Abstract
abstract Arthur Miller is a moralist, but his moral vision is not as simple as it sometimes is taken to be. Miller does not hold his characters against an objective moral standard; rather, his goal is to encourage his readers to examine the social mores that underlie their own moral judgments and self-narratives. In this way, Miller's project is much like Nietzsche's, as is his vision of tragedy, which is based on the experience of crises in a person's self-narrative or sense of dignity. Like Sean O'Casey and absurdist dramatists, Miller is working within a Nietzschean metaphysics of the tension between our oversimplified Apollonian narratives and the Dionysian complexity of life. Miller's critique of the ways the inadequacies of our cultural myths misguide our lives and our societies continues today in the works of commentators who seek to understand the tribalism and tensions in contemporary American society.
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