Gwen's Symbolism In Away

Within the play Away, it is evident that the symbolism of ‘keys’ dramatically places the audience to witness the characters frame of mind and thus allows for the greater discovery to be developed about the individual, Gwen. The vanished keys symbolically represents that there is a hypothetical door that is “locked”, thus, the characters are unable to open the new journey by themselves, but rather make the catastrophic discovery that they will need to compromise and re-asses their perspectives and values, whilst gaining trust and deeper relationships with others. Gwen; frantically searching for the keys “no. no. no. no. no…. I haven’t come across any keys yet”. This significantly expresses Gwen’s lack of appeal of discovery, however, positions