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1、Arthur Miller(1915-2005) PPT makers: 毛金彪、汤贺彩 Material collectors：李佳佳、郭树英、 付俊华、王秀丽Speaker：王珂珂王珂珂LifeArthur Miller was born in a middle class Jewish family in New York. His father had been a prosperous clothing manufacturer who was, however, ruined by the crash of the 1929.Miller finished high school
2、during the Depression when his family suddenly became poor. He went to work in a warehouse where he saw the injustices of the capitalist system and the hardships of workers. Then he saved enough money to study journalism at the University of Michigan.At the university he began writing plays. He won
3、a Hopwood Award in Drama for his first play entitled “Honors at Dawn.” He graduated from the university in 1938. Then he wrote a dozen plays before his first Broadway production in 1944-The Man Who Had All the Luck. With the success of All My Sons in 1947, he devoted himself entirely to drama.Short
4、SummaryAmerican playwright and essayist. A prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for over 61 yearsA wide variety of dramasMiller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence against others to the House Un-American Activities CommitteeRecipient of the Pulitzer Pr
5、ize for Drama among countless other awards, and for his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller is considered by audiences and scholars as one of Americas greatest playwrights and his plays are lauded throughout the world.MarriageIn 1940, Miller met Mary Slattery in the university. They got married. Afte
6、r marriage, they had a daughter and a son ,Jane and Robert. They divorced in 1956.At the same year, on June 29, Miller got married with Marilyn Monroe. But the marriage is not ideal, finally, in 5 years ended in failure. They divorced in 1960.And Miller married again in 1962. At the same year, Monro
7、e took her own life. Although Miller and Monroe ended in failure, but to Arthur miller, it provides two plays material, one is After the fall(失足之后) in1964, and the other is Finishing the Picture(完成画像)， played in Chicago Goodman theatre in 2004, it can be said to be his last an important work. In the
8、 1961 movie the Misfits（不合时宜的人） are Arthur millers specifically creation for Monroe, and she finally completed a movie.Stage plays荣誉的真谛荣誉的真谛（Honors at Dawn，1935）天之骄子天之骄子（The Man Who Had All the Luck，1944）吾子吾弟吾子吾弟（All My Sons，1947）推销员之死推销员之死（Death of a Salesman，1949）炼狱炼狱 （The Crucible，1953）忆两个星期一忆两个星
9、期一（A Memory of Two Mondays，1955）桥上一瞥桥上一瞥（A View from the Bridge，1955）堕落之后堕落之后（After the Fall，1964）维琪事件维琪事件（Incident at Vichy，1965）代价代价（The Price，1968）创世纪及其他创世纪及其他（The Creation of the World and Other Business，1972）大主教之屋大主教之屋（The Archbishops Ceiling，1977）美国钟美国钟（The American Clock，1981）一位女士的挽歌一位女士的挽歌（E
10、legy For a Lady，1982）某种爱情故事某种爱情故事（Some Kind of Love Story，1982）危险：记忆！两部剧本危险：记忆！两部剧本（Danger: Memory!: Two Plays，1986）我什么都不记得我什么都不记得（I Cant Remember Anything）与）与克拉瑞克拉瑞（Clara）骑下摩根山骑下摩根山（The Ride Down Mt. Morgan，1991）最后的洋基最后的洋基（The Last Yankee，1993）碎玻璃碎玻璃（Broken Glass，1994）彼得斯先生的连线彼得斯先生的连线（Mr. Peters Co
11、nnections，1998）莱恩面访莱恩面访（The Ryan Interview，2000）复活蓝调复活蓝调(Resurrection Blues )(2004)完成图画完成图画（Finishing the Picture，2004）Screenplay不合时宜的人，（The Misfits，1961）人民公敌（An Enemy of the People，改写自亨利易卜生（Henrik Ibsen）原著，1966）时间游戏（Playing for Time，电视剧本 ，1980）人人皆赢（Everybody Wins，1989）Death of a SalesmanWilly Lowma
12、n the father -hypocritical(虚伪的 ), tends to talk big, timid(胆小的 )Linda the mother Biff the elder sonHappy the younger sonCharley a neighborBernard Charley sonHoward Willy s BossIntroductionDEATH OF A SALESMAN (1949) brought Miller international fame, and become one of the major achievements of modern
13、 American theatre. It relates the tragic story of a salesman named Willy Loman, whose past and present are mingled in expressionistic scenes. Loman is not the great success that he claims to be to his family and friends. The postwar economic boom has shaken up his life. He is eventually fired and he
14、 begins to hallucinate about significant events from his past. Linda, his wife, believes in the American Dream, but she also keeps her feet on the ground. Deciding that he is worth more dead than alive, Willy kills himself in his car , hoping that the insurance money will support his family and his
15、son Biff could get a new start in his life. Critics have disagreed whether his suicide is an act of cowardice or a last sacrifice on the altar of the American Dream. Death of a SalesmanThe script indicates that the rules of social life in America is Losers havent rights to survive. Willie didnt succ
16、eed, so he had to go to his doom. Willie had been sure that he was supposed to succeed, but he didnt know the society and himself well. He was hungry for life happiness which had already been deprived by the civilized society. The only thing he could do was watching the end of all his hopes. He pass
17、ed on his unrealized dreams to his next generation, but this put them into much trouble in spirit. For his unrealized dreams could not point the way to success, but mislead them or have bad effects on them. Therefore, his sons turned into useless playboys, and the next generation was incorrigible. T
18、he composition goes against the theory American Legend through the failures of two generations. It has succeeded in structural arrangement, space-time processing, characterization and complex emotions description.When this American drama premiered in 1949, Death of a Salesman was an instant success
19、and secured Arthur Millers place as one of the great American playwrights of the 20th century. Considered both an attack on the ideals that had, for the last 160 years, constituted the American dream for prosperity and material wealth as well as a compelling portrayal of a man trapped by his past, D
20、eath of a Salesman manages the most delicate of balances. The play is an authentic and realistic portrayal of family in the middle of the twentieth century, but its also a deeply symbolic, expressionistic drama.ThemesThe American DreamAbandonment/BetrayalThe Dangers of Modernity Gender Relations Mad
21、ness Nostalgia Opportunity Growth The famous American playwright Arthur Miller, and on February 10th, 2005, in the United States for the evening died of heart failure.We lost a giant. In 1999 the Broadway plays the salesmans death director Robert f, said, he showed unusual art. Playwright Edward Albi, memories to miller used to use we need praise his drama, and al said: I will further said Arthurs drama is what we must.THANK YOU!
