Arthur Miller And The Common Man's Language

Autor:	Leonard Moss
Rok vydání:	1964
Předmět:	Literature and Literary Theory biology media_common.quotation_subject Miller Media studies Character (symbol) biology.organism_classification Politics Law Liberian dollar Sociology Content (Freudian dream analysis) Seriousness Social relevance media_common
Zdroj:	Modern Drama. 7:52-59
ISSN:	1712-5286 0026-7694
DOI:	10.3138/md.7.1.52
Popis:	THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, Arthur Miller has shown a marked tendency to argue general propositions in colloquial terms. "Listen!" a character shouts in "That They May Win" (1944), a one-act play about returning veterans: "We the people gotta go into politics. Politics is just another way of saying how much rent you'll pay; and how much bread, chopped meat and milk your food dollar will buy, and what you'll have to pay for junior's new shoes! You have to go to those Senators and Congressmen you elected and say, 'Listen here, Mister! We're your boss, and you have to work for us!'" Later, of course, Miller became more adept at shaping an outlook with the mannerisms as well as the rational content of speech, but all his writing reveals his penchant for voicing ethical abstractions, usually of wide social relevance. This habit evidences high seriousness; unfortunately, it has also caused stylistic problems.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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