Selling or Being Sold? by Swarnananda Gamage
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K.G.Swarnananda,
Lecturer, English Language Teaching
Unit,
Buddhist and Pali University of Sri
Lanka.
Selling or Being Sold?A Reading of Willy Loman of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman from a
Buddhist Standpoint
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Buddhist Point of ViewW!fKda f,daflda w;s;af;da lreKdodfida W!Kdj mq;ajdk úm;a;s foayx
rÜGmd, iQ;%hMan is always in need of something, dissatisfied and lives as a slave to the crave And subsequently dies under the same circumstances
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Criticism of consumer society and capitalism
Everything has a price, everybody has a price and Everything and everybody is sold one way or the other
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Other related issues that motivated Arthur Miller
Failure of American DreamBeing fed up with the situation created
after industrial revolution Impact of second world warFutility of the concept “ Time is money”
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Buddhism is very much sought after in America now
Richard GyreTina turnerSteve JobsMadonnaBill Clinton
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Drama which came up with the pioneer plays
Caucasian Chalk Circle ( 1945) Death of a salesman (1949) Waiting for Godot (1953)
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Willy Loman’s tragedy
Became a “salesman” seeing Dave Singleman
Victim of consumer society
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Common tragedy “I don’t say he’s a great man... His name
was never in the paper... But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person‘......’’44
Linda Loman
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And he’s exhausted. Instead of walking he talks now. And what goes through a man’s mind, driving seven hundred miles home without having earned a cent. P 45
Linda Loman
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How a “price” of a man fluctuates
I.“The kids are all grown up I don’t need much any more if I could take 65 dollars a week, I could swing it,” P 62
Willy Loman
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II. “Howard, all I need to set my table is 50 dollars a week.’’
P 62
III. “If I had forty dollars a week – that’s all I’d need. 40 dollars, Howard.’’
Howard replies “Kid, I can’t take blood from a stone.’’
P 64
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“I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard and now I can’t pay my insurance ! You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit.’’
P 64
Willy Loman
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Buddhism does not just identify suffering (Dukka) and teach people to face itIt also teaches people how to overcome
suffering
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Reference :“Death of a Salesman’’Arthur MillerPenguin Twentieth – Century ClassicsPenguin Books, London, England 1949
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Thank you !Questions & comments are
most welcome !!