In his writing and in his role in public life, Miller articulates his profound political and moral convictions. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to man's pretensions.' In Miller's more than thirty plays, which have won him a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards, he puts in question 'death and betrayal and injustice and how we are to account for this little life of ours.'įor nearly six decades, Miller has been creating characters that wrestle with power conflicts, personal and social responsibility, the repercussions of past actions, and the twin poles of guilt and hope.

'Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. 'The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,' Arthur Miller has said.