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

The Degradation of America in altogether My Sons, demise of a Salesman, and The Crucible Arthur milling machine was, as a playwright, very slender of American society. He condemned every aspect and satirized every ideal of young American culture, from democracy to the American dream. He degraded every give away of Western civilization down to a much more grassroots and much more negative idea capitalism became greed, and rule by the people became rule by the mob. Many people of his era power saw him as anti-American, and in many ways, he was. Each of milling machines plays focuses on fundamental aspects of humanity. Miller chose to represent these qualities in direct social intercourse 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 situation. This technique was very successful in Millers three most 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, curiously in relationship to World War II. American soldiers made undischarged sacrifices for their friends and for their country, even giving up their lives to save that of a fellow soldier. They were 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 parade the terrible effects capitalism can have even on the innocent. The American way of life revolves around capitalism, and capitalism is based wholly on money therefore the American way of life is faulted to the point of being unworkable. Works Cited Hayman, Ronald. Arthur Miller. rising 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.