The Play All My Sons

Hello readers,

Here i am sharing my views regarding the text which i have studied in BA English. 

 The Play ‘All My Sons’  written by Arthur Miller. It is a tragic play. Joe Keller is the protagonist of this play. As the story is interwoven  to this character, Joe Keller’s problem as he can be called the representation of the American Society. It is set during the second world war. His story deals with confusion between family and nation or country.

       

              All Miller’s plays are concerns with the large social issues. The theme of the All my Sons is the importance of a Man’s social responsibility. A man generally think of his own interest and of family’s interest, he does so without paying attention to the efforts of his action on other people. Every man seeks his own material interests and make great efforts to promote the material ad money interest of his family at the cost of the other people. In this play manufacturer Joe Keller is such a man  who regards his family as his chief interest in life. He built up business for his own prosperity and family. But time comes to chose between family and  nation he chose with disastrous results that he decides to send the cylinder heads to air force which are defective. These defective cylinder heads prove risky to the air pilots, but he didn’t realized the enormity of risk  and that cylinders. AS many as 21 air pilots were killed before  the defect in aircraft was discovered. Joe Keller passed whole blame to Steve Deever who is sentenced to imprisonment and Joe  by the means of trick save his own skin but his wife and neighbors knew that he was guilty for what he had done. Because of his greed and selfishness , he being responsible for the death of 21 pilots of the American Air Force at the time of world war when every single pilot’s life was precious.

           

           Main point is that how the Joe Keller avoid his social responsibilities in order to maintain his business and property.

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