Post by moonlightgranger on Nov 18, 2007 2:39:42 GMT -5
This is a play annalysis I wrote for drama. It's about the Glass Menagerie and it's author!
Play Analysis
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
A man who had accomplished many deeds in the lifetime he is surely not a simple man, who has a creative mind and surely their life was not waisted. Often they are not born in luxurious environments everyone hugging and kissing them lovingly. There happens to be a man born on twenty-sixth of march in 1911 that fits this description well. He lived a valuable life and had a tremendously big inpact in the society. He was very famous, lived a life that deserve full marks, and died on the twenty-fith of February in 1983 in a hotel. He was neither Shakespeare nor Tolkien, but was the successful play writer Thomas Lanier William, who is more commonly known as Tennessee Williams. This name was given to him by a college schoolmate, because of the southern accent he possessed, and his father was from Tennessee. Thus, he gets the name Tennessee and his last name is Williams.
In the william's family their was three children, a mother, and a father. Tennessee William had a sister named Rose, a brother named Dakin, a mother name Edwina, and a father named Cornelius. His father was abusive" and works as executive for a shoe company requiring him to be away from his family quite a bit. He favored Dakin William over thomas. His mother was quite moody and was a southern bell. Mr. Williams always had a hard time with his family, which inspired most of his stories, plays, or poems. The family moved many a times to different areas.
He was rather close to his sister Rose who had schizophrenia and spent her adulthood in mental hospitals. It got worse with treatments. She was sent to Washington for a prefrontal lobotomy treatment and she was left incapacitated as a result of a bad surgery, which Mr. Williams was rather angry about and never forgave his parents for permitting the treatment to be done. People suspected the angr'y state of Mr. Tennessee Williams caused him to look in to drinking. He was an addict to alcohol for the rest of his life. Over all he was depressed rather much, and in the years 1950 to 1960 he was in a continuous depression for ten years, because his best mate died. Appreciation for him was not given by all the people, but some of them loathed his styles, and critiques was harsh and unwelcoming to his ears, because they hated the McCarthyism he used and the fact that he was homosexual. He matured in his writing because after that it was more experimental. In 1969 he was hospitalized for' one year. The poet that was a huge influence in William's life was Hart Crane, and he had a desire to be burried next to him, but that never was true. When he died people suspected that someone murdered him, but there was prove he could of killed himself by way of drugs and alcohol. His hotel room had half drunken bottles of alcohol and many bottles of pills left.
He was seventy-two when he died in a hotel room choking on a bottle cap. The hotel room was not spotlessly innocent, but instead it was quite the opposite. It was hotel elysee where he had died. Tennessee Williams had his funeral at a catholic church, and was burried at the Calvary cemetery in St. Louis Misouri. His fortune was given to the Litterary Rights Suewanee in the south and was funding it's programs, which was all in honor of his grandfather Walter Dakins.
Mr. Thomas William was born in his grandfather's home in Columbus Mississippi. In 1914 at the age of three his family move to Clarksdale. In 1918 at the age of seven his family moved to St. Louis Misouri. At five he got diphtheria, which paralysed him for three years, so meanwhile he couldn't do anything. He was encourage to challenge and strain his imagination, so his life wasn't to be waisted. He got a typewriter at the age of 13, starting to write with it. Thus, with a few years of hardworking spirits and determined work, he won third place in a writing contest at age sixteen. That resulted in him receiveing five dollars as a prize.
He went to three universities in the 1930S. The first one he went to was in Misouri, university in Washington was his second university he went to for just a year, and finally in 1938 he went to Iowa State University where he got his degree. He worked in several places first for a while in his father's shoe factory. Some other jobs he work for were waiter, elevator operator, and theater usher.
In 1935 his first play was performed. He was going to write for the WPA, so he lived in Louisiana's French quarters in 1939. In his entire life he wrote poems, plays, short stories, novelas, and Novels. He won four Pulitzer Prize For Drama awards and two New York Critics Circle awards. He won the Tony Award for the Rose Tatoo.
This play is in the poor era of the 1930S when everyone wasn't gay and merry. It was the great depression and everybody was poor and was in loads of debts. Especially in the south where they lived in St. Louis misouri. The people went hungry, the job opportunities were slim, food were scarce, and money was definitely a big issue. They lived in an apartment building'. Their only entrance and exit was by the fire escape.
There is a slanty ramp going up to look like the fire escape at the front of the stage outside the house. The brown thick curtains hangs down and there is a flap for the door. To the left of the curtain is a empty area with a couple of chair set out, which is the patio area. Inside the door is a diningroom with the kitchen to the side. There is a shiny tall square table and it has three light brown chairs.
