Death of a Salesman

 

 

 

Write a research paper which offers some insight into the playwright’s background and/or career AND ALSO analyzes one of his or her plays. You should include the background information about the playwright in the first part of your paper. In the second part, you should analyze a particular piece of work from the playwright. Your thesis should clear, focused, and clearly identifiable in the first or second paragraph of the paper. It can be explanatory, interpretative, or evaluative, but it should include literary techniques such as theme, symbolism, point of view, setting, character, etc. Textual support in the form of concrete, specific examples should be provided in the body of your paper in order to support your claim. Since this is a research paper, you’ll need to incorporate additional secondary sources (a minimum of three sources aside from the play) in order to further support your analysis of the play.
The play is Death of a Salesman