Did anyone else catch this? I feel like the play is filled with Marxist undertones that criticize the consumerist, capitalist society where Willy's labor is alienated and his commodity fetishism and desire for power ultimately leads to his death and the destruction of his family. Ben's character seems to me to represent a yearning for an outlet to express his true self and inner wilderness, but he is unable to do so because of the consumerist culture that surrounds him. His value system ends up corrupting his children so that they cannot live normal, happy lives as well.
>Anti-consumerist=marxist
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Well, Arthur Miller was pretty well known for being anti-capitalist. His play All my Son's is about how there's more to life than the American dream of making money, the play points out the flaws in American society back then. Like the play points out how people equate love for their family with how much money they can make for them, no matter the cost
>>7989898
I'm not saying Miller was a Marxist, but I think it is a critique of capitalism and its functionality, and not just consumer culture
Exactly, Miller was brought under the house of unamerican activities though, so
> Miller = Marxist
It's possible to analyze something without being against it.
>>7989937
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>>7989949
Indeed, but not from a marxist perspective. At least, not from an orthodox one. It might treat alienation, but not in the way Marx inteded it: it doesn't treat the contradiction between labour and its product, but the contradiction between parameters of personal fulfillment in capitalism and the potenciality of its achievement.
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