All My Sons

All My Sons

All My Sons Arthur Miller

This play is criticism of the American Dream.which lies at the heart of All My Sons, was one reason why Arthur Miller was called to appear before the House UN -American Activities Committee during the 1950s, when America was gripped by anti-communist hysteria. Miller sent a copy of the play to Elia Kazan who directed the original stage version of All My Sons. Kazan was a former member of the Communist Party who shared Miller's left-wing views. 

 

Arthur Miller is consider as an intellectual dramatist. Critics of his time believed that Miller was a strong dramatist who could easily reflected the ideas and views of the American Society in his plays.

ALL MY SONS is one of the most popular plays of Arthur Miller. It reflects the moral, social, and political ideas of the society. It also reveals Miller’s view on human nature in a particular social context.

The news story described how in 1941–43 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use.The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Sen. Harry Truman's congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. 

 

• Henrik Ibsen's influence on Miller is evidenced from the Ibsen play The Wild Duck, where Miller took the idea of two partners in a business where one is forced to take moral and legal responsibility for the other. This is mirrored in All My Sons.