【正文】 platform, stage scenery, stage properties, lighting and so on. The interplay of those interlocking elements, acting as a whole, influences the charm and charisma of plays. Stage Scenery In Death of a Salesman mingle the present reality, the reminiscence of the past and Willy?s hallucinatory experiences. Still, this kind of temporal and spatial crisscross expands the limited stage space to a boundless range, instead of bringing to it a sense of confusion and chaos. 6 In Act One, Miller gives a detailed introduction to the stage scenery: “The entire setting is wholly or, in some places, partially transparent. The roofline of the house is onedimensional。米勒；《推銷員之死》；舞臺(tái)設(shè)計(jì)；人物塑造；情節(jié)安排 2 Introduction One of the major playwrights of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan on 17 October, 1915, the second son of Isadore Miller, a welltodo but almost illiterate clothing manufacturer, who lost his wealth after the stock market crash in 1929 and Augusta Bart Miller, a schoolteacher as well as an avid reader. At the University of Michigan, he became conscious of German Expressionism, August Strindberg, and Henrik Ibsen, and began to delve into plays. He died in Connecticut on February 10, 2020. Arthur Miller?s early Broadway plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), which earned him a Theater Guild award, All My Sons (1947), which gained the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and Death of a Salesman (1949), his masterpiece. In the following two decades, his major works prise one adaptation of Henrik Ibsen?s play An Enemy of the People (1950) as well as The Crucible (1953), A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), A View from the Bridge (1955), After the Fall (1964) and Incident at Vichy (1964) and so on. Throughout his literary career, he incessantly exposes several distinct but related social and psychological issues in both his dramatic and expository writings: the innovative form of tragedy still breaking the shackles of conventions and initiating a new era of dramatic position, the relationship and conflicts between the masses and the society, as well as family relations, particularly those between fathers and sons. Insisting that the individual is doomed to frustration when once he gains a consciousness of his own identity, Miller synthesizes elements from 3 social and psychological realism to depict the individual?s pilgrimage for identity within a repressing society. After Arthur Miller?s masterpiece Death of a Salesman opened at the Morosco Theater on February 10, 1949, it gained fame overnight. 742 performances on Broadway and touring the country, it spread its reputation nationwidely. Within a year after its premiere, the play was virtually on stage in every major city in the United States, and within a few years it began its phenomenal run of international productions. It won monumental awards, including the New York Drama Critics? Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The play has long been examined from the perspective of Realism and social criticism. Admittedly, based in large part on the experiences of Miller?s family during the Depression and the difficulties of living the American Dream, the play lays stress on realistic living conditions of the general public and deals a heavy blow on that dogeatdog economic system: Willy, a travelling salesman who has two sons, Biff and Happy, whom he has tried to raise to bee men of influence and power, has been recently fired. He and his wife Linda are struggling to pay the bills, while the two sons are not helpful. However, throughout the play we can get a clear view that Lomans, particularly Willy, cannot distinguish between reality and illusion more or less. The author uses an epochmaking method to reveal the actors? psychological ups and downs through a bination of spatiotemporal transformation and psychological externalization, which falls to the category of Expressionism. Having made its debut in France in 1910, Expressionism was 4 introduced to Germany and affected a wide range of fields of art and literature. As far as Expressionists concerned, the fundamental reality exists in human?s inner world, enpassing man?s spirit, soul, desire and fantasy. Therefore, they lay emphasis on human beings? psyche and intent to fully express the emotional drifts and waves exclusive to the human race. As a result, Expressionism came to existence. Its distinctive features can be mainly found in the techniques of expression and the artistic characteristics: protagonists? mental activities, rather than the plot framework, prove to be the core of a successful dramatic work。通過以上三方面的研究，本文從表現(xiàn)主義的角度解讀了《推銷員之死》的藝術(shù)魅力?！锻其N員之死》是其最典型和最具影響力的戲劇。其關(guān)注焦點(diǎn)始終是生活在美國社會(huì)并與之斗爭的個(gè)人。 plotting 摘要： 阿瑟 stage design。 三、湖南師范大學(xué)本科畢業(yè)論文答辯記錄表 論文題目 Expressionist Tactics in Death of a Salesman 作者姓名 所屬院、專業(yè)、年級 外國語學(xué)院 英語專業(yè) 2020 年級 指導(dǎo)教師 姓名、職稱 曹波 教授 答 辯 會(huì) 紀(jì) 要 時(shí)間 地點(diǎn) 答辯 小組 成員 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 姓 名 職務(wù)（職稱） 答辯中提出的主要問題及回答的簡要情況記錄： 會(huì)議主持人簽名： 記錄人簽名： 年 月 日 答 辯 小 組 意 見 評語： 評定等級： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 年 月 日 學(xué) 院 意 見 評語： 論文學(xué)院最終評定等級： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 學(xué)院（公章） 年 月 日 學(xué) 校 意 見 評語： 評定等級： 負(fù)責(zé)人（簽名）： 年 月 日 Contents Abstract .................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1 Stage Design ......