Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Technology Education

On the Playwriting of Arthur Miller

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Fan YuXia
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Fan YuXia
Available Online April 2015.
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10.2991/icsste-15.2015.145How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Tragedy, Social Criticism, American family tragedy
Abstract

Arthur Miller(1951-2005),very famous American playwright, is one of the three giants together with Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. Miller has strong sense of social responsibility, considering the stage of drama to be the best way for a writer o present the society and to solve the social problems. His works have received focus on the discussion of the tragedy and American Dream. Based on two of his representative plays, Death of a Salesman and All My Sons ,this article discusses Miller’s playwriting, and the ethical literary criticism will be employed to discuss Miller’s moral values, trying to reveal the relationship among the individuals ,families and the society, and educating the public that the loss o morality will ce3rtainly lead to the confusion of the society.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Technology Education
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
April 2015
ISBN
10.2991/icsste-15.2015.145
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icsste-15.2015.145How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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