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Who Is to Blame for Willy Loman’s Death? — On Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

2010· article· en· W1893321483 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Zheng Dan-qing

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTragedy (event)MillerDreamHumanitiesPsychoanalysisHistoryArtPsychologyLiterature

Abstract

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In 1949 Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Death of a Salesman. This play presents the last twenty–four hours in the life of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman aged sixty–three. Willy Loman lives a tragic life. He is a failure as a father, a husband and a worker. At last, he commits suicide. The present paper starts with making a summary of the plot and presenting the value of the study on Willy Loman’ death. Then, it discusses some social factors in Willy Loman’s death, such as the influence of the American Dream and the Great Depression. It also makes a detailed study on the flaws in the character of Willy Loman, some of which contribute to his own death. The paper aims at a further study on Willy Loman’s death and attempts to put forward the author’s view on various causes of his death. Key words: social tragedy, personal tragedy, the American Dream, flows Resume: En 1949 Arthur Miller a ete attribue le Prix Pulitzer pour sa Mort d’un commis voyageur. Cette piece presente les dernieres 24 heures de la vie de Willy Loman, un commis voyageur âge de 63 ans. Willy Loman a connu une vie tragique. Il est une defaite en tant que pere, epoux et employe. Finalement, il se suicide. L’article present commence par le resume de l’histoire et la presentation de la valeur d’etude de la mort de Willy Loman. Ensuite, il traite des facteurs sociaux de sa mort, tels que les influences du Reve americain et de la Grande Depression. Il fait aussi une etude detaillee des defauts de caractere de Willy Loman dont certains contribuent a sa mort. L’article vise a une recherche approfondie sur la mort du heros et tente d’avancer l’opinion de l’auteur sur les causes variees de sa mort. Mots-Cles: tragedie sociale, tragedie personnelle, Reve americain, defauts

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.899
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.070
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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