It means that once you make a choice, you're responsible, and "guilty" of it.

The House of Un-American Activities committee. I got this from one of his brographies so it must be right.

Arthur Miller was trying mirror McCarthyism to make a point with his book so he had to doctor some facts to make them fit. He also had to tell a story so what he wrote about had to be interesting.

Arthur Miller would say that a typical working man or woman would make the best tragic hero for a modern play and a modern audience.

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a story of Puritan Settlers in Salem which was widely viewed as a lampoon of sorts on senator McCarthy's pursuit of communists. In The Crucible, people are judged by an incompetent who takes as true, the wild accusations of a group of adolescent girls.

realist

Arthur Miller might think that a working woman facing prejudice in a male-dominated business world would make a good modern tragic hero.

They are easy to compare to McCarthyism and Miller was trying to make a point about McCarthyism. The Trials are also different enough that he could not get in trouble for writing about them to write about a senator.

possible

Arthur Miller was married to his first wife, Mary Slattery for 16 years until they divorced in 1956.

Arthur Miller later remarried to american actress, Marilyn Monroe and austrian bookwright, Inge Morath.

There are two things they all have in common:

1) They are all by Arthur Miller

and

2) They are all Dramas

He showed that a lot of people work very hard for very little

He refused to disclose the names of fellow writers that were allegedly involved with the Communist party or that held Communist sympathies.

The McCarthyism of the 1950.

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Sphocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus

A.his plays deal with significant social issues the entire society grapples with.

Arthur Miller uses stage directions to further develop the interactions between his characters by telling the characters when to interact and different sequences.