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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

  • All My Sons
  • Tony Award

  • A View From the Bridge

  • The Crucible

  • 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)

The Action Plan

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