The Life and works of Arthur Miller.
The Arthur Miller is one of the leading American playwrights of the century and a celebrity of equal notoriety. He was rm in October of 1915 in New York City, the son of a ladies-wear who was ruined during the economic collapse of the 4930s. AS a young man during the Great Depression, Miller was shaped by the poverty that surrounded him, which demonstrated to the insecurity of modern existence. After graduation from high ool he worked in a warehouse so that he could earn enough money to attend the University of Michigan, where he begin to write plays.
Miller’s first public success was Focus a novel about anti-Semitism, but it was with All My Sons two years later that Miller emerged as an important playwright. All My Sons is a drama about a manufacturer of faulty war materials that strongly shows the influence of Ibsen. It was with Death of a Salesman in 1949 that Miller secured his reputation as one of the nation’s foremost playwrights. Death of a Salesman mixes the tradition of social realism that informs most of his work with a more experimental structure that includes leaps in time as the Willy Loman, drifts into memories of his sons as teenagers. lkoman stands as an American a-victim of his own delusions of grandeur and obsession with success that haunts him in his failure. Miller won a Tony Award for Death of a Salesman as well as a Pulitzer Prize. The play has been frequently revived in film, television and stage versions that have included such diverse actors as Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman.
‘The American Dream is the largely screen front of which all American writing plays itself out,” Arthur Mili, has said. “Whoever is writing in the United States is using Amencan Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhen tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions o life are hostile to man’s pretensions.” In Miller’s more than thi plays, which have won him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards, he puts in question “death and and injustice ang how we are to account for this little life of ours. Miller has been creating characters that wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, the repercussions of past actions, and the twin poles of guilt and hope. In his writing and in his role in public life, Miller articulates hy profound political and moral convictions. He once said he thought theatre which premiered in 1953, is the Salem witch-hunts of 1692, but it also deals in an allegorical manner with the House Un-American Activities Committee. In a note to the play, Miller writes, “A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical Dealing as it did with highly charged current events, the play received unfavourable reviews and Miller was cold-shouldered by many colleagues. When the political situation shifted, Death of a Salesman went on to become Miller’s most celebrated and most produced play, which he directed at the People’s Art Theatre in Beijing in 1983….
