Look at the section from Charley’s entrance to exit

The scene featuring Willy, Charley and Willys fictional vision of his sidekick Ben. This scene provides and excellent acuteness into the main body of the plays ideas and provides a debatable level of dramatic effectiveness which I intend to examine. It break outicularly provides an insight into the ideas of the ro pieceticised, American, capitalist association within the play, Willies smell in being liked and his need to take self-assertion from others being the key part of his rank system and his temperance, pride and lying.I feel the scene conveys Willies self-denial and his fatally woven web of lies well as it highlights how this contributed to his insanity. His pride keeps him from accepting help from Charley when he even confesses I got nothin to give him, Charley, Im clean. This is after Charley offers him a bloodline and Willie tells him I got a good job. He denies help for his family who he clear loves so much because of his pride. He later contradicts himself wh en talking to his projection of Ben, his brother.As his brother is portrayed in Willies imagination as somebody of great similarity but also success, varying from Willie. Willie tells him a different story, desperately seeking self-esteem from Bens approval. This self-denial has left Willie confused as a person and lead to his insanity. He tells Ben business is bad. Its murderous, but not for me. He lies telling Ben this as he feels it will propose him believe it if Ben, a man very much the archetype Willie always tranceed of aspiring to, does too.This is very dramatically effective to twain an audience and a reader as it shows Willies fallibilities in close up all over a short space of time and almost amplifies to them to the extent where they be un-avoidable. The character of Ben, however whitethorn not be quite as effective when reading the play as Miller does not quite make it clear that Ben is actually a dream created by Willie immediately like the other younger character s, leading to confusion initially when Charley does understand who Willie is talking to.This may have been done on purpose to give the reader a feeling of confusion that mirrors that of Willies, causing them to be more immersed in the play. On branch the characters would be much more easily distinguished by use of lighting, positioning and costume in order to determine their origins. Another incidence where Willies self-denial rotting the core of this dysfunctional family is were his flashback is extended to include young Biff and beaming and younger Linda. Young Bernard rushes in to interrupt Willies love-in with Ben and Linda to tell him The watchmans chasing Biff and he has been take again.Willies initial anger and self-denial of Shut up Hes not stealing anything Willy denies to himself the fact that Biff has been stealing, as he loves Biff too much. He gets over this after convincing himself its Biff being done wrong and tells Ben he has nerves of iron. This shows how, inst ead of punishing Biff he has dodged it and consequently done what he sought to avoid by putting aside these events failing as a father, something against what he values. This would be very dramatically effective as it gives a moment of tension and the pace would be fast.This would be a climax to an episode of the play as it is episodic. It also illustrates Bens fallibility as well as Willies as they both agree on this as the right course of action whereas Charlie illustrates a more down-to-earth view. This scene also displays Willies faith in the ideas of the romanticised, American, capitalist society and how they are conveyed in the scene as a whole. Ben is the man of the American dream in many ways, he is a man who is a self-made success and represents the prosperous capitalist.Miller describes him as utterly certain of his destiny and he has an aura of far places about him. Making him seem superior to the other characters, clearly confused and uncertain, particularly Biff and Ha ppy. The idea that Ben was a young man with a faulty view of geography who went and came back rich goes very much along the lines of the idea that anybody can make their fortune in American society. Ben arrogantly preaches this capitalist idea towards his exit where he tells Willy When I walked into the jungle I was seventeen.When I walked out I was twenty-one. And, by God I was rich This shows the audience and the reader the potential success of capitalism but will install doubts in not only Ben but also the idea itself. Firstly, Willies dishonesty will lead you to believe his projection of Ben and his success is greatly exaggerated as he makes him so much like himself. The audience and reader will have also seen Willy, who provides a stark comparison of somebody following the same dream but ending up failing.This section also shows how Willies main principles are those in being liked and his need to take self-esteem from others being the key part of his value system. Ben is large ly the character Willy is trying to impress throughout the scene. As I have mentioned previously, Willy and Ben bare many resemblances as they have similar value systems. For example, being liked is clearly one of them. Also both seem to share a keen belief in perspiration over inspiration. If a man works hard then he can do no more. Willy tries to impress Ben with his sons physical attributes, mainly Biff.Who he dubs a Great athlete. He compares them to Bernard and Charley and reveals his opinions on perspiration when he talks about them inferiorly as they cant hammer a nail This shows the audience about Willys beliefs and again exposes his failure to raise Biff and Happy on his ideas because of his denial and lies. This also shows Willies old-fashioned ways and opinions and how he is set in his ways. This entire scene is used predominantly as a prospect to examine Willy and his ideas and principles in detail.Charley and Ben are used as examples of what Willy admires and aspires to and want to avoid and deter from. Ben in many ways represents the man Willy wanted to be, the successful citizen of a capitalist society, achieved through good honest hard work and belief in the American dream. Charley represents the alternatives to this, which Willy has strived to avoid being and has done, at a cost. He is direct stuck living a false life where even he has forgotten what is real and true, leading to his insanity. This scene is very dramtically effective in displaying that and how it has effected the family as a whole.