Prompt: analyze a theme connecting the two plays, Death of a Salesman and Sweat. The essay requires a thesis that presents a claim about a significant theme shared by both plays. Body paragraphs...

Introduction -
Play Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller is one of the most well-known play in the history receiving many awards like Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. This play represents perception of American Dream and Disillusionment such that it consumes the happiness of the family. Sweat on the other hand is also a well-acclaimed American play written by Zora Neale Hurston. Both the plays are extremely powerful as the characters evolves and shapes themselves as per the circumstance outside, which inspires the audience and questions their traditional thinking.
Theme shared by both the plays -
The theme that connects both the play is that people have to come to terms with realities of lives. Both the play has one key element that is in focus – women who blindly trusts her husband, treats him with respect but in return only gets mental stress and neglect. Well, indeed the play also centers on the power of dreams and how is it related to happiness as well as can be a source of tension. However, another striking theme that comes out in both the play is how women are treated and perceived to be submissive in relationship with her husband. In fact, women are conditioned in a way from their childhood that makes them believe husbands are the boss of their lives and they need to trust them without understanding husband deserve it or not.
Quote from Play Death of Salesman:-
Linda: Willy, darling, you're the handsomest man in the world—
Willy: Oh, no, Linda.
Linda: To me you are. The handsomest.
Both Linda Lowman in play Death of Salesman and Delia in Sweat had endured domestic abuse, yet continues to accept the pain since they considered their husband as everything in life. In former case, it was more emotional where Willy Lowman had cheated on her, neglected her and never considered as equal. While in later case, Delia had to undergo both physical and emotional abuse as Skylar used to beat her and mentally torture her.
Body
Essentially, I feel both the play teaches us something, which is very significant in life and often overlooked by many that is Feminism. As both these plays are written after the wartime, conditions of the economy and job opportunities also had played an impact on survival. However, these plays speaks about empowerment of women and survival.
Not always, everything we do will turn into success like represented by the characters who play husband in both the plays. Willy Lowman in the play Death of the Salesman wasn’t successful in his professional career and gave exotic gifts to his mistress. Similar stereotypical husband was portrayed by Sykes in Sweat, although being unemployed and being out of work yet he paid for his mistress's rent.
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