All My Sons and Death of a Salesman Under the Layer of Pathos

Pages:9-10
Mohd Akram (English Teacher at Govt Middle School, Pharwahi, Maler Kotla, Punjab)

Arthur Miller is a renowned dramatist of America . he belongs to the expressionistic school of drama which explores through outer symbols and impressions the inner state of mind . he is one of the five well known dramatists of America who believes that a serious playwright must explore social problems of the age and find their responsibility towards society. He a popular playwright whose plays express democratic idealism, poetic expression and “an ancient people’s capacity for understanding the anguish of the soul. He asks everybody to inculcate in himself the qualities of truth courage, responsibility and faith which constitute the core of his personality. His major plays are “ All my sons (1947) , Death of a salesman (1949) , The crucible (1953) , A view from the Bridge (1955) etc. In his plays miller delineates what he calls the “tragic victory “ where the protagonist walks to his doom with his eyes open as in “ All my sons and Death of a salesman or chooses deliberately to die at the hands of others.