Arthur Miller and His Theater of Mirrors. Reflections on...

Throughout his career as playwright, Arthur Miller portrayed critically some of the so-called ideals of the American society. Within his numerous plays and short stories, his characters reflect over and over the multilayered American dream, its implications and consequences; the author unveils the ignored ties human beings have with their pasts, demonstrating with his characters that we cannot escape from it but learn from our failures and triumphs. And this is one is one of the major points in Miller’s work, as he represents the non-learning of American society in every single of his plays. It seems that Miller sacrifices his characters to build a metaphor of how American men and women keep on chasing one of the biggest illusions a society did and still does pursue. Some of them got the belief stuck in their souls and minds so they do not chase it anymore but are trapped on it. Some others are struggling to make sense of their world while being bombarded by their own families with the confusing truth that they are a failure for pursuing individual freedom instead of being part of the big machine’s mechanism. In this essay, I comment and analyze in a brief manner the plays and short stories read and discussed in the American Society Through Drama/Literature course identifying some of the key elements that Miller criticized with his work in order to conclude at what extent the mirror-creations of Miller are persuasive in his attempt to picture and scrutinize the AmericanShow MoreRelatedManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pagesimplement productive cost reduction How to recognize when regular audits of quality compliance will not guarantee customer loyalty Businesses are growing more intricate and at warp speed. For example, consider the effects of venture capital financing, multiple marketing channel distribution, and entirely new patterns of employee recruiting, development, and training. In addition, product and services launches increasingly require more effective development initiatives. Rapidly increasing numbers of new