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A Memory of Two Mondays
A Memory of Two Mondays is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse during the Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United States. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a college education in the midst of people stumbling through the workday in a haze of hopelessness and despondency and alcoholism. Einstein Books' edition of "A Memory Of Two Mondays" contains supplementary â "Tragedy And The Common Man", an essay by Arthur Miller. â An excerpt from "An Enemy Of The People", by Arthur Miller. â A few selected quotes of Arthur Miller.
72 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1955
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Arthur Miller
540 books3,179 followersWorks of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include
Death of a Salesman
(1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and
The Crucible
(1953).
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
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August 14, 2023
- ذكرى بين يومين، بفاصل يقارب السنة بين الإثنين الأول والثاني، المكان هو نفسه (المخزن)، الشخصيات ذاتها مع فرقين اثنين: "بيرت" يرحل نحو الكلية و "غاس" نحو الموت، حتمية الإرتحال من المكان بالنسبة للشاب ومن الزمان بالنسبة ل "غاس"!
- المسرحية عابقة بالرمزيات من المخزن-السجن-الحياة الى الزجاج المتسخ بالغبار والذي يحجب الخارج-الحركة-التغيير عنه الى روح الشباب والانطلاق نحو المستقبل وغيرها الكثير...، كما انها تمتلئ بالذكريات، الحنين، الصحبة، الروتين، الخمر، وغيرها من المواضيع والثيمات.
- المسرحية عابقة بالرمزيات من المخزن-السجن-الحياة الى الزجاج المتسخ بالغبار والذي يحجب الخارج-الحركة-التغيير عنه الى روح الشباب والانطلاق نحو المستقبل وغيرها الكثير...، كما انها تمتلئ بالذكريات، الحنين، الصحبة، الروتين، الخمر، وغيرها من المواضيع والثيمات.
March 7, 2013
Some say this play has no plot but they are just missing it. It is the story of a young man passing through a world that is like a trap. It is a trap that he is able to escape only because he lives with his mother. He receives 15 dollars a week and is able to save 11 of it so that he can go to college. The only other person to escape is Gus, but it is not the way most would like to escape. It is a memory. Many think of it as realism like Chekov, but it is actually expressionism because it is an amalgam of many days not just two and not just mondays. It is a memory of times that were very difficult and the people you worked with were like family. In fact that family like atmosphere of people looking out for one another is what got you through it. I loved this story.
October 20, 2022
A college-bound youth works alongside older people stuck in dead end jobs. Been there, done that - and the tenderness rings true.
November 18, 2024
دو تا نمایشنامه تو کتابه. اولی از آرتور میلر که اگه زندگیت خیلی یکنواخته و اگه غرق روزمرگی شدی. بفرمایید روزمرگی و یکنواختی و پوچی بیشتر،این بار مهمون میلر. نه یه جمله طلاییای نه یه فراز و فرودی نه نکتهی نغزی. هیچی. هیچ و پوچ و کسالتبار.
دومی از لوئیجی ییراندلو، در رقابت با نمایشنامه اول وضعیت بهتری داشت. خیلی خیلی کوتاه بود (خدا رو شکر) و تو همون کوتاهی چیزهای خوبی از توش درمیومد هرچند خیلی... نمیدونم شاید اصلاً تقصیری متوجه نویسندهها نیست و ترجمه بده یا شایدم از پایه کتاب بیخودیه. مخصوصاً نمایشنامه میلر که واقعاً حرفی واسه گفتن نداشت یا اگر داشت ناچیز بود.
دومی از لوئیجی ییراندلو، در رقابت با نمایشنامه اول وضعیت بهتری داشت. خیلی خیلی کوتاه بود (خدا رو شکر) و تو همون کوتاهی چیزهای خوبی از توش درمیومد هرچند خیلی... نمیدونم شاید اصلاً تقصیری متوجه نویسندهها نیست و ترجمه بده یا شایدم از پایه کتاب بیخودیه. مخصوصاً نمایشنامه میلر که واقعاً حرفی واسه گفتن نداشت یا اگر داشت ناچیز بود.
