After the Fall (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, New York City, Marriage, Alienation, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Lawyers, Ethics, Existentialism, Holocaust, Jewish
- Locales: New York, NY
After the Fall demonstrates one man's struggle to survive in a fallen world. The fall from Eden is a recurrent theme in American literature—America, after all, was established as a kind of New World Garden, a bountiful paradise that would yield endless riches. It would bring forth an ideal community in which all individuals could live together in harmony and prosperity. The possibility of a fallen Eden, however, always lurked in the Puritan commitment to the individual's natural propensity for evil. Some of the greatest American authors—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville,...
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