Thornton Wilder

Playwright Thornton Wilder and poet e. e. cummings are portraying ordinary life in a small town in the play Our Town and in the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Both, the play and poem were written about at the same period. The towns in both the play and poem can be related to any city in the country. The poem and play take the readers through the similar themes of the passage of time, love, and death, which are an ordinary life that is monotonous and ultimately unmemorable. Both…

Thornton Wilder is one of the most inventive playwrights of all time. His creative vision and exceptional imagination led to such classics as his most notable drama, Our Town. Throughout this drama, Wilder’s unusual use of the Stage Manager allows Him to become one of the most famous roles of all time. Although his identity is unknown and he appears to be insignificant to the plot of the story, the Stage Manager’s role is the most important in the entire play (Galens 226). It may seem like he…

In Our Town, Thornton Wilder incorporates a rather unique character known as the Stage Manager, who takes the form of a narrator that converses with onlookers, to guide his audience throughout the play. Stage Manager acts as a reporter similar to the role played by Choragus in Greek dramas, which helps in leading the spectators into the heart of the story. For instance, much like Choragus, the Stage Manager stands out in comparison to the other characters within the production because he informs…

humanism is John Milton’s Paradise Lost, it deals with the dignity of man, his freedom of choice and internal struggles. In the book Shipwreck, Erasmus satirized religious practices. Even though these books have good examples of what humanism is, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town has an abundant amount of examples of humanism throughout the play. In Wilder’s plays, Our Town he loves celebrating the human love and value. Our Town is a play about a town called Grover’s Corner, the town is a friendly…

Life is like a routine. People focus on getting the job done or just watching television every day at the same time. People do not pay attention to the little things that are worth a lot when it is gone. Our Town written by Thornton Wilder is about George Gibbs and Emily Webb life divided up into three acts. In the Acts was about George and Emily relationship as a kid in school to getting married and last but not least Emily dying from childbirth. Appreciate the little things and live in the…

The main similarity between E. E. Cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is the passage of time. An author reviewing the poem in “Poetry for Students” remarks, “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes.” Both the poem and the play use changes in the seasons and weather to express the passing of time. Each text focuses on how time…

Our Town and Blindness appear very distinct, the author's purpose behind specific scenes are very parallel in their subject and allow for the significance behind each to compliment the other. The three-act play Our Town written by playwright Thornton Wilder follows the lives of ordinary citizens in the small town of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire during the early twentieth century. The play is divided into three acts, each involving an aspect of every life: daily life, love and marriage, and…

The Westport Country Playhouse production of Our Town Written by Thornton Wilder proves to be a rather interesting telling of life. The plot is hard to understand at first, in fact it is rather confusing and the long explanations from the narrator slow the pace of the show. However, through rather excellent acting and stage production the meaning of the story emerges to surprise. The production begins simply. Stagehands are moving set pieces around and an older gentleman appears to be…

John Knowles: Life and A Separate Peace John Knowles was born September 16, 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia. His first published novel, A Separate Peace, was published in 1959 in England (John). The story is based on Knowles’ experience at Phillips Exeter Academy, but is not literally true. Knowles states that his life work is writing. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school in New Hampshire. As a sixteen-year-old boy, he began attending the academy as a summer session…

serving a master or a pack; even as a leader he is carrying out someone else’s commands and is responsible for the well-being of the group. In many ways, then, when John Thornton cuts Buck free from his harness, he is also beginning the process of Buck’s separation from a pack mentality. Although Buck continues to serve Thornton, his yearnings for a solitary life in the wild eventually overcome…