论《推销员之死》的人物塑造.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 18 论《推销员之死》的人物塑造 摘要：《推销员之死》是美国当代著名戏剧家阿瑟·密勒的伟大著作，在1949年于纽约首映日起，随即在整个每个戏剧圈内引起了巨大的轰动。密勒也因此剧接连获得纽约戏剧家评论奖和普利策奖等诸多奖项，也由此与田纳西·威廉姆斯和尤金·奥尼尔并肩齐名成为美国二十世纪最杰出的戏剧家。 《推销员之死》无疑是阿瑟·密勒戏剧创作生涯中巅峰代表作，可是早前对《推销员之死》的研究多数关注于小人物是否能成为悲剧主人公上，鲜少有人问津密勒的家庭背景。而本文恰是以密勒的家庭为视角剖析《推销员之死》中的主要重要人物。本文仔细审视了作者的家庭背景和当时美国的社会背景，尤其是1929年美国经济大萧条时候的社会背景，以此能够准确剖析人物的构建关系。 本文详尽介绍了作者的家庭背景和时代背景，全面分析了威利·洛曼的人物形象塑造后发现这个主人公是由多个人物形象糅合而成的，包括了不少或虚构或真实的人物故事。此外分析主人公妻子琳达和彼夫、哈皮，他的两个儿子，得知所有剧中人物的塑造都受到了作者家庭和美国社会的影响，不仅改变了作者对艺术的认知，在剧中人物身上也可窥见一斑。 关键词：阿瑟·密勒；推销员之死；犹太身份；人物；类型 An Analysis of the Creation of the Characters in Death of a Salesman Abstract: Death of the Salesman was acknowledged as the greatest work of Arthur Miller, the most outstanding American playwright. It shocked the American theater when it made a debut in New York in 1949. Because of this play, Arthur Miller not only won the Pulitzer and the New York Drama Critic’s Award, but also since that he had been acknowledged as one of three most outstanding dramatists in America, along with Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. There is no doubt that Death of the Salesman is the work at the summit of his art creation. Most critics viewed this play on whether a common man can become a tragic hero, but a few explored Arthur Miller’s family background. But this thesis analyzes the main characters from the angle of the family of the author. And it critically looks at the author’s family background and the social situation at that time, especially the great recession in America in order to analyze precisely author’s building of the main characters. This thesis thoroughly introduces the backgrounds of author’s family and the American society, meanwhile, it comprehensively analyze the main characters’ creation. Then it finds out the hero is created by mixing many images, containing both fictions and realities. Besides it studies the wife Linda, two sons, Biff and Happy. Then it discovers a close link between Miller’s family, American society and the building of those