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The Representation of Masculinity in Arthur Miller's Drama: A Critical Study

Author(s) Dr. Ashok B. Yawale
Country India
Abstract Arthur Miller's drama repeatedly examines men who understand identity through work, authority, sexual control, public reputation, and the obligation to provide for a family. This paper analyses the representation of masculinity in Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. It argues that Miller neither celebrates conventional masculine power nor simply condemns individual men. Instead, he shows masculinity as a socially produced performance that can offer dignity and responsibility while also encouraging emotional repression, rivalry, self-deception, and violence. Willy Loman equates manhood with popularity and commercial success; Joe Keller transforms paternal duty into a justification for moral compromise; John Proctor struggles to recover ethical integrity from damaged public and private identities; and Eddie Carbone turns protective authority into possessiveness when he cannot acknowledge his desire. Across these plays, the male protagonist fears humiliation more intensely than material loss. Miller's tragic method exposes the cost of that fear within families, where wives and children absorb the consequences of masculine secrecy. Yet the plays also imagine alternative forms of manhood through truthful speech, acceptance of limitation, care without ownership, and responsibility extending beyond the household. Masculinity in Miller is therefore unstable and contested rather than natural or uniform. His drama reveals how the pursuit of patriarchal authority can destroy the recognition and belonging it promises.
Keywords Arthur Miller, masculinity, gender, patriarchy, tragedy, identity, American drama
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2019
Published On 2019-10-26
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