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WE ARE

HUMAN

R ES P O N S IB ILIT Y

DEATH

I N T H E S H A D O W O F

W E R E C O G N I S E D A M A N ’ S G R E A T R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH WILFRED OWEN

W E G R I E V E W E F I G H T W E H O N O U R WE ARE HUMAN

W E G R I E V E

APPLE TREE

‘ T O P P L E D ’ T O T H E S I D E O F T H E S TA G E

‘ S T I L L C L I N G I N G ’ T O T H E PA S T

HUMAN

T H E P L A Y I N T E R R O G A T E S

MORTALITY

MORALITY

PAST

W O U N D S O F T H E

1947

1946

A R E S T I L L F E L T

THEY

A N G U I S H

A U D I E N C E

TIME

‘ W A I T I N G ’

S U S P E N S I O N O F

‘A COU PL E OF Y E AR S ’, ‘ T HR E E Y E AR S ’

FUTILITY

A R A I L R O A D S T A T I O N O F ‘N E V E R TOOK U P OU R LIV ES’

‘ N E V E R C O M E S I N ’

FA U LT

L I N E S

T H E

I don't know. I'm beginning to think we don't really know him. They say in the war he was such a killer. Here he was always afraid of mice. I don't know him. I don't know what he'll do. This one, everything bothers him. You make a deal, overcharge two cents, and his hair falls out.

MOTHER AND KELLER ACT THREE, 84

ISOLATION

IRREPARABLE

BOTH SONS

W E F I G H T

VALUES

LOS S O F

ANGER

G E O R G E ’ S

S U R G I N G B A C K ‘ B L O O D I N H I S E Y E ’ S TA N D S T O J U D G E A N TA G O N I S T I C T O N E

His father destroyed your family. (surging back at him) They know he was a liar the first time, but in the appeal they believed the rotten lie. He simply told your father to kill pilots, and covered himself in bed!

ACT TWO, 58, 59, 73

INTOLERANCE

T O W A R D S T H E S A V A G E A C T I O N S G E O R G E R E P R E S E N T S T H E P L AY ’ S

E C H O I N G M I L L E R ’ S O W N S TA N C E O N W A R P R O F I T E E R I N G

KILLER?

‘ T H E M A N N E V E R L E A R N E D H O W T O TA K E T H E B L A M E ’ ‘ T H ERE ARE CE RTAIN PEO PL E WH O W O UL D R AT H ER S EE E V E R Y B O D Y H U N G B E F O R E T H E Y ’ L L TA K E B L A M E ’

Who worked for nothin’ in that war? When they ship a gun or a truck outa Detroit before they got their price? Is that clean? It's dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace, it's nickels and dimes, what's clean? Half the goddam country is gotta go if I go! That's why you can't tell me.

JOE KELLER ACT THREE, 89

VILLAIN

PART I CI PAN T

OR

W H A T

H O W

But here? 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... The world’s that way, how can I take it

• ut on him? What sense does that

make? This is a zoo, a zoo! (88)

SEE IT

HUMAN

J O E A S K S C H R I S T O U S I N G T H E V O C A B U L A R Y O F V I C T I M H O O D

• ‘ I N E VE R T H OU G H T ’
• ‘ I SW E AR ’
• ‘ I T H OU G H T ’

• ‘ W H AT COU LD I D O’

CASUALTY

JOE PORTRAYS HIMSELF AS A

OF THE WAR ‘PROCESS’

R E G A R D L E S S , B OT H K E L L E R A N D T H E M I L I TA R Y B E T R AY T H E R E L AT I O N S H I P B E T W E E N I N D I V I D U A L A N D S O C I E T Y

HAMARTIA

J O E K E L L E R ’ S

‘ FO R YO U ’

‘FOR BOTH OF YOU’

N A R R O W V I S I O N O F

RETRIBUTION

LETTER

C O M E S V I A T H E

HOPE

U N I V E R S E

KELLER DIES.

CHRIS SURVIVES.

W E H O N O U R

RESPONSIBILITY

LANGUAGE OF MORAL IDEALISM ‘THE LOVE A MAN CAN HAVE’ ‘MAN FOR MAN’, ‘FOR EACH OTHER’ ‘A KIND OF—RESPONSIBILITY’

Because they weren't just men. For instance, one time it’d been raining several days and this kid came to me, and gave me his last pair of dry

• socks. Put them in my pocket. That's
• nly a little thing—but... That's the

kind of guys I had. They didn’t die; they killed themselves for each other.

CHRIS KELLER ACT ONE, 38

MONUMENT

HONOUR

GREATNESS

INSPIRE

FAMILY

LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN AS ’MOTHER McKELLER’

‘KID’ ‘KIND OF GUYS’ ‘MY BOYS’

TERMS OF AFFECTION AND OWNERSHIP

MORAL ARBITER

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

C O N T R A D I C T I O N ?

INTERROGATION - AGGRESSIVE, RHETORICAL QUESTIONS ANIMALISTIC - ‘BURNING FURY’, ‘HIS FIST POUNDS DOWN’

ALL MY SONS

D O H I S L A S T W O R D S S H OW ‘ H U M A N I T Y ’ A N D ‘ H O N O R ’ ?

IS KELLER’S CONFESSION

HALF-HEARTED?

B U T I T H I N K T O H I M T H E Y W E R E

JESUS

A M A N C A N ’ T B E A I N T H I S W O R L D ( 8 9 )

CHRIS AND ‘THAT PHONY IDEALISM OF HIS’ (SUE, 49)

W E A R E H U M A N

I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. 
 I never saw you as a man… You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it.

CHRIS KELLER ACT THREE, 89, 91

YOU

BETTER CAN BE

C H R I S A P P E A L S T O H I S F A M I L Y A N D T H E A U D I E N C E T O B E M O R A L LY R E S P O N S I B L E , E M B R A C E T H E G R E AT E R G O O D

F O R G I V E

N O W

SYMPATHY

JOE IS HUMAN AND IF WE ARE HUMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the

• continent. Any man’s death

diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore, 
 never ask for whom the bell tolls; 
 it tolls for thee.

JOHN DONNE MEDITATION XVII

men cannot walk away

from certain of theirdeeds.

clash

self-interest

between

human solidarity

and

but is centred on the

The play persists with the message that

H E A R T S

T H E P L A Y A S K S F O R O U R T O B E A T O N F O R E V E R Y S O N