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All my sons themes
- family
- The play shows
the tension
between
families due to
a single incident
- Shows what
people do to
protect their
family (scandalise,
blame, lie)
- Yet there is a
breakdown in
family, a new
family is being
created
- wealth
- Justice and Judgement
- Joe Keller takes no
blame for the incident,
he claims to have
been sick that day.
- He receives no charges
and continues his life
with wealth and
supported by his family.
- Steve Deever
takes all blame
from the incident
- He is sent to prison
for life and is
abandoned by his
family
- Chris and Ann wish to marry
but fear the judgements of
their family
- Guilt and Blame
- Joe
- Puts the
blame on Steve
Deever
- Feels guilty for
causing the death
of the pilots
- Kate
- Feels guilty for
being a part of
Joe's scandal
- Larry
- Feels guilty for
his fathers
scandal
- George
- Tries to
persuade Joe to
come clean and
prove his
fathers
innocence
- Ann
- Has a sense
of guilt for
being with her
ex's brother
- Chris
- Has a sense of
guilt for being with
his brothers ex
- Morality and Ethics
- Joe
- When his buissness was
failing he shipped off faulty
parts and blamed his partner
- He sacrifised someone else for the
protection of his buissness, his
wealth and his life
- Chris
- Does not
question his
father about
the scandal
- This protects
the relationship
and his shares
of the buissness
- Larry
- Goes to seek
revenge/to
convince Joe to
come clean about
his father
- Changes his mind on
this when he
discoveres that his
sister is to marry chris
in order to keep a
stable relationship
within the family
- courage
- Memory and the Past
- Lies and Deciet
- Joe
- Lies about his
innocence of the
scandal that killed 21
pilots
- Kate
- Lied for Joe
saying he was
ill
- Chris
- Lies to himself
about the what
his father done
- Neighborhood
- Lies about Joe's scandal
and his innocents to
keep everything mutual