Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Millerwas a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucibleand A View from the Bridge. He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman is often numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 October 1915
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail
If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.