For this presentation, Arthur Miller adapted his 1968 Broadway play, which deals with his familiar themes of guilt and responsibility. One in this series of dramatic specials presented by Hallmark. The pathetic is achieved, when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensibility, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force.HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: THE PRICE (TV) Summary Apparently a paradox tragedy implies more optimism in its author than does comedy, and its final result ought to be the reinforcement of the onlooker¶s brightest opinions of the social animal. An otherwise ordinary and common protagonist may rise to the stature of a tragic hero because of his extraordinarily intense zeal and fervour and the sincerity of commitment to his goal²his eagerness to give up anything required in this battle of achieving his proper place in this world.
And this is precisely the morality of tragedy and its lesson. Tragedy is ³the consequence of a man¶s total compulsion to evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt, posits a wrong or an evil in his environment´. Man constantly fights back the hostile cosmos, tries to get the better of the strangling, choking environment, and from this springs the terror and fear associated with classical tragedy. Miller feels that tragedy is the consequence of man¶s total compulsion to evaluate himself. It is aroused in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life to secure his personal dignity.
The tragic feeling does not anchor on the social status of the protagonist. Miller has, very emphatically and lucidly conveyed his conviction that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy as kings were. Despite this, Miller has been able to maintain his faith in values like courage, trust, responsibility, and faith. Miller is the fountainhead of heat and energy, enthusiasm and bubbles, creativity and controversy in the field of dramatic literature. Francis Nelson says: ☺s time goes by, his plays continue to endure, many of them in fact gaining in strength and impact´. As time rushes on its winged chariot, the plays of Arthur Miller seem to ooze out more and more relevance. Marching ahead with greater determination, steadier steps and increasing boldness, Miller has continued to maintain his pace in the glorious high road of American drama. During the last two decades a whole host of playwrights have had to face the oblivion of anonymity while Miller¶s plays continue to attract, arouse amuse and provoke the readers and the audience alike. He is bracketed with Eugene O¶Neill and Tennessee Williams, and is one of the five major American dramatis of international repute, namely Eugene O¶Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. Born in 1915, Miller is one of the top most American playwrights. :-As the criticism goes, Arthur Miller is the most prized of American dramatists.
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