In the kitchen there is one counter, the sink in the middle, and cupboards along the sides. The stove, oven, and microwave is on one side. Farther in, lays the living room on one side there is a black couch, and on it their is some comfortable looking pillows. To the right of the couch is a small golden table with a small pink telephone. On the left of the couch there is a room with a bed and a brown shelf. Next to that room there's another room with a bed and a black desk.
At the other end of the living room there's another room, and this one is much bigger. This room contains a big bed and beside it there's a small white desk and yellowing shelves. The first room is magenta, and so is the third room. In the second room one side is pink and one side is blue. The house and the patio takes up three quarters of the space. The rest is just empty space.
The protagonists of this story are Laura, Tom, and Jim. Laura is the main character and she is cripled. Laura fears the world, shy, withdrawn, reserved, timid, nervous, has low self esteem, frightened easily, and weak. Tom is Laura's brother, and works at a warehouse. He's also the one supporting the family but he drinks. Tom is caring, rebellious, adventurous, brave, and rather short tempered. Jim is a coworker and friend of tom's. He works at the warehouse as well, and is going to night school. Jim is kind, encouraging, energetic, loving, apologetic, polite, has high self esteem, funny, up beat, and fair. The antagonist is Amanda and she is the mother of the main character. She takes care of the house, and Laura. Amanda is short tempered, moody, caring, talkative, outspoken, energetic, helpful, worried, loving, aggressive, and is rather a criticizer.
The preliminary situation is the first dinner sceen which introduces the characters, what they are like, and there backgrounds. Amanda's background is revealed and so is her traits. She is introduced as caring, talkative, and moody. Tom is introduced as rebellious. Laura is introduced as shy, cripled, and dependent. Their place of residence in an apartment is revealed.
One day Laura had returned from whereever she went pretending she had gone to business' college. Her mother had gone to her school to check up on her progress and found out she hasn't been going. She was furious at Laura, because she dropped out. Laura told her mother that she has been out walking around. That's the initial sceen.
Tom and Amanda had a fight, because Amanda wanted to know where he goes every night. He wouldn't tell her, and his only reply was out to the movies. He goes and gets drunk. Laura let him in one night and found him drunk. She assisted him on to the couch and covers him with a blanket. Tom apologizes unwillingly to his mother, because of the fight the previous day.
Amanda insisted that he find a boy for Laura to marry.
Tom announces that he found a guy sometime later, and tells his mother that he's coming over the next night. Amanda freaks out worrying, because she wants everything perfect.
She gets laura ready and Laura finds out it is Jim. It was her high school sweetheart that she loved so dearly, but who didn't love her back, so she didn't want to be at the table with him. Her mother insisted she will be at the table, and there wasn't to be any more of this nonsense.
Laura was ordered to get the door, but she wasn't going to, so when tom and Jim arrived, Laura was forced to open it. She then excuse herself politely from their mist immediately.
Tom and Jim sat on the patio and Tom told Jim that he wanted to go into the marine troops. Amanda called them in shortly after that, and dinner got started. Laura faints and Tom carries her to the couch. They were eating dinner, and in the middle of it the lights went out, because tom didn't pay for the light bill. They lighted candles.
After dinner they told Jim to bring some wine to Laura and so he did. They talked and he encouraged her. They were dancing when, Jim dropped and broke Laura's unicorn that she was showing to him. He was very apologetic about it. She told him how much she loved him, and Jim told her she was lovely, but he already had a date. Laura was shocked and sad. When he was about to leave Amanda came back in and she found out he was engaged and was going to marry because they had a conversation, which is where he told her he couldn't call again. She was very shocked, and Jim left to pick up his girlfriend. She became sad that Jim could not marry Laura and then she was angry at Tom, because he invited a man that had a girlfriend, already, which shocked tom when he found out that Jim was engaged. All that is the rising action.
Now the climax is when Tom is angry at Amanda and storms out for the very last time. He went to the Marines, and probably will never return to his home. The denouemment is the last sceen where he is thinking about laura, who he misses. He was expressing how much he actually loved her.
This book has a massive amount of messages. The truth should be excepted, courage isn't easy, you shouldn't be so exceptant, love can drive people insane, love can hurt, love isn't good in excessive amounts, don't force yourself on others, life is not fair, and the truth hurts is only some of the messages. The one thing I will remember is the characterization of Jim and how he is so encouraging, which really touches me.
I would totally recommend this to people and I already have, because this is just a great production. It's just so real, sad, and so many people could relate to it. There's a lot of good morals in here that everybody should realize is the truth. It's also very bitterly romantic, and the writing is pretty much great. I like how he characterized everyone. In this play I can relate to Laura most since she also has a little bit of a disability. She also has the same type of parents I sort of do. She also doesn't really have too much friends to rely on, and I don't have that either, but for different reasons. We both are sort of loners.
