Contemporary Issues in Arthur Miller’s Mr Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues: Greed and Violence
Contemporary Issues in Arthur Miller’s Mr Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues: Greed and Violence

Summary/Abstract: Although both written more than a decade ago, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, Arthur Miller’s plays, Mr. Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues, prove timeless in a conflict-dominated world, where traditional values seem dissipated and human interaction is dictated by greed and violence. While Mr. Peters’ is a play on the individual search for meaning in an increasingly exhausting and depressing world, “in Resurrection Blues lifestyle has replaced life. (…) Money, drugs, ambition, pragmatism prevail. Religion is either compromised or appropriated to serve other causes than the spirit.” Miller’s theatre thus becomes both a reflection of the tormented contemporary spirit and a means to investigate the causes which have brought humanity to this point. Once more, theatre proves able to identify and transmit quintessential aspects of humanity and, at the same time, provide clues on how reconciliation can be reached.

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