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"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

does in the story. She arrives in the place filled with life and energy in relationship to her outward personality, yet she is als...

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

stairs ascend to the entrances of both" (Williams 1797). There is a glimpse of the sky that "gracefully attenuates the atmosphere...

be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...

of Tennessee Williams"). To relieve his boredom, Williams wrote at night but he broke down, depressed, after the breakup with Kram...

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, are two of American thea...

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the intense creationism v. evolution debate this trial sparked in a consideration of evolutio...

noted that a number of other characters, including Big Daddy, create the social perspective through which Brick and Maggies relati...

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?-I wish I knew...? (Cat...Roof, Act one 25). The theme of lack of communication lies at ...

In six pages this paper discusses how decadence is thematically portrayed in the characterization of Blanche in A Streetcar Named ...

In seven pages this paper examines the dramatic personalities of characters Brick, Big Daddy, and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ...

In five pages this paper explains why Brick is the protagonist of this award winning drama by Tennessee Williams as his character ...

In five pages this paper examines the characterizations, theme of mendacity, and the dramatic structure of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, ...

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

product of their heritage in many ways, for they are from the Old South, a place where women looked good, if they were wealthy, an...