An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie Dysfunctional families are common to films‚ novels and plays. They contain the drama and escape that people search for in entertainment. In Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie‚ the author explores the memory of Tom Wingfield‚ investigating the family dynamic with the absence of a father figure‚ the presence of an overbearing matriarch and the constant need by each family member to find an escape. Amanda Wingfield is the matriarch of the Wingfield household
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Reality VS Fantasy In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the motif of reality vs fantasy is used alot throughout the play. The fantasy part of this motif can be seen especially through Blanche‚ one of the characters. Blanche believes she is a young‚ beautiful and intelligent women but in reality she is not. Another fantasy seen in the play can be seen through the other characters because they hide from reality by acting as if some events did not happen. When the men would
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Tom abandoned his family in order to pursue his own future. The play is centered around the theme of family starting with the father of Laura and Tom abandoning the family when they were just children and finally Tom’s selfish abandonment of his family who is entirely dependent on him. In The Glass Menagerie‚ family means obligations. This play raises questions of duty and responsibility to your other family members‚ and for the most part in gender specific
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Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie Symbolism plays a fundamental part in Tennessee Williams’s play‚ “The Glass Menagerie”. Examples of the use of symbolism include the fire escape‚ as an escape from the family‚ the phonograph‚ as an escape from reality‚ the unicorn‚ as a symbol for Laura’s uniqueness and the father’s photograph‚ representing something different to each character. Through recognition of these symbols‚ a greater understanding of the play’s theme is achieved. Throughout
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mutual reading of the harmonious tribal family. The different generations of past and present times would also have many contrasting views on particular characters such as Worru. Additionally‚ the study of past texts‚ such as The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Coonardoo by Katherine Suzanne Prichard‚ allows me to comprehend the meaning behind the symbol of alcohol in The Dreamers and how it is a representation of escapism for people in degrading ways of society. In the beginning of The
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short excerpt "Over the Rocks and Stones" by Chantal Kreviazuk. The Author describes how she value the hardships and fears she experienced and realizes that these experiences have made her who she is. Also in the play "The Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams‚ the protagonist dealt with these hardships in a destructive and negative manner which she used to put emphasis on her desire to cleanse herself. In personal response to the topic there have been difficult experiences faced that enables
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"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama the purest language of plays." Once‚ quoted as having said this‚ Tennessee Williams has certainly used symbolism and colour extremely effectively in his play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire’. A moving story about fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her lapse into insanity‚ A Streetcar Named Desire’ contains much symbolism and clever use of colour. This helps the audience to link certain scenes and events to the themes and issues that Williams
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Tennessee Williams exploits the expressionistic uses of space in the drama‚ attempting to represent desire from the outside‚ that is‚ in its formal challenge to realistic stability and closure‚ and in its exposure to risk. Loosening both stage and verbal languages from their implicit desire for closure and containment‚ Streetcar exposes the danger and the violence of this desire‚ which is always the desire for the end of desire. Writing in a period when U.S. drama was becoming disillusioned
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that remained. The plays were freer and less dependent upon the techniques of a “well made play.” They had a large number of scenes with fewer divisions into acts and they began to experiment with dramatic technique. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ the characters are quite vivid; yet‚ there is a sense that none of it is really real. The characters in these plays seem to be out of touch with reality. The plays are “memory plays” where the
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