INTRODUCTION This paper work presents the American society and the way it is reflected through theater. The twenty century was a time of changes in America, changes which were reflected in different areas of American life. People were affected by the two World Wars and they were scared by the idea that a new war could start. This changes not only affected the social and economic life, it affected people and their ideas about life and wealth. Important changes happened within industry, scholar system, media, literature and theater. Next, I'm going to focus on the theater and I'll try to to find social aspects within twenty century's plays. For this, I'm going to focus on two great American playwrights: Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
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He's been working all of his life for the same company and now he feels he's not liked there anymore. People became more and more focused on technology while human work was no longer appreciated. Society was controlled by money and power and there was no place for people as Willie Loman. Linda, his wife, knows that his dreams are not reachable but tries to understand him. She knows he cannot be able to accept a failure. We see in Linda the type of loving and devoted wife, a wife who has a lot of love and protection to offer. For Linda, her husband is her hero and she does everything to keep his hope alive and to encourage him in everything he decides. They have hard times in their life, the atmosphere inside the Loman’s family is tensed during the entire play, on one side because of the money, on the other side because of the bad relation they have with their two sons: Biff and Happy especially with the elder one Biff. Happy is more adapted to this new change that stroke America, he is young and love to enjoy life to the full. Biff on the other side is a very strong man, not so attached to his family. He knows he is limited and doesn't wants to dream too far, even his father has great plans with him: to start a business and to become a rich, successful man. Biff loves the countryside, loves labor and he wants to continue doing what he wants, no matter who is
He's been working all of his life for the same company and now he feels he's not liked there anymore. People became more and more focused on technology while human work was no longer appreciated. Society was controlled by money and power and there was no place for people as Willie Loman. Linda, his wife, knows that his dreams are not reachable but tries to understand him. She knows he cannot be able to accept a failure. We see in Linda the type of loving and devoted wife, a wife who has a lot of love and protection to offer. For Linda, her husband is her hero and she does everything to keep his hope alive and to encourage him in everything he decides. They have hard times in their life, the atmosphere inside the Loman’s family is tensed during the entire play, on one side because of the money, on the other side because of the bad relation they have with their two sons: Biff and Happy especially with the elder one Biff. Happy is more adapted to this new change that stroke America, he is young and love to enjoy life to the full. Biff on the other side is a very strong man, not so attached to his family. He knows he is limited and doesn't wants to dream too far, even his father has great plans with him: to start a business and to become a rich, successful man. Biff loves the countryside, loves labor and he wants to continue doing what he wants, no matter who is