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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...

The term New Criticism which arose from Eliot’s Theory of Impersonality in Art defines the critical theory that has dominated Anglo-American literary criticism for past fifty years. It is a ‘New’ approach because it completely ignored context and the author’s background. The critic doesn’t know anything about the writer and studies the work of art solely based on the merit of language. One is required to look at the text in isolation and reject authorial intent as well as biographical or sociological interpretations. In order to bring the focus back to analysis of the texts, New Critics aimed to exclude the reader’s response, the author’s intention, historical and cultural contexts and moralistic bias from their analysis. The New Critics called authorial intent as ‘intentional fallacy’ and a reader’s subjective response as ‘affective fallacy’ and thus were quick to eliminate these aspects while critically analyzing a text. The school of New Criticism and Russian...

Samuel Beckett, the most eminent Irish playwright wrote ‘’Waiting for Godot’’ in French in 1949 and then translated it into English in 1954. This play has been performed as a drama of the absurd with astonishing success in Europe, America and the rest of the world in the post second world war era. For this reason, Martin Esslin calls it, “One of the successes of the post-war theatre” (Esslin, Martin, 1980) In this play, the two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait expectantly to see a man simply known as Godot, a character who does not make an appearance in the play, despite being the titular character. The play begins with waiting for Godot and ends with waiting for Godot. Marxism refers to the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism. Marxism introduced ideas such as Dialectical Materialism, Alienation, and Economic Determination. Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ has a minimalist setting...