Wed Oct 31

This was not my slide. #uglyslide

We spent some tie today with an introduction of Death of a Salesman. We used two rather bad powerpoint decks to get us aware of some of the issues in the background of the play.

For example, this film was famous ... or infamous ... back in the early 1980's for demonstrating for the first time what a nuclear war would look like:




We also talked about the playwright himself and did some discussion of what happened to him after DOAS was published. We also talked about the American Dream and how it's been changed from the pursuit of happiness to the happiness of material goods.