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All My Sons Character Analysis

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Life is full of surprises and people never know what will happen, however; the main question is how will Joe Keller, the main character, respond to life’s hardships. In the play, “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller there are several accounts where the father Joe Keller lied to his family for committing a horrid crime. Joe’s sons had no idea of his father’s crime and that is why at the end the book shifts to a negative, sad, disheartening tone. This play demonstrates guilt and blame, lies and deceit, morality and ethics, justice, and judgement. It proves the themes by key events such as Joe lying to his sons with the lies and deceit topic, judgement is when Joe has to own up to his crime with his family, and lastly is morality and ethics is …show more content…

Lies and Deceit was among one of the other themes in this play because of one character, Joe Keller. Joe used deceit countlessly in this play by covering his tracks without any suspicion. Joe had developed a characteristic that made him normal in the eyes of the people in his life. His family loved him to death and they had no idea that Joe was the kind of man to do what he did. For him to develop that image of himself is just scary because any criminal can do that to innocent people and they can just be normal in their eyes. Therefore, Joe was a walking criminal that got away and was associating with innocent people (the Keller Family).
Morality and Ethics was another theme of the play portrayed by Arthur Miller. Morality is something essentially defines a person and truly brings out what they believe in, what they think is correct, and other people qualities. Morale is what makes a person act the way they do. For Joe to come off as a person with a great morale, shows how clueless the rest of society is in this play. This connects to real life situations because sometimes society can be clueless and have no idea what is going on in the world. Being clueless to what is going on in the world is the worst because there can be people that you know and love turn out to be criminals. However, walking criminals are people who develop a great persona and prove to other people that they are good

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