May 12, 2009
SPOILERS:
All right, I'm going to give away stuff here. I think I'm the only person who's ever going to write about what happens in this one-act play. It was written in 1955 or so. It's clearly about Arthur Miller's time working in an auto-parts place just before going off to college. It takes place in New York City just after Hitler has become Chancellor of Germany. Not only do we learn at the start of the play that he's just "taken over Germany," but we learn that most of the people who work there have not been following the news. A sense, then, is established of people heading toward something cataclysmic while going through their workaday motions.
The main character, Bert, is the Ishmael of this crew. Clearly, he's off to a better life than the others. He has a doppelganger, a young Irish immigrant around his age, who has all the intellect of Bert but a reverse destiny. He is going downhill and knows it. This Irish character is not only the comic relief, he is the tragic figure in this problem play. I call it a problem play not because it is problematic but because this is the term I've heard used about those of Shakespeare's plays which are not quite comedies and not quite tragedies. A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS is necessarily nostalgic, given the word "Memory" in the title, but it is also about memory. Stuff which seems of the utmost importance to Bert when he is young is shown to be, not trivial, but impossible, for the mature playwright Bert clearly has become, to consider except through the light of the larger tragedy of events which came long after the events of the play.
There are, indeed, two Mondays. The one at the start is a summer day when Bert tells his co-workers (though not for the first time, apparently) that he thinks he'll get into college next year, and the Monday at the end of the play, which is the day he leaves work, bound for college. In the middle is a sequence, quite dreamlike, during which Bert and the young Irishman stand, washing the windows, talking about their dreams and nightmares as the weather beyond the windows changes. Although less than a year passes in this sequence, an emotional era has passed. The Irishman loses his sense of poetry in a steady surrender to drink, while Bert becomes something of a figure of resentment for the other workers, who are beginning to perceive him as someone who will never have to see their like again. Never mind that the war is going to overtake the country in six years; the world of Bert's co-workers is limited to this job, but Bert's is opening up. Long after the war (although '55 was only ten years after its end--not very long from my standpoint in 2009), Bert can ONLY think of them as the figures from that bittersweet warehouse job.
Of course, Miller does not come out and say Bert became a playwright, but this play can only be understood as a work by somebody absolutely known to his audience. A guy like Miller could pull that off.
I think this is better than almost any major work by almost any other American playwright, including O'Neill. It is funny, ironic and moving, giving dignity to its shabby characters. And it must be great to hear the actor who plays the Irishman sing that nostalgic song which so captures the mood of A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS: "The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone."
You'll find this work collected in Arthur Miller's book, EIGHT PLAYS. Stage it, if you can. there's a DVD of a stage production taped in the seventies. I have not seen it. But it was great to read this play the other night. Miller's stage directions are to-the-point, but really vivid.
All right, I'm going to give away stuff here. I think I'm the only person who's ever going to write about what happens in this one-act play. It was written in 1955 or so. It's clearly about Arthur Miller's time working in an auto-parts place just before going off to college. It takes place in New York City just after Hitler has become Chancellor of Germany. Not only do we learn at the start of the play that he's just "taken over Germany," but we learn that most of the people who work there have not been following the news. A sense, then, is established of people heading toward something cataclysmic while going through their workaday motions.
The main character, Bert, is the Ishmael of this crew. Clearly, he's off to a better life than the others. He has a doppelganger, a young Irish immigrant around his age, who has all the intellect of Bert but a reverse destiny. He is going downhill and knows it. This Irish character is not only the comic relief, he is the tragic figure in this problem play. I call it a problem play not because it is problematic but because this is the term I've heard used about those of Shakespeare's plays which are not quite comedies and not quite tragedies. A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS is necessarily nostalgic, given the word "Memory" in the title, but it is also about memory. Stuff which seems of the utmost importance to Bert when he is young is shown to be, not trivial, but impossible, for the mature playwright Bert clearly has become, to consider except through the light of the larger tragedy of events which came long after the events of the play.
