the insurance company to help his sons start a business They will be successful in the future It is realistic because every father wants success for his children So it is the reality of life that most procreators will abandon their lives for their children I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been Naturalism Naturalism comes to light from realism Darwin's theory According to Darwin Nature is the best way of learning and gaining In naturalism the instructed factor determines the production of a man s life as in a social situation Willy Loman tries to persuade the American Dream and the American empiricist method He has provided the best service to the Wagner Company throughout his life He is now an old man He doesn t get a company salary but only a commission for product selling So the fact is that with time human beings lose their position and status because every man has his own time Expressionism Expressionism is a painting music or drama style in which the artist or writer tries to express the inner world of emotion rather than the external reality It is one of the important characteristic dramatic techniques Arthur Miller applies in Death of a Salesman Expressionism is a modernist movement in drama and theatre that developed in the early decades of the th century and later in the United States It is a style of playwriting and stage presentation that emphasizes the psychological subject matter of a play The features of expressionistic plays are Distortion of reality There are quick shifts of position The action of the plot will be present past or future The setting may be particularly realistic Several idolatresses may be realistic In the play Death of a Salesman we get all the features of expressionism Thus expressionism is one of Arthur Miller's vital techniques Unrealistic setting As to an unrealistic setting we must look at the play's supernatural elements Arthur Miller uses an unrealistic setting based on supernaturalism Willy talks to his dead brother Ben But Ben died long ago And he would live in Africa The dramatist has shown hallucinations of Willy and his elder brother It is an unrealistic setting of the drama that indicates the baffling psychological issues of the protagonist Symbolism The symbol is one of Arthur Miller's dramatic techniques In the play Miller uses symbols such as the American Dream Willy Loman is the hero of the drama He has the dream to persuade that the American Dream is the emblem of success prestige and power Almost all the characters in the play have symbolic significance Linda symbolizes tame and peaceful housewives Willy's sons are the token of failure We have also seen that Ben Charley and Bernard are successful men in the drama However according to Willy Loman Dave Singleman is the paradigm of success Dramatic irony Dramatic irony is a must for a tragedian and Arthur Miller is no exception to this trend Dramatic irony means using such incidents that produce consequences and the audience knows about the results of those incidents but they are unknown to the character The most acute dramatic irony of the play is when Willy comes to his boss for a fixed salary From the above discussion Arthur Miller's dramatic and artistic techniques make him one of the leading playwrights of English literature In the play Arthur Miller blends realism naturalism and expressionism He combines the objective reality of social aspects with the subjective reality of Willy s predicament