All My Sons
-Arthur Miller
All
My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. It is his second play came
after his first play The Man Who Had All the Luck. All My Sons based
upon a true story which was capture by Miller here very beautifully.
The reflection of the great Grecian tragedies:
All
My Sons- the play based on the Grecian tragedies of the likes of
Aeschulus, Sophocles and Euripides. In these play main character or the
protagonist committed crime and due to that offence they must learn his
fault and suffer as a result, and perhaps even die. In All My Sons the
elements of Grecian tragedies are presented. Joe Keller first committed a
crime and later on he suffering from a previous offence, and punishment
for that offence. Likewise it explores the father-son relationship,
also a common theme in Grecian tragedies. Ann Deever could also be seen
to parallel a messenger as her letter is proof of Larry’s death.
Moreover
this play is also considered as the influenced from the play of Ibsen’s
The Wild Duck, where Miler took the idea of two partners in a business
where one is forced to take moral and legal responsibility for other.
This is mirrored in All My Sons. He also borrowed the idea of a
character’s idealism being the source of a problem. In a way we cannot
blame the protagonist because whatever he done it is out of
circumstances. He did whatever due to the responsibilities of his
family. He wants to make him family well-settle. But in between his
wrong work effect on other family and because of that they suffer a lot.
This
play also takes into consideration as a failed idealism of American
Dream. Arthur Miller later uses the everyman in a criticism of the
American Dream in Death of a Salesman, which is in many ways similar to
All My Sons.
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