Manuscript Number : GISRRJ192426

Individual, Family and Society : A Study of Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee and Broken Glass

Authors(1) :-Dr. Manju Srivastava

Beginning in the 17th century, in the American colonies, American drama developed slowly. Written by Americans in the English language, the plays were intended for performance and were modelled on foreign subjects. Coming to the 20th century, beginning with the 1920s and especially the end of the second World War, it took over to social, political, cultural and economic issues deriving from the native experiences. Writing in the realist tradition of Henrik Ibsen, borrowing symbolist and expressionist techniques from Bertolt Brecht and others, Miller's writing shows his concern with the moral problems in our society, especially American society, leading him to probe into the psychological causes of behaviour. Based on the study of The Yankee and Broken Glass, the paper is an attempt to understand the complex social issues, pressures, conditions affecting the individual and the family.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Manju Srivastava
Associate Professor, Department of English, D.A-V College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

American Drama, Depression, Family, Society, Relationship.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 2 | March-April 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 127-131
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ192426
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

Cite This Article :

Dr. Manju Srivastava, "Individual, Family and Society : A Study of Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee and Broken Glass ", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp.127-131, March-April.2019
URL : https://gisrrj.com/GISRRJ192426

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