![]() ![]() Quentin zeroes in on distorted emotions, marital complexities, and other intimate struggles. That one moved not in a dry circle but on an upward path toward some elevation, where. But underlying it all, I see now, there was a presumption. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you are young you prove how brave you are, or smart then, what a good lover then, a good father finally, how wise, or powerful, or what-the-hell-ever. more and more I see that for many years I looked at life like a case at law. Here the moralist (and retired attorney) Quentin sits in judgment upon his own conscience, his own values, his own actions: The play’s protagonist, Quentin, in whose mind the play’s set pieces take place, subscribes to the simple rule: “You tell the truth, even against yourself.” The play is fabricated as a trial or, more fittingly, an inquest. Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” takes the form of an investigation into the forces which give rise to incomplete and destructive human relationships. ![]()
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