“GRIEF AND RESILIENCE LIVE TOGETHER”: AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Authors

  • Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
  • Paul Otoo Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
  • James Gyimah Manu Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
  • Philip Kwame Freitas Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v9i2.23114

Abstract

The present study was carried out to assess Mrs. Obama’s assertion, “grief and resilience live together”, in Miller’s tragedy, Death of a Salesman, from the theoretical perspectives of Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Using a qualitative content analysis, the paper finds that even though the protagonist meets his tragic end through his sufferings and disillusion, he displays unparalleled courage, resilience and optimism, as a common man, in a battle with the capitalist society. The paper affirms the afore-said statement and limns the defects of capitalism and its consequences on its victims – more so their psyche and mental state. With this paper, the researchers seek to expose the ills of capitalism and its devastating effects on the working-class members of the society.

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Author Biographies

Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah, Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. Her research interests are in the area of Literatures of the Diaspora, the contested gendered terrain in Africa, and streetism and its rippling effects on the current generation of Africans. She teaches courses in Literature at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels.

Paul Otoo, Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Paul Otoo is an MPhil candidate and a Graduate Assistant at the Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana and an English tutor at St. Hubert Seminary Senior High School. His research interests focus on trauma studies, child-soldier narratives and titology.

Philip Kwame Freitas, Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Philip Kwame Freitas is an MPhil Candidate at the Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.. He has research interests in bildungsroman in African novels, postcolonial literature, Oral Literature, and literature of the diaspora.

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2022-12-30

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Yeboah, P. A. O., Otoo, P., Gyimah Manu, J., & Freitas, P. K. (2022). “GRIEF AND RESILIENCE LIVE TOGETHER”: AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Celtic : A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics, 9(2), 205–218. https://doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v9i2.23114

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): December 2022

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