Critical Analysis Of Elinor Furgen's Visit To A Small Planet

Elinor Fuchs is a university professor whose work has revolved around the analysis of theater and comprehension of the world inside a play. She released an article with the intention of helping her readers create a better analysis of whichever play in hand by creating a series of questions that removes the reader from looking inside the world of the play into the outside. Questions such as “What changes in this world?” (Fuchs, p.7) help place the reader from the first page to the last sentence in order to understand what happened from an outside perspective. On the other hand, she also makes her reader analyze with her question “what has this world demanded of me?” (Fuchs, p.9). She writes this so that the reader understands that the play should not just stay within its own world and that is should roam freely within time by staying inside the reader’s mind, this way it adds its own grain of sand into our world. Most importantly, she wrote it to “…light up some of the dark matter in dramatic worlds, to illuminate the potentialities…” (Fuchs, p.5). Visit to a Small Planet helps further analyze complex plays such as Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth. Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright and screenwriter who is best known for his …show more content…
(Fuchs, p.7). Lonergan uses real, human characters to act as a type of mirror to the audience so that his spectator asks themselves Fuchs’ question “…what has this world demanded of me?... Does it ask me to reason?”. The play is about three teenagers who have started to realize that they are at a point in life where they are obligated by circumstance to grow up, it revolves around loosing love, feeling powerless to society, or even feeling unimportant in somebody else’s eyes. Most importantly, it’s about how these characters overcome these feelings in order to become better