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 and order to
maintain his business and property.
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