“No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life” (Martin Lawrence). Although it may seem otherwise to people of lower-class this very much rings true, even in the life of the respectable and admirable writer, “Arthur Miller. Through all the social, professional and financial suffering, he stood on his beliefs. Arthur Miller was and is an intelligent,persisent man whose open- minded thinking and beliefs was years ahead of his generation.
Arthur Asher Miller on October 17,1915 was born in New York City to Isidore Miller and Augusta Barnett. He was the middle child in a Jewish family that included an older brother who excelled in both academics and sports and an appealing younger sister whom everyone adored, who later became a successful stage actress under the alias Joan Copeland. At a young age their mother, Augusta Miller stressed to her children
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Most of Miller's works had strong political or social messages such as “The Crucible” which was relatively unique within Miller's oeuvre, but it was also one of his most socially conscious and politically relevant, allegorizing the "Red Scare" McCarthyism that was engulfing the nation at the time(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/arthur-miller-mccarthyism/484/). Set in 1692, it told the story of the hysterical culture of fear and suspicion that surrounded the Salem witch trials, drawing parallels with the government stance on Communism and other activities lightly defined as "Un-American.” As a result of this play, which was released several years after his critically acclaimed "Death of a Salesman," the government refused to renew his passport and called him before a special committee meeting and there pleaded, to coerce him into spying on their behalf and rat out others in part, but, remaining true to his character, Miller refused to