Play Analysis
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
A man who had accomplished many deeds in the lifetime he is surely not a simple man, who has a creative mind and surely their life was not waisted. Often they are not born in luxurious environments everyone hugging and kissing them lovingly. There happens to be a man born on twenty-sixth of march in 1911 that fits this description well. He lived a valuable life and had a tremendously big inpact in the society. He was very famous, lived a life that deserve full marks, and died on the twenty-fith of February in 1983 in a hotel. He was neither Shakespeare nor Tolkien, but was the successful play writer Thomas Lanier William, who is more commonly known as Tennessee Williams. This name was given to him by a college schoolmate, because of the southern accent he possessed, and his father was from Tennessee. Thus, he gets the name Tennessee and his last name is Williams.
In the william's family their was three children, a mother, and a father. Tennessee William had a sister named Rose, a brother named Dakin, a mother name Edwina, and a father named Cornelius. His father was abusive" and works as executive for a shoe company requiring him to be away from his family quite a bit. He favored Dakin William over thomas. His mother was quite moody and was a southern bell. Mr. Williams always had a hard time with his family, which inspired most of his stories, plays, or poems. The family moved many a times to different areas.
He was rather close to his sister Rose who had schizophrenia and spent her adulthood in mental hospitals. It got worse with treatments. She was sent to Washington for a prefrontal lobotomy treatment and she was left incapacitated as a result of a bad surgery, which Mr. Williams was rather angry about and never forgave his parents for permitting the treatment to be done. People suspected the angr'y state of Mr. Tennessee Williams caused him to look in to drinking. He was an addict to alcohol for the rest of his life. Over all he was depressed rather much, and in the years 1950 to 1960 he was in a continuous depression for ten years, because his best mate died. Appreciation for him was not given by all the people, but some of them loathed his styles, and critiques was harsh and unwelcoming to his ears, because they hated the McCarthyism he used and the fact that he was homosexual. He matured in his writing because after that it was more experimental. In 1969 he was hospitalized for' one year. The poet that was a huge influence in William's life was Hart Crane, and he had a desire to be burried next to him, but that never was true. When he died people suspected that someone murdered him, but there was prove he could of killed himself by way of drugs and alcohol. His hotel room had half drunken bottles of alcohol and many bottles of pills left.
He was seventy-two when he died in a hotel room choking on a bottle cap. The hotel room was not spotlessly innocent, but instead it was quite the opposite. It was hotel elysee where he had died. Tennessee Williams had his funeral at a catholic church, and was burried at the Calvary cemetery in St. Louis Misouri. His fortune was given to the Litterary Rights Suewanee in the south and was funding it's programs, which was all in honor of his grandfather Walter Dakins.
Mr. Thomas William was born in his grandfather's home in Columbus Mississippi. In 1914 at the age of three his family move to Clarksdale. In 1918 at the age of seven his family moved to St. Louis Misouri. At five he got diphtheria, which paralysed him for three years, so meanwhile he couldn't do anything. He was encourage to challenge and strain his imagination, so his life wasn't to be waisted. He got a typewriter at the age of 13, starting to write with it. Thus, with a few years of hardworking spirits and determined work, he won third place in a writing contest at age sixteen. That resulted in him receiveing five dollars as a prize.
He went to three universities in the 1930S. The first one he went to was in Misouri, university in Washington was his second university he went to for just a year, and finally in 1938 he went to Iowa State University where he got his degree. He worked in several places first for a while in his father's shoe factory. Some other jobs he work for were waiter, elevator operator, and theater usher.
In 1935 his first play was performed. He was going to write for the WPA, so he lived in Louisiana's French quarters in 1939. In his entire life he wrote poems, plays, short stories, novelas, and Novels. He won four Pulitzer Prize For Drama awards and two New York Critics Circle awards. He won the Tony Award for the Rose Tatoo.
This play is in the poor era of the 1930S when everyone wasn't gay and merry. It was the great depression and everybody was poor and was in loads of debts. Especially in the south where they lived in St. Louis misouri. The people went hungry, the job opportunities were slim, food were scarce, and money was definitely a big issue. They lived in an apartment building'. Their only entrance and exit was by the fire escape.
There is a slanty ramp going up to look like the fire escape at the front of the stage outside the house. The brown thick curtains hangs down and there is a flap for the door. To the left of the curtain is a empty area with a couple of chair set out, which is the patio area. Inside the door is a diningroom with the kitchen to the side. There is a shiny tall square table and it has three light brown chairs.
