critics Flashcards
Miller
“the past is the burden of the man”
Miller
Joe lacks a “viable connection with society” which is why he failed to accept responsibility for his actions.
Timothy Devinney
“Joe was possessed by a latent evil
“He admits his guilt and pays the penalty at his own hand”
Steven Centola, 1997
Miller adopts Ibsen’s technique of gradually “bringing the past into the present”.
Christopher Bigsby,
Kate infantilizes them.
Christopher Bigsby,
Keller survives by insulating himself from knowledge of the consequences of his actions, by denying involvement in the world.
Christopher Bigsby,
Joe and his wife live in fear of bad news, about their son and about the crime they have conspired to deny.
Christopher Bigsby,
To Joe, appearance… matters more than reality.
Christopher Bigsby,
Keller survives by insulating himself from knowledge of the consequences of his actions, by denying involvement in the world.
Joe and his wife live in fear of bad news, about their son and about the crime they have conspired to deny.
To Joe, appearance… matters more than reality.
Kate Keller carries the authority in the house and defines its reality.
Kate infantilizes them.
Christopher Bigsby,
Kate Keller carries the authority in the house and defines its reality.
Kate infantilizes them.
Jeffrey Mason
Keller believes that because he acted for the benefit of his family, he can justify betraying his duty to his country’s war effort and causing the deaths of young men he never knew.
Miller
Joe Keller’s trouble, in a word, is not that he cannot tell right from wrong but that his cast of mind cannot admit that he, personally has any viable connection with his world, his universe, or his society.
Miller
The play was an unveiling of what I believed everybody knew but nobody publicly said.
Weales
“a good husband and a good father, but he fails to be the good man, the good citizen that his son Chris demands”
Miller (ab what audience should feel at first clue of crime)
genuine horror
