Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Cogito MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL, cilt.18, sa.1, ss.153-164, 2026 (Hakemli Dergi)
Abstract: Possible worlds are manifested at various propositional attitudes of the dramatic agents who speak through certain states of affairs. The verbal indicators pertaining to the varying constructed hypothetical worlds of the characters can be examined in any dramatic work of art. This paper deals with conflicting sub-worlds of the members of the Loman Family in Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman. The play is considered to be a challenge between fantasy world and real world, for it presents the characters’ ambition to achieve the socalled American Dream in reality and the fantasy world that initially captures them and eventually disappoints their expectations. This paper, therefore, focuses, firstly, on Willy Loman who seeks to be a ‘well-liked’, successful salesman and his sub-worlds set upon his ideals, secondly Linda Loman, who finds herself living in and supporting the fantasy world that her husband, Willy, creates; thirdly, Happy Loman, who obeys the rules of the fantasy world his father creates although he knows things are different in reality, and lastly Biff Loman, the only member of the Loman Family who rejects living in that fantasy world and awakens the other family members with the expense of his father’s death. Keywords: Death of a Salesman, Possible Worlds, Dramatic Logic, Arthur Miller, Well-Liked