Innovation in Language Learning

In the world of depression, where meaning either vanishes or proliferates beyond understanding; undoubtedly, drama plays a vital role in such milieu. It is the only device, by which the characters can hope to know or control the world outside them. In 1930s, was evoking the turbulent where American Depression spread out; there was also class distinction in that time. Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty is probably one of the best-known plays where he neatly summarizes his belief in the sanctity of workers and their right to fair employment. He dealt with the disintegration of a middle class family caused by the depression. Odets’ works are the outcome of American Depression. With its leftist philosophy and realistic conflicts, this play depicts the search by working class characters for a place in modern society. This article is an attempt to show how the view of Marxism influenced the play and how the characters were depressed by the capitalism day by day in that time. I will examine how they suffer from depression by their capitalist from Marxist point of view. I will also explain how the American Depression is reflected in the writings of Clifford Odets, replicating the experience of Americans in the time in which the playwright is living. This paper will also demonstrate that the working class of the world would feel an urge to rise up in order to fight for their better living step by step since Odets’ plays speak to a deeper level of the audience’s mind.