There are, indeed, two Mondays. The one at the start is a summer day when Bert tells his co-workers (though not for the first time, apparently) that he thinks he'll get into college next year, and the Monday at the end of the play, which is the day he leaves work, bound for college. In the middle is a sequence, quite dreamlike, during which Bert and the young Irishman stand, washing the windows, talking about their dreams and nightmares as the weather beyond the windows changes. Although less than a year passes in this sequence, an emotional era has passed. The Irishman loses his sense of poetry in a steady surrender to drink, while Bert becomes something of a figure of resentment for the other workers, who are beginning to perceive him as someone who will never have to see their like again. Never mind that the war is going to overtake the country in six years; the world of Bert's co-workers is limited to this job, but Bert's is opening up. Long after the war (although '55 was only ten years after its end--not very long from my standpoint in 2009), Bert can ONLY think of them as the figures from that bittersweet warehouse job.
Of course, Miller does not come out and say Bert became a playwright, but this play can only be understood as a work by somebody absolutely known to his audience. A guy like Miller could pull that off.
I think this is better than almost any major work by almost any other American playwright, including O'Neill. It is funny, ironic and moving, giving dignity to its shabby characters. And it must be great to hear the actor who plays the Irishman sing that nostalgic song which so captures the mood of A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS: "The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone."
You'll find this work collected in Arthur Miller's book, EIGHT PLAYS. Stage it, if you can. there's a DVD of a stage production taped in the seventies. I have not seen it. But it was great to read this play the other night. Miller's stage directions are to-the-point, but really vivid.
February 3, 2022
The people in this drama seemed very real to me.In many ways Arthur Miller has written a memoir.When interviewed about "A Memory of Two Mondays"he admitted he had always had an affection for the play because it had sprung so directly from his own experience.He had worked in a warehouse for two years in the early thirties passing through a world where there were people he considered "Caught"due to lack of money.It was the Great Depression where many were"Caught by necessity-by their work,and their lives."He had tried to capture the mood of the time where what had seemed "an endless eight hour day,five and a half days a week,working for a pittance"was nonetheless a "haven" of sorts because,he explained, "you had a job,which was miraculous."He actually considered himself lucky.
He certainly was.He escaped!-and lived to tell the tale!
He certainly was.He escaped!-and lived to tell the tale!
June 27, 2019
Captures an American era during which there was a 25% unemployment rate, weird to think about
June 5, 2010
Most of Arthur miller’s plays such as “A View from the Bridge”, “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman” etc. are categorized as modern tragedies; the struggles of the everyday man; social American tragedies, focusing on the dark side of the American dream. “All my Sons” is a classic play, about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of a World War II corruption case, when two brothers come together to dispose of their parents' estate, their divergent attitudes and dispositions become increasingly accentuated: “Price”. Exploring the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate: (A View from the Bridge). Revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association, but placed the outrage of McCarthyism in historical perspective: (The crucible). An anguished consideration of mortality and the gulf between men and women: (Elegy for a lady). Re-creating Dante's hell inside the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable: (Incident at Vichy). A darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question; What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today: (Resurrection blues). A casual, warm-spirited and innocuous musical chalk talk whose future is likely to reside with amateur church and synagogue theater groups: (Up from Paradise). So simple in style and so inevitable in theme, where Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre: (Death of Salesman). A superb drama though Miller says; "…a love story between a man and his son, and... between both of them and America"!
Though Miller’s works have always some social-political back ground in one or another way, but plays such as; “The archbishop’s ceiling” are referring directly to political issues (political situation in East Block in 1950’s and 60’s.) He has also plays which are less interesting; “A Memory of Two Mondays”, “Danger: Memory”; “I can’t remember anything”, “Clara”, “After the fall”, “Some kind of love story”, “The Last Yankee”, “Broken Glass”, “The Creation of the World and Other Business”, “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”, “American Clock”, etc.
