Arthur Miller

Basically, I watched this Waybuloo thing but all they do is shout jibber jabber and I had no idea what was going on. I was much more comfortable doing the gangsta blog, you know, growing up in da hood and all. Anyway, I'm just going to write it normally. Soz.

Arthur Miller was a playwright, writing famous theatre dramas such as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View From the Bridge. He began writing plays while at university and has won many awards for his work. He was convicted for not identifying writers who were believed to have communist views by Congress, but the decision was overturned a year later. He wrote 'The Devil in Massachusetts, a book about witch trials drawing parallels to convictions of communistic views in the US and 'McCarthyism', showing his works had a focus on real life problems and ideas.

One such idea he addressed was the idea of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman, with him even saying "The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.! This shows how important he believed the American Dream to be to Americans, audiences and playwrights alike.