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One of Arthur Miller’s most profound works, Al l My Sons, has its roots buried within the tragedy stricken war times back in 1947, a few years after the second world war ended. The Keller's are a family who live a life of tension and unrealistic aspirations after losing a son at war. As the Keller's try to live a normal life they are left struggling when they face dealing with the consequences of their actions, these lead to the central tragedies of the play. In the story, Joe Miller decided to send out faulty air plane parts for the good of his business and family causing the death of  twenty-one pilots  during World War II. The play revolves around the events that take place in the absence of Larry, while he does his time in the jail for a crime committed by his business partner and dear friend, Joe Keller, but a situation moulded so intricately turned the tables and Larry ended up bearing the brunt of the repercussions. As a play, All my sons is driven b...

Psychological criticism adopts the methods of "Reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. Here, we are going to apply the same form of criticism on Samuel Beckett’s play, ‘Waiting for Godot.’  Unanswered questions behind the characters behaviour are answered here. We would be looking further to the psychoanalytical approach, Sigmund Freud being the important proponent here. A major focus on the language and how dreams reflect our mental personality are given in his second essay, “Interpretation of Dreams.” The plot clearly states that Estragon has nightmares and Vladimir never addresses them and remains unhelpful towards it, being the one who is aware about their sufferings. The nightmares contain flashbacks and images of a gruesome and horrific event that has hap...