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This study examines the psychological trauma and healing in Arthur Miller’s autobiographical writing After the Fall by comparing it with his private life and 20th century’s tragic histories. This play overtly shows Miller’s complicated traumas and his male-oriented identity or misogyny which are similarly represented in his major plays. As a Jewish playwright he experienced or witnessed the Depression, the Holocaust, McCarthyism. Marrige to Marilyn Monroe and her death was highly publicized. This play reveals Miller’s two kinds of psychological traumas through the protagonist Quentin. One is the crisis of masculine identity caused by his selfish cold mother and dogmatic or self-destructive wives. The other is a sense of guilt and damage which came from private tragedy and historic catastrophes. Quentin perceives his own cruelty when he wants to kill his mother and second wife. He also feels relieved after his best friend’s political suicide. Remembering these traumas of guilt and damage destroys his sense of self-esteem as well as his ability to control emotions and human relationships. Quentin recognizes his complicity in all the evils of the world and he accepts that no one can be innocent again after the Fall from the Eden.
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Autobiographical Writing, Psychological Trauma and Healing, Masculine Identity, Misogyny, Guilt and Damage
