The Glass Castle

water from the roof. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the demand for illustrated books that included psalms, gospels, and other parts of the liturgy grew steadily during this time manuscript illumination showed the influence of stained glass art. In the years that followed, painters began to become more interested in realistic detail in their works and the desire to paint their figures more graceful and…

writing. On March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned Williams his first Pulitzer Prize. Many of Williams' plays have been adapted to film starring screen greats like Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. Williams died in 1983. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as pleasant…

Sacred geometry connects natural patterns, designs, and structures to an overall sacred origin. This inseparable relationship between complex solidified values and generalized faithful concepts appears to be the unlikeliest duo. This mysterious relationship proved to be a huge attraction to many mathematicians, including Plato, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Kepler. However mathematicians today continue to seek evidence that complies with Plato’s cosmology, and “theory of…

transcendence is invoked. Elaborate ribbed vaulted ceilings instill a sense of awe, wonder, and obedience to the divine order. The warmth of God’s divine light illuminates the stone vaults and decorated domes of the cathedrals as it pours through stain glass windows. The aesthetically pleasing bare bones are purposely left apparent in the construction of Gothic style buildings. Additionally, in the comprising of clustered columns, pointed ribbed vaults and flying buttresses, the Gothic style…

are 349 feet long. Another thing to note about the building is that it has three entrances that are extremely decorated and ornamented (“Sacred”). Something that was interesting and unique about the Chartes Cathedral is that it contained 176 stained-glass windows, a major feature for which it is best known. On the inside of the building one can see an immense amount of sculptures, size small and big. Not only were they used to express beauty to the cathedral but they were also used to depict…

A metaphor I find interesting and vivid in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is portrayed in, “[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at” (Wharton, 54). In this quote, Wharton used the gilt cage as a metaphor for the social trap created by New York City’s high society. The novel was set in the Gilded Age, an era in which the…

The Glass Menagerie St. Louis, Missouri, was not the brightest place to be, in 1937. The Glass Menagerie, helps understand the life during the Great Depression and the economical problems that occurs in both the novel and in real life. The Glass Menagerie divulges the standards that the population dreams to have. Laura Wingfield does not meet the standards and is affected severely, vanishing her faith. When most of Laura’s hope and faith were gone the broken unicorn came into action. The…

reality format due to the dream-like era that was the roaring 20’s. The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is the perfect example of realistically showing how people lived during the time of The Great Depression. Not only does this play about Tom’s memories elucidate the time period, but also how him, his mother, and his sister have gone forth with their father withdrawn from their lives. Before The Glass Menagerie, plays were consisted mostly of kings, queens, and the rich, however,…

Glass is very fragile and easily broken, and so is the Wingfield family. Everyone in the Wingfield family gets their fragility shown in some parts of The Glass Menagerie. When Laura’s fragility is shown, a piece of her glass gets broken. Laura’s glass not only represents her fragility, but the fragility of her family. At the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, Tom and Amanda were arguing which led to Tom exiting angrily slamming the door which made one of Laura’s pieces of glass break. Tom leaving…

the work ladder, and how female nurses resent men for this. In certain job profession, women encounter the glass ceiling which prohibits them for getting a higher position, however, men have the glass escalator which escalates them into higher positions. In this case, men in the nursing profession have the opportunity to use the glass escalator to propel them into better jobs. But the glass escalator is a double sided blade, according to McMurry, men sometimes feel pressure to move up in the job…