Degradation of America in All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Cru

The Degradation of America in unaccompanied My Sons, end of a Salesman, and The Crucible Arthur moth miller was, as a playwright, very deprecative of American society. He condemned every aspect and satirized every ideal of mod American culture, from democracy to the American dream. He degraded every secern of Western civilization down to a much more fundamental and much more negative idea capitalism became greed, and rule by the people became rule by the mob. Many people of his era motto him as anti-American, and in many ways, he was. Each of moth millers plays focuses on fundamental aspects of humanity. Miller chose to represent these qualities in direct congenator to American society, and contrasted the sacred ideals of democracy and capitalism with the true nature of mankind. He blamed the faults of democracy onto mankind at an individual basis, and used the American everyman as an example to prove his commit. This technique was very successful in Millers three mos t important works All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible. All three of these plays deal with different aspects of American democracy. In All My Sons, Miller criticizes both domestic and international failures of democracy, oddly in relationship to World War II. American soldiers made bully sacrifices for their friends and for their country, even giving up their lives to save that of a fellow soldier. They were armed combat to protect the American way of life, which according to Miller, was in effect nothing. American soldiers were dying out in Europe and the Pacific so that Americans at home could buy refrigerators and new cars. According to Chris, one of two characters Miller used to represent the American soldier, The A... ...btain happiness through money and fail. Larry and Proctor, on with numerous Puritans and American pilots, are all characters Miller used to abut the terrible effects capitalism can have even on the innocent. The American way of life revolv es around capitalism, and capitalism is based solely on money therefore the American way of life is faulted to the point of being unworkable. Works Cited Hayman, Ronald. Arthur Miller. new-fangled York Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1972. Miller, Arthur. All My Sons. New York The Viking Press, 1957. - - -. Introduction. Arthur Millers Collected Plays. New York The Viking Press, 1957. - - -. Death of a Salesman. New York The Viking Press, 1957. - - -. The Crucible. New York The Viking Press, 1957. Moss, Leonard. Arthur Miller. Boston Twayne Publishers, 1967.