In the kitchen there is one counter, the sink in the middle, and cupboards along the sides. The stove, oven, and microwave is on one side. Farther in, lays the living room on one side there is a black couch, and on it their is some comfortable looking pillows. To the right of the couch is a small golden table with a small pink telephone. On the left of the couch there is a room with a bed and a brown shelf. Next to that room there's another room with a bed and a black desk.
At the other end of the living room there's another room, and this one is much bigger. This room contains a big bed and beside it there's a small white desk and yellowing shelves. The first room is magenta, and so is the third room. In the second room one side is pink and one side is blue. The house and the patio takes up three quarters of the space. The rest is just empty space.
The protagonists of this story are Laura, Tom, and Jim. Laura is the main character and she is cripled. Laura fears the world, shy, withdrawn, reserved, timid, nervous, has low self esteem, frightened easily, and weak. Tom is Laura's brother, and works at a warehouse. He's also the one supporting the family but he drinks. Tom is caring, rebellious, adventurous, brave, and rather short tempered. Jim is a coworker and friend of tom's. He works at the warehouse as well, and is going to night school. Jim is kind, encouraging, energetic, loving, apologetic, polite, has high self esteem, funny, up beat, and fair. The antagonist is Amanda and she is the mother of the main character. She takes care of the house, and Laura. Amanda is short tempered, moody, caring, talkative, outspoken, energetic, helpful, worried, loving, aggressive, and is rather a criticizer.
The preliminary situation is the first dinner sceen which introduces the characters, what they are like, and there backgrounds. Amanda's background is revealed and so is her traits. She is introduced as caring, talkative, and moody. Tom is introduced as rebellious. Laura is introduced as shy, cripled, and dependent. Their place of residence in an apartment is revealed.
One day Laura had returned from whereever she went pretending she had gone to business' college. Her mother had gone to her school to check up on her progress and found out she hasn't been going. She was furious at Laura, because she dropped out. Laura told her mother that she has been out walking around. That's the initial sceen.
Tom and Amanda had a fight, because Amanda wanted to know where he goes every night. He wouldn't tell her, and his only reply was out to the movies. He goes and gets drunk. Laura let him in one night and found him drunk. She assisted him on to the couch and covers him with a blanket. Tom apologizes unwillingly to his mother, because of the fight the previous day.
Amanda insisted that he find a boy for Laura to marry.
Tom announces that he found a guy sometime later, and tells his mother that he's coming over the next night. Amanda freaks out worrying, because she wants everything perfect.
She gets laura ready and Laura finds out it is Jim. It was her high school sweetheart that she loved so dearly, but who didn't love her back, so she didn't want to be at the table with him. Her mother insisted she will be at the table, and there wasn't to be any more of this nonsense.
Laura was ordered to get the door, but she wasn't going to, so when tom and Jim arrived, Laura was forced to open it. She then excuse herself politely from their mist immediately.
Tom and Jim sat on the patio and Tom told Jim that he wanted to go into the marine troops. Amanda called them in shortly after that, and dinner got started. Laura faints and Tom carries her to the couch. They were eating dinner, and in the middle of it the lights went out, because tom didn't pay for the light bill. They lighted candles.
After dinner they told Jim to bring some wine to Laura and so he did. They talked and he encouraged her. They were dancing when, Jim dropped and broke Laura's unicorn that she was showing to him. He was very apologetic about it. She told him how much she loved him, and Jim told her she was lovely, but he already had a date. Laura was shocked and sad. When he was about to leave Amanda came back in and she found out he was engaged and was going to marry because they had a conversation, which is where he told her he couldn't call again. She was very shocked, and Jim left to pick up his girlfriend. She became sad that Jim could not marry Laura and then she was angry at Tom, because he invited a man that had a girlfriend, already, which shocked tom when he found out that Jim was engaged. All that is the rising action.
Now the climax is when Tom is angry at Amanda and storms out for the very last time. He went to the Marines, and probably will never return to his home. The denouemment is the last sceen where he is thinking about laura, who he misses. He was expressing how much he actually loved her.
This book has a massive amount of messages. The truth should be excepted, courage isn't easy, you shouldn't be so exceptant, love can drive people insane, love can hurt, love isn't good in excessive amounts, don't force yourself on others, life is not fair, and the truth hurts is only some of the messages. The one thing I will remember is the characterization of Jim and how he is so encouraging, which really touches me.
I would totally recommend this to people and I already have, because this is just a great production. It's just so real, sad, and so many people could relate to it. There's a lot of good morals in here that everybody should realize is the truth. It's also very bitterly romantic, and the writing is pretty much great. I like how he characterized everyone. In this play I can relate to Laura most since she also has a little bit of a disability. She also has the same type of parents I sort of do. She also doesn't really have too much friends to rely on, and I don't have that either, but for different reasons. We both are sort of loners.