How Miller Presents Joe Keller as a Tragic Hero in All My...

How Miller Presents Joe Keller as a Tragic Hero in All My Sons Joe Keller is a man who loves and values his family very much. Like most Americans he has given everything so he can have the big house, the fancy car and the bulging wallet. He has given everything so he can have the American Dream. Unfortunately for Keller, everything isnt as perfect as it seems. All My Sons is a very tragic play. It shows how a man can sacrifice everything including the honour of his name to make his family prosperous. This struggle for wealth and material goods involves Keller doing an awful crime because he wants his family to be wealthy. This is the cause of Kellers downfall. In All My Sons Miller examines the morality of a man who†¦show more content†¦Because hes my son Im his father and hes my son, and if theres something bigger than that Ill put a bullet in my head!. Although this shows Kellers irresponsibility towards society it also shows Kellers devotion to his family. Keller obviously believes that family is the most important thing in the world. This little speech of Kellers is also very ironic because at the end of the play Keller does actually put a bullet in his head when he finds out there is something bigger than family. The audience will see this speech of Kellers as a warning that Keller will probably end up putting a bullet in his head. This will unsettle the audience and that is exactly what Miller intended to do by hinting in Kellers speech what will happen to him in the end. Chris, unlike his father, does not believe that family is the most important thing in the world. He thinks that the society in which you live is just as important as your family. Chris proves to the audience that he feels this way on page 117 when he says, Its wrong to pity a man like that. Father or no father, theres only one way to look at him. He knowingly shipped out parts that would crash an airplane. Here the audience sees how Chris doesnt try to justify what Keller has done just because hes his son. The audience sees that Chris treatsShow MoreRelatedArthur Miller and His Theater of Mirrors. Reflections on the Persuasiveness of Miller’s Multiple Portrays of American Society2367 Words   |  10 Pages Throughout his career as playwright, Arthur Miller portrayed critically some of the so-called ideals of the American society. Within his numerous plays and short stories, his characters reflect over and over the multilayered American dream, its implications and consequences; the author unveils the ignored ties human beings have with their pasts, demonstrating with his characters that we cannot escape from it but learn from our failures and triumphs. And this is one is one of the major points inRead MoreDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pagessources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2011, 2007, 2005, 2002, 1998 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in anyRead MoreProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 PagesState University PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE MANAGERIAL PROCESS Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright  © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited