죠 켈러와 윌리 로만의 자아인식

Self-recognition of Joe Keller and Willy Loman

&nbsp;&nbsp;Arthur Miller is a famous social dramatist who is interested in society and individual. He always emphasizes the organic relationship between individual and society dealing with political and social problems in his plays. The characters in his plays struggle against society to keep their integrity but come to destruction owing to its oppression and their lack of self-recognition. Having such belief in social drama, Miller is often called a social dramatist or a moralist. He always focuses on self-recognition, social awareness and the sense of responsibility based on mutuality.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In All My Sons, Joe has lived relatively unaffected by his guilt for three years. When he recognizes that his crime has directly touched his own family, his central and limited concern, and when his private guilt is reinforced by his recognition of social responsibility to all of mankind&quot;s sons, Joe achieves what Miller feels is a satisfactory recognition and, accepting full personal and social culpability, he shoots himself. <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In Death of a Salesman, Willy is a common man who is obsessed with an illusion for success. He lacks in self-recognition and the moral values. Those characteristics of Willy&quot;s cause trouble and discord among the family members. Through Willy&quot;s suicide, Miller criticizes the values and morals of an industrial and materialistic society. Almost all of Miller‘s major plays present some characters who are destroyed because they lack self-recognition and social awareness. Joe in All My Sons and Willy in Death of a Salesman are the egoistic protagonists who fall victim of the phony success dream and dehumanization. In conclusion Miller clearly stresses the importance of self-recognition in individual who has to live in our society.