miller is one of the most famous dramatists in contemporary American literature. He writes a lot of plays and influential essays that do a good deal in fostering his reputation as an international playwright. “Death of a Salesman” is Arthur Miller`s masterpiece. It is a drama set in 1949 in New York city and Boston. It is a tragedy of American Dream. The play is grouped in realism, but it also contains elements of expressionism, that is to say, much of “Death of a Salesman” is conveyed expressionistically through Loman’s mind and memory. This paper discusses the background information about expressionism. The great emphasis is laid on expressionistic features in depicting the character in “Death of a Salesman”. And the thesis also deals with some expressionistic devices such as design of stage setting, changeable music and light and talks on the play’s language characteristics which expose in theatrical and psychological terms, the Willy’s mental activities. Through the analysis, it can be seen that externalization of inner psyche almost alternates the whole drama.

3.本课题的重点、难点及创新点

The expressionists are not interested in normal life living at the normal level. Instead, they strive to show human being`s exceptional and extreme mental and psychological situations, especially their state of ecstasy, In order to be free to create their own subjective universe, they always adopt absurd, dream-like and fantastic devices. Illusions, dreams and fantasies are always mixed together. Also “Death of a Salesman’’ mainly try to externalize Willy’s psychological activities, so I choose the study of the externalization of Willy`s inner psyche as the focus, that is, flashbacks in the form of consciousness in the drama. So Arthur Miller mixes up the normal pattern of time and space, furthermore he combines Willy’s nice memories and amazing illusions with his miserable reality by means of flashbacks in the form of stream of consciousness.

The difficult point is that two techniques of connecting some seemingly irrelevant past scenes with present events. First, Miller emphasizes the link between the past and the present. Second, Miller makes use of the free association to connect the past with the present.

The innovative point is that the music used on the stage is characterized, that is, through different music theme of different individual not only sets off the mood but also helps to express the character`s inner psyche and the character`s personality.

4.论文提纲

Ⅰ. Introduction

1. Arthur Miller`s major work and his background information

2. The outline of the thesis

Ⅱ. The Expressionism Presented in Character