![]() The ugly reality after the fall of belief in a communist good proves again, for Miller, that the individual is always implicated in the state: there is no such thing as a private act. ![]() ![]() The protagonist of After the Fall, a lawyer, Quentin, examines his failed relationships with women and the ghosts of his past amid larger political and social failures like the aftermath of the Holocaust and the McCarthy Communist witch hunt. In Millers plays, typically, an individual consciousness pits itself against a norm or group-think or shared attitude to his ultimate benefit, a recognition of his inadequacy and the acquisition of humility. Not to suggest that the play, After the Fall, works on the audience like a dose of corrective salts. His high moral standards offer a tonic in these times, when morality seems no longer a criterion for judging behavior. ![]() He is always important, tackling big issues that echo in the mind long after the performance. ![]()
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