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All My Sons Context - Coggle Diagram
All My Sons Context
American Dream
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Fuelled by fear of the rich, citizens wanted to prove that spirituality was more important than money.
4 American dreams: Abundance, Democracy of Goods, Freedom of Choice, Novelty.
Women adopted masculine roles in WW2, but when the men returned there seemed to be backlash.
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Impact of WW2
Wages and employement increased, TGD seemed to be over.
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War profiteering
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Enormous profits were available for selling rationed foods like cigarettes, chocolate, coffee, and butter.
Hegemonic Masculinity
A practice that legitimises men's dominant position in society,
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AMS was inspired by a news article that discussed a man's daughter who reported him for shipping damaged plane parts and got him arrested.
" It was fortunate that as I finished the play, the war ended" - Miller
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In the 1930s, The Great Depression happened, causing 1.6 million unemployment rates in 1929 to sky rocket to 14 million in 1933.