Tennessee Williams

When people don’t like the situation they’re in, their first instinct is to escape it. In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Tom Wingfield narrates the memory of a time when he worked or ran off to the movies, and when Amanda, his mother, was on a desperate hunt for a gentleman caller for his sister, Laura. While Tom struggles with his insatiable need for a change in life, his mom clings to the chance of reliving her convivial past through her daughter. Amanda escapes the present…

In Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams focuses on the hardships in the daily life of a wealthy Southern family. Like realism, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof does not depict the perfect lifestyles of American Citizens rather the harsh reality that ordinary people face everyday. Up, alone in their room Brick lies on the bed resting his broken ankle while Margaret paces around the room. After listening to the screams of the no neck monsters and their mom, Mae, Margaret is on edge. Worried…

“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is an example of a classic tragedy. However, the characters in the drama do not encounter death. The characters encounter family instability, abandonment, and resentment. The title of this drama accurately represents these characters. Amanda, the mother of family, refers to her daughter Laura’s collection of glass figurines as a glass menagerie. This means her collection acts as a glass zoo filled with animal figurines. Yet, “The Glass Menagerie” could…

The glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play that tells part of a man’s life named Tom Wingfield it takes place in St. Louis. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and older sister, Laura. Tom and Laura’s father left years ago and he is only slightly mentioned in the play. Tom is the man of the house since his father left he is the only one with a job and the family one hundred percent relies on him for the income and to pay any bill. He wants to leave and go travel…

Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” reflects reality as the jealousy between siblings affects their relationship. Everyone who grew up with a brother or sister understands how competitive it can be to the ascendant child. Whether it’s having better grades in school or the better life, an argument will arise. Furthermore, the sisters of A Streetcar Named Desire portray the actuality between siblings offset. When Blanche arrives to visit her sister Stella and her husband Stanley for…

Different people will turn to different sports, instruments, or other hobbies to in a sense get away from the world and isolate themselves. This often happens when someone is put in a difficult situation or they need to make a tough decision. In Tennessee Williams’ play, The Glass Menagerie, characterization and symbols are used to show how each individual escapes. Amanda, played by Katharine Hepburn, uses her past to escape, constantly telling her children about the life she used to have and…

plays time, place and atmosphere are critical to conveying the playwright’s perspective on a particular topic. The particular topic that is focused on in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is modern progressivism. This was a particularly edgy topic to speak on especially for the time period coming out of World War II. Tennessee Williams utilizes three key elements of time, place, and atmosphere to convey his view of modern progressivism. The time period of the mid 1940’s gives…

Death of A Salesman, written by Arthur Miller in 1949, follows an aged salesman, Willy Loman, as he struggles to accept the reality of his failing career and misguided life principles. In this essay, I will examine the structure of the play and how Miller has used time and space to reveal character, present Willy’s faulty ideals, and foreshadow. The play is broken into two acts and a requiem: each segment takes place on a different day in the present day, within the world of the play. For the…

Amelie’s Wish In one of the last scenes of Amelie the director conveys Amelie’s internal struggles about accepting or rejecting her feelings for Nino through music and camera movements. The scene begins with the soft playing of piano that is quickly buried under rain -which is imagined by Amelie- but grows as her imagination of Nino purchasing yeast for her continues. The piano reaches its highest point just before her doorbell’s harsh ringing and is abruptly cut off. The softness of the music…

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…