Cultural Milieu, Situation and Attitude Represented in Modern American Drama
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 12
Abstract
As a reflector of the American scene, Death of a Salesman is not a unique case. A close look at American drama after Eugene O‟Neill reveals that the plots and the dramatis personae of representative plays show a similar relationship to the milieu. As Miller deals with the „little man‟ in American society, so Tennessee Williams explores the mind of the Southerner caught between an idyllic past and an undesirable present. Thornton Wilder dramatizes the ideals of small-town American and Edward Albee satirizes the middleclass suburbanite in the affluent sixties. Both plot-situations and character-types are recognizable counterparts of problems and people on the American scene. There is a tendency in dramatic criticism to consider these cultural features of the drama as so much window-dressing, a technique for soothing the audience with familiarity while the real business of character portrayal goes on. This approach takes the territory for granted and focuses on an analysis of the hero as psychological specimen. It ignores the fact that drama deals with character-in-a-situation and that this situation is not static, but a developing action. Because the situation reflects the cultural milieu and the personae types in it, the play speaks from the culture to the culture. Thus the way in which the drama represents the milieu is essential to an understanding of the drama as a whole.The purpose of this research article is to examine cultural milieu, situation, and attitude represented in modern American drama.
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Sunil N. Wathore
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