{"product_id":"guilt-and-responsibility-in-arthur-millers-plays-von-andreas-keilbach","title":"Guilt and Responsibility in Arthur Miller's Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: 20th Century American Drama: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to examine how the characters in Arthur \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiller¿s plays are confronted with guilt and responsibility and how they deal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith it. Furthermore, I want to demonstrate how personal, individual guilt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand responsibility not only become a matter for the individual but also \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave an important impact on the community and the society. According to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiller, there is a really strong mutual relationship between the individual \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand society. He states: ¿Society is inside man and man is inside society, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe water is in the fish, the fish is in the water.¿ Miller¿s main protagonists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealways try to defend themselves against an accusation, to deny their \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsibility and guilt, and to believe in their innocence. Bigsby mentions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat all of the characters concerning innocence and guilt have in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommon: ¿¿ [They] spend much of their time rebutting charges whose \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejustice they acknowledge even as they are rejected. They are people who \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etry to escape the consequences of their actions, who try to declare their \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einnocence even when that involves implying the guilt of others.¿ This truly \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapplies for the plays and characters I will observe in the following. I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecided to focus on two plays published in the 1940s and 1950s: All My \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSons (1947) and The Crucible (1953). Their main protagonists experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econfrontation with themselves which finally leads to death. Most emphasis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be laid on All My Sons as there we have a number of characters \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edealing with guilt and responsibility, namely Chris, Larry, Kate, and Joe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeller. In addition, I will discuss the character of Proctor in The Crucible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dominant question in these characters becomes this one: ¿How \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecan a human being work out the interconnections among the everwidening \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecircles of responsibility: self, family, society, the universe? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Miller, ¿to violate the codes of any circle is to sin.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640217199\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640217199","offer_id":39424494862429,"sku":"9783640217199","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/81266668-9073-49d0-94df-c4e201ce4b30.jpg?v=1777612236","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/guilt-and-responsibility-in-arthur-millers-plays-von-andreas-keilbach","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}