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    the glass menagerie Rationale The following task will be written in a formal letter format. The writer will be Tennessee Williams and he will propose to Wendell Mayfield for him to direct his play along Mayfield’s crew. Tennessee Williams will refer to the theatrical techniques in his play. The task is also related to the play studied in class because it takes the themes studied‚ and develops them through a formal letter proposing the direction of Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie . The

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    “The Glass Menagerie” by the famous American playwright Tennessee Williams is well-known for its lyrical tone and poetic power. The play is about love and understanding‚ inner isolation and desire to escape‚ when the main characters have their own paths to follow. Tennessee Williams depicts a true-to-life picture of the family survival with their mutual care and tenderness‚ but at the same time pressure and home violence. The events are presented by one of the main characters‚ Tom Wingfield‚ who

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    Enmeshed. Low self-esteem. Personal struggles of the twenty-first century or those of the past? In his play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams portrays a southern family of the 1940’s attempting to cope with life’s pressures‚ and each of their own conflicts‚ after they have been deserted by their father and husband. In attempting to create a modern-day movie adaptation of The Glass Menagerie from the original play‚ a parallel element would still be conveyed to the audience- inner and intra personal

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    Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie uses an extensive pattern of symbolism that describes the characters of Tom‚Amanda‚Laura and Jim.Glass‚light‚color and music constitute the substance of the dominant symbols and motifs‚serving to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of the play.Tennessee Williams wrote the play so that each character had a special symbol which resembled their personality.But he didn’t only give the characters of the play a a resembling

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    their own reality. In Tennessee William’s play The Glass Menagerie‚ each member of Wingfield family refuse to accepting their realities by set themselves in the fantasy world that they had created to avoid the reality. Sadly‚ no matter how hard they try to escape‚ in the end‚ they still had to face the cruel‚ brutal world they had try to escape in a long time. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda escape the reality by went into the world of memories and dream. She refused to accept the way things are and constant

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    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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    A person’s path to enlightenment and understanding can be tumultuous and challenging. In the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ each character has difficulty accepting reality. This makes them withdraw into their own little world of illusion to find a sense comfort and peace. In The Glass Menagerie‚ the author presents The Glass Menagerie as a metaphor for the Wingfield family along with other families during the Great Depression. In the setting of the Wingfield‚ family homeland might

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    Similarities of Two Tales “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Raisin in the Sun” are about families with different backgrounds and are placed in different eras of American history. In “A Raisin in the Sun‚” an African-American family struggles with keeping faith with their dreams and remaining optimistic. “The Glass Menagerie‚” parallels to “A Raisin in the Sun‚” with the family being Caucasian-American‚ struggling also to survive and to climb towards a better future. Despite the two families differences

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    Shannon Miller Prof Luciano 11 April 2013 Comp 111 Amanda Wingfield: A Woman of the Past The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play about a family filled with characters who view time and their lives very differently. Tom lives his life very much in the present while his sister Laura lives her life barely at all. Then‚ there is their mother Amanda. Amanda almost lives her life I denial‚ not as much as Laura though of course. She perceives time in a unique way by never actually living

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    Tom of the Glass Menagerie Intro to Theatre Tom Wingfield was a very interesting character who had to live between the very conventional and materialistic worlds that he knew. The job that he held at the shoe warehouse was difficult for him to reconcile to himself as he knew that he was living contrary to what his heart was telling him. He‚ unlike his sister and mother‚ was a very free spirit. This spirit was stifled in order for him to continue to work in what was a dead end job

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