Though Miller’s works have always some social-political back ground in one or another way, but plays such as; “The archbishop’s ceiling” are referring directly to political issues (political situation in East Block in 1950’s and 60’s.) He has also plays which are less interesting; “A Memory of Two Mondays”, “Danger: Memory”; “I can’t remember anything”, “Clara”, “After the fall”, “Some kind of love story”, “The Last Yankee”, “Broken Glass”, “The Creation of the World and Other Business”, “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”, “American Clock”, etc.
August 17, 2016
I have recently been reading Arthur millers work and have to say this particular one for me is the best work he has written. I believe this is so underrated and not gave the props it deserves. maybe I have a strong connection within the story that Arthur's trying to tell and show, I can relate to this play 100% and that feel of sadness that Bert has when he leaves he doesn't say it's all written in the subtexts. It's a memory which indicates already that everyone and the workplace was close to berts heart. You have to look at the detail to understand. Fantastic work again from the godfather of play writing.
February 19, 2024
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here……………
The Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
Someone says:
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
This is a one-act play of Miller. He scrutinizes an assemblage of factory workers trapped without hope of relief in their mechanical jobs and dreary lives. In two Mondays, detached by a span of years, one in the hot summer, the other in the winter of a new year, the meaningless and vacant lives of the workers are exposed; only Bert, a deprived student, shows some hopefulness of escaping.
On the first Monday, Bert starts at the factory in order to earn money for a college education.
On the second Monday, Bert takes leave of his friends, whose jobs and whose lives have remained unchanged. Awkwardly, he tries to find the right words for parting. His friends, incapable to trust that anyone escapes the factory, all but disregard him.
Bert in conclusion leaves, conscious that he will soon be forgotten; with him go the hope and optimism that have brightened the factory.
In the end, I’d get creative and return to ‘The Idiot’.
Dostoyevsky writes:
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought that refused to take shape. Before him was the shining sky, below him the lake, around him the horizon, bright and infinite, as if it went on forever. For a long time he looked and suffered.
He remembered now how he had stretched out his arms to that bright, infinite blue and wept. What had tormented him was that he was a total stranger to it all. What was this banquet, what was this great everlasting feast, to which he had long been drawn, always, ever since childhood, and which he could never join?
Every morning the same bright sun rises; every morning there is a rainbow over the waterfall; every evening the highest snowcapped mountain, there, far away, at the edge of the sky, burns with a crimson flame; every little fly that buzzes near him in a hot ray of sunlight participates in this whole chorus: knows its place, loves it, and is happy; every little blade of grass grows and is happy!
And everything has its path, and everything knows its path, goes with a song and comes back with a song; only he knows nothing, understands nothing, neither people nor sounds, a stranger to everything and a castaway.”
I’m sure you’ve got the point.
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here……………
The Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
Someone says:
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
This is a one-act play of Miller. He scrutinizes an assemblage of factory workers trapped without hope of relief in their mechanical jobs and dreary lives. In two Mondays, detached by a span of years, one in the hot summer, the other in the winter of a new year, the meaningless and vacant lives of the workers are exposed; only Bert, a deprived student, shows some hopefulness of escaping.
On the first Monday, Bert starts at the factory in order to earn money for a college education.
On the second Monday, Bert takes leave of his friends, whose jobs and whose lives have remained unchanged. Awkwardly, he tries to find the right words for parting. His friends, incapable to trust that anyone escapes the factory, all but disregard him.
Bert in conclusion leaves, conscious that he will soon be forgotten; with him go the hope and optimism that have brightened the factory.
In the end, I’d get creative and return to ‘The Idiot’.
Dostoyevsky writes:
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought that refused to take shape. Before him was the shining sky, below him the lake, around him the horizon, bright and infinite, as if it went on forever. For a long time he looked and suffered.
