Modernism

Introduction: American Drama can foremost be known best for it’s ‘experimentalism’ in dramatic forms, but as Miller states the most evident theme in these works is the influence of the American Dream, the dream of freedom, equality, opportunity and making fortunes. Initially for years, dramatists kept promoting or praising this idea as a notion that

“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.”  ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge Introduction: Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novelist and poet, was deeply influenced by Romanticism. His works challenged the conventionalities of his time and transgressed the societal norms by diving deeply in the realities of the hypocrisy