Analysis Of Arthur Miller's Life

Arthur Miller was born Arthur Asher Miller on October 17, 1915 in Manhattan to parents Isidore and Augusta Miller. He was the second son of the Jewish immigrants who owned a clothing company called S. Miller & Sons. The clothing company was such a hit, they could afford an apartment overlooking central park and a chauffeur to drive them around. However, just before Miller’s 14th birthday in October 1929, the stock market, which the Miller family was highly invested in, crashed. They lost everything and ended up moving to a more affordable home in Brooklyn. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1932, he went to work at an auto-parts store where he stored up money for college. All the while he took night

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an interpretation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which religion, justice, individuality and dignity play a vital role. These factors define the characteristics of many of the most significant characters in the play. Some of them being John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, Danforth and many others. The Salem witch trials were a result of the lack of expression of individuality and the fact that no individual could expect justice from the majority culture as a result of the deterioration of human dignity in the Puritan society of Salem.

Few people are willing to stand up to the overwhelming power of authority, especially during a time like the Red scare. Hardly any authors are able to recognize meaningful similarities between the present times and an event that happened many years ago—and write about it effectively. Only one has had the courage and intelligence to do both. Arthur Miller was an American author who wrote plays, essays, and stories and has published works dating from to 1936 through 2004. The Crucible, one of his most famous plays, premiered in New York on January 22, 1953 (InfoTrac). It is a historical-fiction story set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The witch hunt described in this play is similar to the Red Scare, an anti-communist movement led by

How many people have you met in your life that is stronger because of a difficult experience they went through? Most people are because we take these difficult experiences and grow from them and become better people. This is the exact case is expressed in the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The story begins in Salem, Massachusetts 1692 right in the middle of a period of witchcraft hysteria. During this time many people were accused of being witches and wrongly convicted by judges Danforth and Hathorne. The characters in the story are struggling because of a girl named Abigail who gets caught practicing witchcraft and then starts naming and accusing others so that she doesn’t get in trouble; one of these people being a well-respected farmer, John Proctor’s, wife Elizabeth. The title, The Crucible, refers to a test, trial, ordeal, formation by fire, and vessel baked to resist heat, and the entire story is an allegory meaning it has a hidden meaning. John Proctor symbolizes a crucible by embodying the definition of one, as he went through a test and was formed by fire.

Arthur Miller’s Focus (1945) is a revolutionary work that highlights racism, especially anti-Semitism, in America. Written during the last year of the Second World War, Focus is a groundbreaking work in every sense of the word inasmuch as it is the first literary work that deals directly with anti-Semitism in the United States. Statistically speaking, there were two main waves of Jewish immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 1920. According to Susan Haberle, “the first group of Jewish people came from Germany, Austria, and Hungary. These immigrant left to seek a better life” (Haberle 6). The second group was the biggest wave; they came between 1880 and 1920: “these immigrants came from Poland, Romania, Russia, and other eastern

“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way." This was a quote from the prominent American playwright Arthur Miller. This quote summed up Millers approach towards life and how others should live. Arthur Miller, by mirroring the issues of their time in a new light through his plays, sought to better America as he tackled political issues of his time in a way that his vast audiences would understand. Arthur Miller could be considered one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century through his bold messages. Arthur Miller exposed the flaws in the pursuit of the American dream and more specifically how society’s evil nature would lead to the corruption of the average American and lead to an unjust America. This was shown in his plays and most commonly known in his works Death of a Salesman and the Crucible. Being alive from 1915 to 2005 Miller experienced both important high and low points in American history.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer consists of several characters from various social classes. Together, these characters go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and along the journey they all tell different tales. In order to write this book, Chaucer decided to go on his own pilgrimage and to also observe people in his everyday life in order to make the characters and the book itself realistic. Many authors like Chaucer will take real life experiences and incorporate them into their novels. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the characters in order to reveal his inner-most opinions of his past.

Through the use of a variety of textual features and contrasting characterisation, Arthur Miller explores the theme of personal integrity to invite a variety of reader responses. Miller positevly characterises those who have mastered or are developing towards a high moral standard as illustrated by Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor. The author negatively characterises those who abandon integrity in favour of personal interests, such as Abigail Williams. Through the examination of integrity by Miller, the reader is positioned to realize the high cost of maintaining ones personal integrity and invites them to understant that remainging faithful to ones beliefs is extremly challenging and can involve the ultimate sacrifice. As the play is an allegory,

Arthur Miller lived through some of the best and worst times in United States history. Born in the middle of World War 1, the American economy was booming and the standard of living had increased throughout The United States. “Arthur Asher Miller was born on 17 October 1915, in New York City; the second child of Augusta and Isidore Miller” (Abbotson 1). Miller had two siblings, composed of an older brother and a younger sister. Miller’s mother was a teacher at a public school and his father was a manufacture of women’s coats in New York (Nelson 13).

Arthur Miller once said, "Theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life." For years, a playwright's goal was to make the stage a place to cultivate and create life as it is. The public's thirst for raw, bona fide literature was quenched when Arthur Miller wrote plays "so much like life" (Miller) itself. He did not find perfection in perfect, but in the imperfect. Psychology, Art, and History, are not only found within the text, but they are intertwined with every character's objective and subtext. Arthur Miller is the best playwright, not only for molding a character's chase for the American Dream, but he has written a revolutionary view on female characters, and has found the beauty in the tragic hero.

Arthur Miller, in his plays, deals with the injustice of society's moral values and the characters who are vulnerable to its cruelty. A good majority of these plays were very successful and earned numerous awards. According to Brooks Atkinson, a critic for the New York Times, Miller's play Death of a Salesman was successful because the play "is so simple in style and so inevitable in theme that it scarcely seems like a thing that has been written and acted. For Mr. Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hopes and anguish to the theater" (Babusci 1261). This play, in 1949, received the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the

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The education system stresses that in order to be content, students must achieve a high GPA and attend a form of secondary education. Career awareness is also taught as early as elementary school, with a purpose of promoting a “successful” American experience. The leaders of the United States utilize this tactic because research affirms that “people who wonder about their future exhibit an especially healthy form of curiosity, one that augurs greater well-being, or contentment, over time” (Scientific American Mind 1). However, not every member of society possesses this curiosity. Thus, authors such as Arthur Miller depict characters with various contentment levels, and express the backgrounds of these characters in order to convey a realistic, yet conveying story reflecting the American experience.

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