Restructuring Arthur Miller's three plays through multiple intelligences activities

This thesis aims at exploring the theoretical background of MultipleIntelligences and tracing the genre of drama, from Aristotle to Arthur Miller. Threeplays by Arthur Miller have been tackled through New Criticism and MultipleIntelligence activities have been adopted to highlight the plot summaries, characters,settings, themes, motifs and symbols. Within the framework of MultipleIntelligences, the following questions have been kept in mind:1. In what ways drama activities and multiple intelligence activities can becombined to teach a play?2. Are these activities appropriate for all kinds of students?3. Which activities work well with students with verbal-linguistic intelligence?4. Which activities work well with students with logical-mathematicalintelligence?5. Which activities work well with students with visual-spatial intelligence?6. Which activities work well with students with bodily-kinestheticintelligence?7. Which activities work well with students with musical-rhythmicintelligence?8. Which activities work well with students with interpersonal intelligence?9. Which activities work well with students with intrapersonal intelligence?10. Which activities work well with students with naturalist intelligence?Teachers should remember that each person possesses all eightintelligences. People can develop each intelligence to a sufficient level ofcompetency. They should not forget that intelligences work together in complexways and there are many different ways to be intelligent within each category.