ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller

• ALL MY SONS

I had studied the play six years ago, so i may not able to recall it completely. But then even let me try...

This play is criticism of the American Dream.

• All my sons is a play by Arthur Miller, presenting grey shade of world war.Corruption in business and as a result plane crash and death of so many soldiers are beautifully connected in the play. It beautifully captures that how people were money minded or for them war is medium to make money. As soon as there is profit behind the war, the war will never stop. this idea is strikingly captured by book. This is what i like most about literature is that it always stood on the side of humanity.Politicians, businessman or other power structures may favor war, profit but literary texts always protest that this is wrong. And luckily, though after a long time writers voice is realized as right.

1. All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller's then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio newspaper. 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. Ryan, and Major William Bruckmann were relieved and later convicted of neglect of duty.^[
2. 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. He also borrowed the idea of a character’s idealism being the source of a problem (Wikipedia)

Work Cited:-

Wikipedia contributors. "All My Sons." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 18 Jan. 2016. Web. 6 Feb. 2016