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L E C T U R E T H R E E CARRY O N S O L D IE R A N I N T R O D U C T I O N T O T H E C O N T E X T A N D C O N C E R N S I N A LL M Y S O NS

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ALL MY SONS IS BUILT ON CHRIS’S STRUGGLE TO LIVE WITH HONOUR TO BE SELFLESS , NOT SELFISH TO FIND CREATION FROM DESTRUCTION AN ICONIC MOMENT OF COURAGE TRIUMPH SOLIDARITY RAISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA JOE ROSENTHAL

CHRIS KELLER Everything was being destroyed , see, but it seemed to me that one new thing was made . A kind of — responsibility. Man for man. ACT ONE, 38

CHRIS KELLER And then I came home and it was incredible. I — there was no meaning in it here . I felt — what you said — ashamed somehow. Because nobody was charged at all. It seemed to make suckers out of a lot of guys. I felt wrong to be alive, to open the bank-book… Otherwise what you have is really loot , and there's blood on it. I didn’t want to take any of it . ACT ONE, 38

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ALL MY SONS IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY… t h e TRUMAN TRUMAN C O M M I T T E E C O M M I T T E E A CAMPAIGN AGAINST FRAUD AND MISCONDUCT ‘HE'D LIKE TO TAKE EVERY MAN WHO MADE MONEY IN THE WAR AND PUT HIM UP AGAINST A WALL.’ (GEORGE, ACT TWO, 69)

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH

A WORLD WAR II PROFITEER THE WOLF OF WAR STREET “EVERYBODY KNEW A LOT OF ILLICIT FORTUNES WERE BEING MADE. ALL THE RULES WERE BEING VIOLATED EVERY DAY BUT YOU DIDN’T WANT TO MENTION IT.”

JOE KELLER Who worked for nothin’ in that war? It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes ; war and peace, it’s nickels and dimes, what’s clean? ACT THREE, 89

I S K E L L E R P U T T O JUSTICE F O R C R I M E S A G A I N S T S O C I E T Y ? A S O C I E T Y P L A C E D O N TRIAL F O R I T S I N H U M A N I T Y T H E E N D I N G I S A S O L E M N REMINDER F O R T H E A U D I E N C E T O …

S E E I T HUMAN F O R G I V E A N D L O V E O U R F E L L O W M A N AN APPEAL TO RE-EVALUATE OUR VALUES DON'T YOU LIVE IN THE WORLD? YOU’RE NOT EVEN AN ANIMAL , NO ANIMAL KILLS HIS OWN, WHAT ARE YOU? (ACT TWO, 78)

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A G R O W I N G Middle-class W A R E Q U A L S G R O W T H A M E R I C A N ‘ G O L D E N A G E ’ I M M E N S E P R O S P E R I T Y B E T T E R , R I C H E R L I V E S

Right THE TO HAPPINESS M AT E R I A L W E A LT H FA M I L I A L B L I S S INCREASED HOME INCREASED DOMESTIC MORE HAPPY OWNERSHIP CONSUMPTION FAMILIES

P R A G M A T I S M A N D T H E ‘ R I G H T ’ T O T H E AMERICAN M A E R D FRANK SUE ‘HIS HOUSE PAID OFF’ (67) ‘TOO R E A L I STI C’ ( 8 ) ‘MONEY.. IMPORTANT’ A Y D I L ‘THREE BABIES’ (65)

THE KELLERS The house is two stories high and has seven rooms… cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built. Now it is nicely painted, looks 
 tight and comfortable ... (Act One, 3)

S T A N D I N G A G A I N S T T H E S O C I A L T I D E CHRIS S T A N D S F O R S E L F - S A C R I F I C E A N D M O R A L I D E A L I S M ? YET H E T O O ‘ W A N T S ’ A ‘ B E A U T I F U L ’ L I F E T H E F A M I L Y I S P A R A M O U N T

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I N A C T O N E , F A M I L I A L HARMONY D R A M AT I C S T R U C T U R E T H E CRACKS E M E R G E L A T E R L E A D I N G T O COLLAPSE W H E N S O N P E R S E C U T E S F A T H E R T H E P L A Y A S D O M E S T I C T R A G E D Y

F A M I L I A L LOYALTY J O E , K A T E A N D C H R I S A L L F I E R C E L Y P R O T E C T T H E F A M I L Y A N D A R E B L I N D T O T H E I N T E R E S T S O F S O C I E T Y Y L I M A F I S J O E ’ S R A I S O N D ’ E T R E

JOE KELLER Nothin’s bigger than (the family) . And you're going to tell him, you understand? I'm his father and he's my son , and if there's something bigger than that I'll put a bullet in my head! ACT THREE, 83

I N T E R A C T I V E S E G M E N T S I E R H O J C CHRIS, RESPONSIBILITY. I DID IT FOR YOU. MAN FOR MAN. S Y N TA X S Y N TA X S U B J E C T & P E R S P E C T I V E ? S U B J E C T & P E R S P E C T I V E ? D I C T I O N D I C T I O N W H AT K I N D O F W O R D S ? W H AT K I N D O F W O R D S ? E F F E C T ? E F F E C T ? P U R P O S E P U R P O S E T H E U S E O F ‘ F O R ’ T H E U S E O F ‘ F O R ’

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T H E S O C I A L C O N T R A C T G O V E R N S T H E INDIVIDUAL T H E I N D I V I D U A L I S B O U N D T O T H E ‘ M E N C A N N O T W A L K A W A Y F R O M W I D E R I N T E R E S T S O F T H E C O M M U N I T Y C E R TA I N O F T H E I R D E E D S ’ A N D H I S R E L AT I O N S H I P W I T H SOCIETY ‘ T H E D I G N I T Y O F A D U T Y ’

S T A T E O F N A T U R E A S S T A T E O F W A R HOBBES HOBBES S E L F - I N T E R E S T C O M P E T I T I O N W A R A N D S T R I F E

A N O P P O S I N G V I E W S T A T E O F N A T U R E LOCKE LOCKE H O N O U R A N D D U T Y H A R M O N Y A N D S O L I D A R I T Y O B L I G A T I O N T O ‘ N O T H A R M ’ O T H E R S

J O E D I S R E GA R D O F OT HE R S C H R I S RESPONSIBILITY FOR M Y BOYS L A N G U A G E O F C O M P E T I T I O N L A N G U A G E O F H O N O U R T H A T ’ S T H E O N LY W A Y L I K E S O M E K I N D O F Y O U L I C K ‘ E M I S G U T S ! ( 3 2 ) A M O N U M E N T. . M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E T O H I M ( 3 8 )

CHRIS KELLER This is the land of the great big dogs , you don't love a man here, you eat him ! That's the principle; the only one we live by... it just happened to kill a few people this time, that's all. ACT THREE, 87

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