Author(s): T. Poornima

Abstract: Arthur Miller was a realist. His plays deal with real characters and events. His characters use an idiom of the common man. Their problems relate to every common man of this world. This joys are our own their miseries like those of ours. Miller’s realism is based on the observations of life. He studied not merely the environment but the inside of his characters too. His plays are not escape from romanticism either. Miller believes that romanticism was a part and parcel of majority of people. So he favours a synthesis of determinism and a paradox of will. His plays are concerned with the identity of self. Some of them touch upon the generativity also.

Keywords: realism, expressionism, techniques, forms and styles.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.3.6.41