When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.

Years later in a 1994 interview with Ron Rifkin Miller said that most contemporary critics regarded All My Sons as "a very depressing play in a time of great optimism" and that positive reviews from Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times had saved it from failure. Steven R Centola ed. During this period Miller wrote the penetrating family drama The Price produced in 1968.

In 2002 he received the Prince of Asturias Award and in 2003 the Jerusalem Prize. Arthur AArthur Millerr Miller (October 17 1915 – February 10 2005) was an American playwright and essayist.