The Glass Coffin

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…

Performed in 1956, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s tragicomedy, The Visit, fixates on a poverty-stricken town, Güllen, in need of financial salvation. When that comes in the form of Claire Zacchanassian, a previous resident of the town, the town is saved. However, Claire comes to Güllen demanding justice and her money allows herself to command the town to her will. Claire associates her end goal with justice as well as vengeance. In the case of The Visit, Claire Zacchanassian's notions of vengeance and…

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…

1964 The Glass Ceiling is defined as “an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities.” (google.com) although, referencing glass, this barrier is transparent. This transparency creates the illusion that American women, regardless of race or other factors, hold economic and professional equality to men. However, statistics shall prove this is not the current, and past trend in the United States of America. Systematic glass…

Director D.W. Griffith employs a variety of innovative filmmaking techniques, under the categories of mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing, to tell his narrative in Death’s Marathon. I will focus on a few techniques that stood out to me as essential stylistic decisions that progressed the narrative. Firstly, the costumes and how they distinguished between characters, and events; secondly, the blocking and character movements and how they expressed emotion; thirdly, the lighting and how it…

differently? Or does the communication style make men and women to decode the response differently? In what follows we will discuss the different ideas of the different communication styles given by Tannen in her book, metamesages, and the problem with glass ceiling. Tannen’s Ideas One of the most important ideas from Tannen’s chapter is asymmetry vs symmetry.…

only two singers remain, both showing impeccable singing talents, where the audience is faced with a difficult decision of who they want to win. Just as the audience is faced with the decision to choose a winner, in Tennessee William’s play, The Glass Menagerie, the three central characters all exhibit elaborate characteristics, making each one of them eligible for the protagonist role. Laura Wingfield, the youngest of the family and influence for the name of the play’s title, develops…

a heated argument that ends in the shattering of a part of Laura's glass menagerie. During their fight, Tom expresses his unhappiness with his life and his desire to start a new one for himself. Nonetheless, Tom can not leave due to his emotional ties to Laura. He does not know how to go and find his happiness without hurting her. As the fight comes to a conclusion, Tom storms out of the room, accidentally smashing Laura's glass collection in the process. Instantly, “Laura cries out as if…

In the play by Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie”, the character of Laura Wingfield does not have a lot of self confidence due to a small physical disability. One of her legs is shorter than the other and she’s forced to wear a brace and she feels judged and different from other people causing her to be extremely shy. She gets advice towards the end of the play that she needs to believe in herself more which really helped emphasize the theme of being confident in yourself and not…

A Southern Belle Imagined It’s been said that Tennessee Williams was very well known for the complexity of his characters in his writings. The Glass Menagerie is an intricate example of the effort that Williams puts into bringing his characters to life. Amanda Wingfield is a perfect example of Williams’s complexity. Amanda has a psychological battle within herself. Once a Southern Belle in her youth, Amanda refuses to see the realism of what her life has become. She constantly badgers at her son…