He remembered now how he had stretched out his arms to that bright, infinite blue and wept. What had tormented him was that he was a total stranger to it all. What was this banquet, what was this great everlasting feast, to which he had long been drawn, always, ever since childhood, and which he could never join?
Every morning the same bright sun rises; every morning there is a rainbow over the waterfall; every evening the highest snowcapped mountain, there, far away, at the edge of the sky, burns with a crimson flame; every little fly that buzzes near him in a hot ray of sunlight participates in this whole chorus: knows its place, loves it, and is happy; every little blade of grass grows and is happy!
And everything has its path, and everything knows its path, goes with a song and comes back with a song; only he knows nothing, understands nothing, neither people nor sounds, a stranger to everything and a castaway.”
I’m sure you’ve got the point.
August 28, 2023
"Ricordo di due lunedì" A. Miller: 2
Ripetitivo e angosciante per scelta... molto ben riuscita!
1934? New York
Nel reparto spedizioni di una ditta di pezzi di ricambio per automobili, giorno dopo giorno, gli impiegati seguono una routine che sia avvicina di più alla non vita che alla vita stessa. Stesse battute ripetute, stessi discorsi, stessi problemi, stessi cazziatoni sul lavoro dal capo, stesso disordine e stessi topi. Il tempo però inesorabilmente corre e trascina con sè queste persone che lentamente cambiano e si spengono nella monotonia.
Bert, il ragazzo assunto da poco che vuole un lavoro solo per potersi permettere l'università, è solo il pretesto per mostrare questo spaccato di vita in cui gli impiegati si conoscono fin troppo bene, ma preferiscono mantenere rapporti superficiali tra loro, dove i ritmi sono scanditi da fogliettini con le varie ordinazioni e dove un giorno è quasi identico al precedente e al successivo. Man mano che ci si addentra nell'opera, il ritmo (ripetitivo per scelta dell'autore) diventa sempre più serrato e incalzante, come quando gli ultimi granelli di sabbia sembrano scorrere più rapidi attraverso la strettoia della clessidra. L'opera finisce con l'ultimo giorno di Bert che riesce, tra un gesto automatico e l'altro, a salutare tutti e a scendere da questa giostra, che gira in continuazione su sè stessa ma non si muove di un millimetro, per entrare nella vita vera.
Ripetitivo e angosciante per scelta... molto ben riuscita!
1934? New York
Nel reparto spedizioni di una ditta di pezzi di ricambio per automobili, giorno dopo giorno, gli impiegati seguono una routine che sia avvicina di più alla non vita che alla vita stessa. Stesse battute ripetute, stessi discorsi, stessi problemi, stessi cazziatoni sul lavoro dal capo, stesso disordine e stessi topi. Il tempo però inesorabilmente corre e trascina con sè queste persone che lentamente cambiano e si spengono nella monotonia.
Bert, il ragazzo assunto da poco che vuole un lavoro solo per potersi permettere l'università, è solo il pretesto per mostrare questo spaccato di vita in cui gli impiegati si conoscono fin troppo bene, ma preferiscono mantenere rapporti superficiali tra loro, dove i ritmi sono scanditi da fogliettini con le varie ordinazioni e dove un giorno è quasi identico al precedente e al successivo. Man mano che ci si addentra nell'opera, il ritmo (ripetitivo per scelta dell'autore) diventa sempre più serrato e incalzante, come quando gli ultimi granelli di sabbia sembrano scorrere più rapidi attraverso la strettoia della clessidra. L'opera finisce con l'ultimo giorno di Bert che riesce, tra un gesto automatico e l'altro, a salutare tutti e a scendere da questa giostra, che gira in continuazione su sè stessa ma non si muove di un millimetro, per entrare nella vita vera.
