Arthur Miller Research Paper

Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was an American playwright born on October 17, 1915. He is most known for his plays The Crucible and The Death of a Salesman. He was born in Harlem, Manhattan in the New York division. In his early life his father was a well-respected and wealthy man that owned a women’s clothing company that employed about 400 people. When the Wall Street market crashed in 1929 he and his family were forced to move away to Gravesend, Brooklyn. Miller helped support his family as a teenager by delivering bread in the mornings. After he graduated from high school he had several small jobs to help pay for his college tuition. In college Miller majored in journalism and also worked on his first play No Villain. Later on he changed

This play was closed after four performances and had terrible reviews following it. His next play All My Sons was a huge success though and established his reputation as a playwright. In 1948 he began working on The Death of a Salesman, having finished it within six weeks from starting it. The play aired on Broadway on February 10, 1949 and is regarded as one of the classics of world theater. This was the first play to win three major awards. In 1960 he began work on The Misfits starring his wife Marilyn Monroe, although this was an extreme low point in both of their lives and it eventually lead to their divorce after their five years of marriage. In 1952 Miller traveled to Salem, Massachusetts to research the Witch Trials that occurred in 1692. This is when he began work on his most produced work, The Crucible. The Crucible was considered only partly successful at the time this is what he is most known for today. In his later life Miller traveled the world and became a public figure speaking about the current troubles of the time such as communism and speaking out against it. He also traveled around producing and directing many of his own plays around the world. Many of his works were banned in Soviet Russia due to their opposing