Ma Mi shows the coldness of the salesman world (or the entire capitalist society) in his "tycoon game". What urges everyone in the play to exhaust all their efforts to pursue is naturally the realization of dreams. However, in order to be able to realize the dream of pursuing wealth, the salespersons in the 1990s described by Ma Mi represent the unscrupulous shopping world for "sales" (not necessarily "success"). Salesmen manipulate language, lie, fabricate, pretend, and ask for nothing. It is the three-character mantra "ABC—Always Be Closing" written by Ma Mi.
Living in a society ruled by law, physical violence will be restricted by law. Therefore, through language, people satisfy everything they can't in reality. Lervene, a salesman who is "excited", brags about his glorious past to satisfy himself and gain the trust and sympathy of others. Moss, whose performance is as low as that, continues to complain with fierce remarks that the upper management of the company is not. The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. The weak and the strong are the only law of capital society. Money is the ultimate goal. Williamson, who is in charge of the company's business, no matter what business ethics is (perhaps none at all), determines the individual by his subordinates' performance. The salesman has always been eager to establish human-to-human emotions and relationships with his customers, but he just wants you to sign the signature on the contract. Under the various layers of relationships that desperately want to pack, Ma Mi exposes the ugly reality of mutual conflict and harm hidden in the friendly interpersonal relationship. The constant swear words in workplace conversations and the clamor and scolding between each other are just part of everyday language. But in the workplace of a salesperson, it is a way of showing one's tough side, and perhaps a way to relieve strong pressure.
Under the pressure of money and performance, the relationship between people is distorted by language. People's helplessness and incompetence in reality are transformed into angry language and blurted out, and the quickness of the tongue shows the strong contrast and sorrow of the incompetence of reality.
The salesperson in "Tycoon Game", everyone has hope for success, and wants to get rich in every way, thinks that rich has dignity, and uses language as a weapon to succeed. In the first act of this play, Levene's conversations with customers and Williamson outside the Chinese restaurant are full of possibilities. He first brags to the client that he has just closed a case, and then he plans for the client's beautiful prospects after buying the real estate. The tone is full of self-affirmation and unlimited confidence in his products; however, we will know from the dialogue between him and Williamson that he is actually a declining salesperson, and there is no way to break through the current predicament. , Seeking to make money. In the dialogue, it is not difficult for us to see their jargon, as well as male language, such as swear words, language violence and opposition. The entire real estate market is a battlefield. Every salesperson is a warrior. They fight with customers and colleagues with a three-inch tongue. Even if you can't win the first place, you have to take advantage of words; therefore, the words related to sexual organs and sexual behavior pop out every two sentences.
"Tycoon Game" talks about human greed and moral decay. For the sake of money, Levene can lie that his daughter is sick; he can be instructed to rob the office; he can also abandon his dignity and call the younger generation boss. All the characters in the play have no friendship, affection, or even the most basic sense of morality. The bright side of our cognitive society is distorted by the reality of society in the play. The only criterion for judging value is money. Compared with Althur Miller's salesman, Mamet's salesman's tragic end seems to be more well deserved. Because Mammet's salesman is just a beast who only understands survival and competition, and has no positive characteristics such as a sense of human morality.
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