Arthur Miller's Play 'All My Sons'.
About the Author:
Arthur Miller was a very famous essayist and playwright of America. He gives such a memorable stage play in American literature. His famous plays are, "Death of Salesman", "The Crucible",and "A View From the Bridge". But he gain his fame from the very famous play,"All My Sons". During the World War 2 his writing was very appreciate by people and also give him success. The well known play helped him to gain international credit.
All My Sons:
This is one act play based on the modern Shakespearean tragedy. with the beginning of the play we saw that there were talking about nuclear family, it represents the 20th century in America. The main characters are Joe and Kate Keller husband -wife lived with their two children named Christ and Larry. Mother was more attracted towards the Larry. Joe has a Manufacturing plant and partnership with his friend Steve Deever. Ann was a daughter of Steve and girlfriend of Larry Keller. Keller and Deever was in a business of supplying of air parts, it is a very profitable business for them.
After some time Deever supply a damage air parts to plans and because of that twenty one plans were crashed and all pilots are died. In that case both are arrested by police. Where police asked for the defective parts of plans Keller play wisely and said the, I was not there were it supplied, and he also blamed to Deever for that matter and also he was responsible for that issue and Keller was innocent.
Larry has some kind of faith into his father but after hearing this news about his father he getting depressed and wrote a latter to Ann. He wrote that do not wait for him, he was going on the mission and after that he clash his own plan. His dead body was not found and he was reported as missing.
After some years past but Larry was not found and during this time Ann and Christ come closer and also wants to marry, but his mother has some superstition that Larry will be back.
George Ann's brother going to meet his father in jail, at there he know that his father was innocent and Keller was responsible for it. Then George meet to Christ and tell him about the truth, Kate has accepted the truth that it all happened because of his father and then Joe also guilt for doing that. Ann has shown the latter of Larry which is given by him before he was going on the mission, it is not only the note but it is a suicide note.
After hearing that Joe feel guilt for the unconsciously murdered of his own son and then think about the all pilots that they were also liked their sons. He decided to surrender and for that he went to his room to take his cote, but the sound of gunshot comes from his room and he was died.
In this one act play we see the various themes, Money minded people and self centered. Here Arthur Miller represents the 20th century of America and the mindset of American people. How people have such kind of lust for the money, and the make their money by any cost and anyway. 'All My Sons' is the best example of reflecting the American society and its culture very well.
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