Depression, Neurotic Weakness: The Main Theme of Arthur Miller’s a Memory of Two Mondays

Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays is memory of its protagonist, who unfolds it in the form a tale that forms the plot of the play. Tom Wingfield, who reveals the story of Tennessee Williams’s famous play The Glass Menagerie says, “The play is memory”. Bert, the chief exponent of Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays, has similar ideas while unfolding the story of the play. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were contemporary American dramatists. There are remarkable similarities we witness in the formats of both the plays. Protagonists of both the plays appear to similar neurotic inclination. The protagonists in both the plays find themselves in banal human situations they are not suitable for. And in both the plays they endeavour to make their existence meaningful and reasonable interesting. In fact, in both the plays the characters try to live aesthetically and romantically in an exclusive world devoid of any romance.

Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays is memory of its protagonist, who unfolds it in the form a tale that forms the plot of the play. Tom Wingfield, who reveals the story of Tennessee Williams’s famous play The Glass Menagerie says, “The play is memory”. Bert, the chief exponent of Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays, has similar ideas while unfolding the story of the play. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were contemporary American dramatists. There are remarkable similarities we witness in the formats of both the plays. Protagonists of both the plays appear to similar neurotic inclination. The protagonists in both the plays find themselves in banal human situations they are not suitable for. And in both the plays they endeavour to make their existence meaningful and reasonable interesting. In fact, in both the plays the characters try to live aesthetically and romantically in an exclusive world devoid of any romance.