Willy Loman’s Desperate Affair Challenges the Iranian Censorship: Asghar Farhadi’s <em> The Salesman</em>

This study examines resistance in cross-cultural adaptations, focusing on Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman (2016), an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949). This research investigates how Farhadi's rewriting of Miller's play within post-revolutionary Iran engages in a dialogue with the Islamic Republic and its dominant discourses. It explores how this adaptation addresses Iran's social, cultural, and ideological complexities by reframing Miller's narrative of 1950s societal change and the failure of the American Dream within the context of post-revolutionary Iran. This analysis uses Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to reveal how The Salesman uses Miller's unique concept of a time framework to critique contemporary Iranian realities, offering a nuanced perspective on issues of gender, class, and societal disillusionment within a specific cultural and political landscape.