March 27, 2018
A short one act play, but there are two transitions. Set in an automobile parts warehouse in the early 1930s, the first part of the play is set one Monday morning during the summer, then there is a transition and it is another Monday morning in the winter (I presume 18 months after the first section), and then there is a final transition to a short sequence that takes place the following day. There’s not really a story, rather there is a series of incidents – and there isn’t a central character, rather there is an ensemble, the workers at the warehouse. Not that much happens, but there is progression. In the first section there is a sense of camaraderie, friendships, but also tensions. One character drinks and arrives in a stupor, the others (some grudgingly) try to cover for him when an owner turns up. In the second section the drunk is now sober, but another character is drunk – and yet another is suffering from the night before. Maybe it shows workers being worn down by their lives. A youngster is saving up to go to college and the last scene is his last day: he leaves but it doesn’t have much impact on anyone else. Maybe in production it can come together, maybe there are repeated motifs holding it together...maybe I just wasn’t in the mood when I read it: it had its interests but maybe a little forgettable.
October 12, 2017
موظفون في مخزن بيع قطع سيارات يعيشون يومي اثنين عاديين مع القارئ
الشخصيات متنوعة وليس فيهم بطل
فيهم الشاب المفعم بالحياة والباحث عن مستقبل افضل
فيهم اللامبالي وفيهم الحكيم وصاحب الراي وفيهم الصارم والقيادي ولكن ما الرابط المشترك بينهم؟
انه ذلك المخزن هو رمز لحياتنا ورتابتها ومن يمرون فيها وكيف يرحلون دون ان تتغيرا عجلة الحياة
هذا المخزن استمر رغم موت احدهم واستقالة الاخر الانه استمر بنفس النظام ونفس الوتيرة
لم تجذبني الحبكة نعم انها رمزية جميلة لكني لم احب الاسلوب ولا الحبكة ولم اشعر بما اشعر به من تعاطف وسعادة مع شخصيات المسرحية ربما لان البطل جماد اكتسبنا شيء من صفاته
الشخصيات متنوعة وليس فيهم بطل
فيهم الشاب المفعم بالحياة والباحث عن مستقبل افضل
فيهم اللامبالي وفيهم الحكيم وصاحب الراي وفيهم الصارم والقيادي ولكن ما الرابط المشترك بينهم؟
انه ذلك المخزن هو رمز لحياتنا ورتابتها ومن يمرون فيها وكيف يرحلون دون ان تتغيرا عجلة الحياة
هذا المخزن استمر رغم موت احدهم واستقالة الاخر الانه استمر بنفس النظام ونفس الوتيرة
لم تجذبني الحبكة نعم انها رمزية جميلة لكني لم احب الاسلوب ولا الحبكة ولم اشعر بما اشعر به من تعاطف وسعادة مع شخصيات المسرحية ربما لان البطل جماد اكتسبنا شيء من صفاته
November 11, 2022
Too many characters and few meaningful interactions. Slow paced to the point of being boring. Lots of stage direction. The sexual assault isn’t addressed at all, and only some of that can be blamed on the time period. However, despite the faults the tone of the second half is excellent. Dirge-like. Realistic. The shallowness of the relationship of these people exposed. The truth of working with other people.
December 11, 2020
به راستی تکرار، روزمرگی و بی تفاوتی و سرشدگی چه بر سر انسانهای مدرن آورده؟
آنها که از کار کردن در دوشنبهها(آغاز هفته) بی زارند اما هربار می آیند چراکه عادت کرده اند!
حتی مرگ و از دست دادن و رفتن هم تغییری در آنها ایجاد نمیکند!
(ترجمه محمود رهبر و اعظم خاتم را مطالعه کردم که روان بود اما اشکالات فرمی نمایشنامه ای وجود داشت.)
21 آذرماه سال 1399
آنها که از کار کردن در دوشنبهها(آغاز هفته) بی زارند اما هربار می آیند چراکه عادت کرده اند!
