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Sonnet on Truce

When forty thieves despatched and ruined are
By one disarming woman, guilelessly, 
Stop marching up and down and near and far;
Ten thousand of you are no match for me. 
Your every move anticipated long
Have I, and watched as everybody burns;
Your every urge to harm and do me wrong
Reversed have I, and back upon you turns. 

Comes overweening pride before a fall, 
After the fall comes guilt and grim regret,
And lifelong grief that suffocates you all,
What you justly deserve is what you get;
Instead of dumbly playing tit-for-tat,
Be nice to me, and see what comes of that. 


© Sara Nicola Ruth 

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After the Fall (1964) is one of Arthur Miller‘s more personal plays, a thinly veiled personal critique of his divorce from Marilyn Monroe.

The play has been roundly criticised for being too similar to Miller’s actual life because Maggie’s suicide is similar to the overdose death of Monroe. Sarah Bradford, in her biography America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, says:

“Jackie, who had admired Arthur Miller enough to seat him at her table at the Malraux dinner, turned on him for his betrayal of Marilyn in his play After the Fall, which opened in New York on January 23, 1964. For [Jackie Kennedy] loyalty was the ultimate test of character, and in portraying Marilyn as a self-destructive slut whom he had abandoned for her own good, Miller had dismally failed it.”

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