Regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts." (Williams, Scene 7, pg
1461 "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" asks Tennessee Williams in the opening screen of The Glass Menagerie (401), quoting a poem by Francis Villon. Williams explains in the production notes to this famous play that he has left in the manuscript a device omitted from the "acting version" of the play (Williams 395), a series of messages projected on screens, some verbal, some pictorial, that prompt and reflect the action on stage
1461 "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" asks Tennessee Williams in the opening screen of The Glass Menagerie (401), quoting a poem by Francis Villon. Williams explains in the production notes to this famous play that he has left in the manuscript a device omitted from the "acting version" of the play (Williams 395), a series of messages projected on screens, some verbal, some pictorial, that prompt and reflect the action on stage
In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles creates Oedipus as a great person who has inner strength and the willingness to stick to what he believes is true. But Oedipus is not a great person in terms of his worldly position; rather, his "worldly position in an illusion, which will vanish like a dream" (Bloom, 2009)
This paper will present some instances and passages in which these writers employ illusion in their work. Sophocles' and Illusion Interestingly, author Joe Park Poe notes in his book (Heroism and Divine Justice in Sophocles' Philoctetes) that in the plays Antigone and Philoctetes, "The common quality…might be inadequately described as a lack of illusion" (Poe, 1974, p
Meanwhile author Mark Ringer disputes Poe's assertions in Ringer's book, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles. According to Ringer, Sophocles' Theban Plays are "flickering 'in and out' of illusion" and the playwright understands that drama "deals in illusion, in the creative tension of one person or object" that represents something other than what is apparent (Ringer, 1998, p
Williams Tennessee Williams The work of Tennessee Williams has been described as "…the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (Haley)
Themes of mental illness, paternal abandonment, and the breakdown of traditional Southern social norms pervade the play. Using rich symbolism and metaphor, Williams crafts a semi-autobiographical "memory play," (Durham p
Amanda Wingfield is perhaps the most psychologically disturbed of the entire family although this is not obvious at first glance. The woman is psychologically trapped by the past and all her actions are designed to recapture a long ago moment (Bluefarb)
There is no one reason why these three people do not get along well together but rather there are many things in their family life which negatively contributes to the psychology of these three characters. Paramount in these factors is the money problems which plague the Wingfields (Hammer)
Time is extremely important to Tom's character and to understanding what is important to him. This is evident in the fact that Tom narrates The Glass Menagerie from some indistinct period in the future (King)
Despite her many disabilities, Laura is in a way the most honest character in the piece. This is not accidental as it is a trademark of Tennessee Williams's plays to have the least mentally stable character portray the secret truth of the dynamic being depicted in the play's plot (O'Connor 11)
Many families are like the Wingfields, highly dysfunctional and also highly destructive even though they are supposed to be supportive of one another. This is a truth that few were willing to admit in the middle of the twentieth century (Scanlon)
It was during that year he wrote a play and actually saw it performed on the stage and witnessed the audience's reaction to it. From that moment on, he decided "decided that writing would be his career" (Johns) writes Johns
Dreams are the theme of the poem as the poet asks what happens to a man when he is prevented from reaching his dream. Niemi claims the poem is "justly revered as Hughes's most powerful poem of social protest" (Niemi 415)
He became a champion for human rights and during the Harlem Renaissance, his voice could not have been more welcome. Hughes was a powerful writer in Harlem and was even referred to as the "bard of Harlem" (Schmidt 707)
We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will" (Faulkner)
She remembers, "One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain, your mother received seventeen gentlemen callers! Why, sometimes there weren't chairs enough to accommodate them all. We had to send the nigger over to bring in folding chairs from the parish house" (Williams)
Tom cannot forget Laura, but he leaves just the same, and it seems he never returns. In fact, some critics "blame" Tom for leaving Laura persistently a virgin and always alone (Adler 39)
When this fails, she rallies for the valiant but hopeless attempt to marry the girl off. This second failure, we feel, is less tragic for the daughter than for the mother" (Bloom 35)