All My Sons

All My Sons In this first final exam paper, I am going to discuss the lessons I learned from All My Sons, as well as the plot, themes, characters, sets, lights, and costumes. All of these are major aspects for creating a theatrical vision for obvious reasons. I plan on furthering the reasons during the rest of this paper. While highlighting the reasoning for these important aspects of theater, I want to make it clear that these elements are clear throughout whatever play, musical, etc. that is taken intro production. Which is one general lesson I have learned throughout this class, as a whole.
First off, I am going to discuss the lessons that I learned from reading this great play, All My Sons. As I said, I have learned that every little aspect of theater is greatly important in theatrical visions and this is a factor that will never change, even as the history of theater continues. Anyways, the first major theme I learned from All My Sons dealt with something very personal to pretty much every single human. This lesson dealt with the fact that everyone, no matter what, creates a reality for themselves. As seen in this play specifically, the reality created for most of the Keller family had to deal with creating the stereotypical American family environment. Like any other “created reality”, things seem perfect until they are ultimately revealed as completely the opposite. Essentially, the first major lesson I learned is that people can create a completely unrealistic reality for their situation, and then continue to act out this situation – to a certain extent. As seen by the Keller family, they can only act like things are “okay” to a certain extent before true feelings reveal themselves. I know this happens in everyday life across the country, and it is an extremely relatable lesson to be learned from All My Sons. There are other small lessons to be learned from this play as well. The other small lessons include; do not lie, do not cheat (involving