All my Sons is a play written by Arthur Miller The action of the play is set in August 1947, in the mid-west of the U.S.A. The events depicted occur between Sunday morning and a little after two o'clock the following morning.

... All my Sons is a play written by Arthur Miller The action of the play is set in August 1947, in the mid-west of the U.S.A. The events depicted occur between Sunday morning and a little after two o'clock the following morning. Chris, a militant idealist, or even Larry, another son not appearing on the stage, becomes apparent with the very background of the war, by itself. It is true that in the play Arthur Miller portrays Joe and Chris as victims of the war. However, if we look at it in its simplest form, as a social play reflecting the American society of the 1940s in relation to World War II, that will lead us to close our eyes to an appropriate evaluation of this play. All my Sons has included such themes as father-son conflict, guilt of fathers, one conflict between the social and the personal, a man's personal

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