حتی مرگ و از دست دادن و رفتن هم تغییری در آنها ایجاد نمیکند!
(ترجمه محمود رهبر و اعظم خاتم را مطالعه کردم که روان بود اما اشکالات فرمی نمایشنامه ای وجود داشت.)
21 آذرماه سال 1399
December 31, 2021
Twelve men, two women, it’s a play set in a warehouse, where men send off car and truck parts to parts unknown. Young men, middle aged men, and old men. I'd never heard of this play, but I'd sure like to see a production of it. This is from a collection of Miller plays I bought from TCL on 9.25.21.
August 7, 2024
میلر زمانی که این نمایشنامه را نوشته اذعان کرده است که مستقیما این نمایشنامه از خودش نشات گرفته است و برای همین است که از دید خواننده آدمهای این نمایشنامه چقدر واقعی به نظر میرسند.
او در یک انبار به مدت دو سال کار میکرده و به نوعی عمیقا با مشکل بی پولی و دنیای آدمهایی که با ایم مشکل دست و پنجه نرم میکنند، درگیر است.
شاید بتوان آن را یک تراژدی روزمره از زندگی امریکایی نام برد.
او در یک انبار به مدت دو سال کار میکرده و به نوعی عمیقا با مشکل بی پولی و دنیای آدمهایی که با ایم مشکل دست و پنجه نرم میکنند، درگیر است.
شاید بتوان آن را یک تراژدی روزمره از زندگی امریکایی نام برد.
October 12, 2021
Very fun and wholesome to read, i loved how every charchter got its own chance to shine and show their own struggles and fears
The plot is drowned in nostalgic atmosphere and expressing the foolish system of capitalism and how it failed the working citizens
The plot is drowned in nostalgic atmosphere and expressing the foolish system of capitalism and how it failed the working citizens
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May 17, 2021Pretty Good
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September 23, 2022Not a lot of revolutionary thought here. But Miller knows human beings, and that’s worth a lot.
January 18, 2023
هیهات از این ترجمه
به چه زبونی بگیم اگر فارسی بلد نیستید ترجمه نکنید؟
به چه زبونی بگیم اگر فارسی بلد نیستید ترجمه نکنید؟
January 20, 2023
I loved how real and fast paced the play felt. It had a more genuine story to it than most literature I’ve read.
January 9, 2021
This one has not aged well, and some of the sexist humor will turn off the modern woman today. It is a study of several characters in a workplace and tries to give a sense of what their life is like day after day. Eventually one of the characters dies and you question whether it was really a full filling life for that character, or any of them really, as they then try to continue on with their daily working habit.
This one did not really do much for me. I was not emotionally attached to any particular character. The workplace set and the relationship to New York was more interesting to me from a historical perspective than any of the characters were.
I don't think any modern actor or producer would be interested in doing it today. But if you like Arthur Miller it's worth a read, not too painful or anything.
This one did not really do much for me. I was not emotionally attached to any particular character. The workplace set and the relationship to New York was more interesting to me from a historical perspective than any of the characters were.
I don't think any modern actor or producer would be interested in doing it today. But if you like Arthur Miller it's worth a read, not too painful or anything.
September 23, 2011
This is a play set in a auto parts warehouse in the time of the depression and Hitler's rise. Miller does not explicitly take on any social issues in this play so there isn't a "message" underlying everything. Rather it is a slice of life of a group of workers who have to be in each other's life not by choice but because they are working together.
January 24, 2012
Very haunting in a depressing sort of way... Seems like it should be deleted scenes of Tom and Jim's life in the warehouse from Tennessee Williams "The Glass Menagerie", which lent it a strange out of place feel.
March 14, 2012
Although it is just one act it seems very underrated and exceptionally poignant in these times of economic struggles. Great dialogue, memorable characters and a theme that continues to strike home half seventy years later.
March 4, 2008
Terrific
May 9, 2017
The dreariness of everyday factory work. It was ok but no Death of a Salesman.
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