Arthur Miller's Ironic Resurrection

Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues (2002) is a political satire that attacks the combination of government, business, and the media that arrogates so much social power in the contemporary world. Expressed through his plays, essays, and testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956, MillerÕs politics and activism are complex and sometimes contradictory, and in this play, he takes the cynical view that belief, aspiration, and revolution are no longer tenable. In the end, MillerÕs is the theatre of irony, and his trust in the individual and liberalism is equivocal, so he offers grim laughter as the only viable response to experience.