The Final Passage and Glass Menagerie
How does characters escape affect the others
The theme of Escapsism is evident in both 'The Final Passage' and 'The Glass Menagerie'.Each chacter has their own way of running away from their troubles which can and does affect the people around them.
In 'The Glass Menagerie', Tennessee Williams mainly promotes escaping through the protagnist Tom Wingfield, who works in a warehouse he chafes under the banality and bordem of everyday life his way to break away, from his resonsiblity to his household and his mundane job he comapares his desire to leave to his father saying 'I'd be where he is-GONE!', he goes to the 'movies' all hours of the night as seen in an argument in Scene 2 between Amanda and Tom to escape from it he says 'I'm going to the movies' After which in his anger he breaks part of his sister's precious Glass menagerie which she 'cries out if wounded'.
Tom goes onto the fire escape to smoke anticpating his eventual getaway at the moment only getway from the dysfunction
Tom deeply wishes to escape from life just like the magacian he goes to see in Scene 4 who 'He got out of the coffin without moving one nail...There's a trick that would come handy for me' meaning he his coffin is Amanda and Laura and he wants to leave with out damaging. As the 'provider' of the household it is clear they cannot function without his income; in the end when Tom does 'escape' he does so at a price, leaving Amanda to look after and cater for Laura fincially while Laura must deal with her mothers pressures alone. His own repirieve affects him mentally and he soon concludes that his freedom has come at a terrible prince which is relfeclected in his guilt ' Oh, Laura,Laura, I tried to leave you, but I am more faithful than I intended to be', in the end he has abadoned them just like his father before leaving his looming memory of his family. This lasting affect of his absenence leaves Amanda and Laura to be repeatedly doomed and abadoned
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The theme of Escapsism is evident in both 'The Final Passage' and 'The Glass Menagerie'.Each chacter has their own way of running away from their troubles which can and does affect the people around them.
In 'The Glass Menagerie', Tennessee Williams mainly promotes escaping through the protagnist Tom Wingfield, who works in a warehouse he chafes under the banality and bordem of everyday life his way to break away, from his resonsiblity to his household and his mundane job he comapares his desire to leave to his father saying 'I'd be where he is-GONE!', he goes to the 'movies' all hours of the night as seen in an argument in Scene 2 between Amanda and Tom to escape from it he says 'I'm going to the movies' After which in his anger he breaks part of his sister's precious Glass menagerie which she 'cries out if wounded'.
Tom goes onto the fire escape to smoke anticpating his eventual getaway at the moment only getway from the dysfunction
Tom deeply wishes to escape from life just like the magacian he goes to see in Scene 4 who 'He got out of the coffin without moving one nail...There's a trick that would come handy for me' meaning he his coffin is Amanda and Laura and he wants to leave with out damaging. As the 'provider' of the household it is clear they cannot function without his income; in the end when Tom does 'escape' he does so at a price, leaving Amanda to look after and cater for Laura fincially while Laura must deal with her mothers pressures alone. His own repirieve affects him mentally and he soon concludes that his freedom has come at a terrible prince which is relfeclected in his guilt ' Oh, Laura,Laura, I tried to leave you, but I am more faithful than I intended to be', in the end he has abadoned them just like his father before leaving his looming memory of his family. This lasting affect of his absenence leaves Amanda and Laura to be repeatedly doomed and abadoned
laura
She is emotional and