The Great Depression and its impact on Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
- one of the greatest American playwrights, 20th century
- worked after high school to attend Michigan's University
- started his career with "The Man Who Had All The Luck"
- won the Tony Award
- won the Pulitzer Prize
- 1956, married Marylin Monroe
- 1962, married Inge Morath
- his plays are still famous
Arthur Miller
His most famous plays
His most famous plays
- The Man Who Had All The Luck
- Death of a Salesman
- became an iconic play
- Pulitzer Prize
What was the Great Depression?
- worst worldwide economic depression
- lasted from 1929 to 1939
- kickoff => "Black Thursday" on October 24, 1929.
- stock market crashed
- 1933 => Depression reached its lowest point
The Great Depression
Life during The Depression
Life during the Depression
- food and jobs were hard to get
- many farmers losed their farms
- homeless people became common
- unemployement rose:
- 5 million in 1930
- almost 13million by the end of 1932
- Herbert Hoover tried to help but didn't create jobs.
What ended it?
- Franklin D. Rooselvet was chosen as president (1932)
- promised to create federal government programs to end The Great Depression
- he signed the "New Deal" within 100days into law
- created 42 new agencies => designed to create job, allow unionization and provide unemployment insurance.
- spring 1933: economic continued to improve
- 1939: Depression comes to an end and World War II beginned.
What ended it?
Franklin D. Rooselvet
Franklin D. Rooselvet
- closed all the remaining banks
- decided to help the workers with the government money
- stabilised industrial and agricultural production
- created jobs
- created FDIC
- federal desposite insurance corpooration
- to protect depositors
- created SEC
- securities and exchange commision
- to regulate the stock market
The Great Depression and its impact on Arthur Miller's family
Its Impact
- his father went into bankruptcy
- his family lost all of what they owned
- he has worked to attend Michigan's University
- he lived in Depression for 6 years (until World War II)
The Great Depression's impact on Arthur Miller plays
Impact on his plays
- it has affected his way of thinking
- it gave him "a sence of the invisible world" and a compassionate understanding of life
- brings out important themes of Depression
- he writes the reality of facts (generally)
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