The Soft People Of Laura And Tom Wingfield In The Glass Menagerie And Blanche Dubois In A Streetcar Named Desire
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Author | : Toni Friedrich |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3656094020 |
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, comment: This term paper is intended to elucidate on the topic of "soft people" within Tennessee Williams most important plays, "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." Why did the theme "soft people" gain such prominence within Williams` work? What parallels can be detected between the author ́s life and aspects of his characters? What makes Laura and Tom Wingfield, on the one hand, and Blanche DuBois, on the other hand, belong to this category? What misery do these characters share? What signifies their softness in any individual case, and what determines their fate?, abstract: "I ́ve run for protection .... And so the soft people have got to - shimmer and glow - put a - paper lantern over the light. ... But I ́m scared now - awf`ly [sic] scared." These lines of self-revelation by Blanche DuBois, the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire, go hand in hand with Maggie ́s words of consolation at the end of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: "Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of ...." Both describe one of the most crucial, if not the most central, elements of Tennessee Williams literary work: the concept of fragility and need for protection within a universe of hostility - the notion of "soft people." This term paper is intended to elucidate on the topic of "soft people" within Tennessee Williams most important plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. It will try to investigate the following questions: Why did the theme "soft people" gain such prominence within Williams` work? What parallels can be detected between the author ́s life and aspects of his characters? What makes Laura and Tom Wingfield, on the one hand, and Blanche DuBois, on the other hand, belong to t
Author | : Toni Friedrich |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3656094284 |
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: “I ́ve run for protection .... And so the soft people have got to – shimmer and glow – put a – paper lantern over the light. ... But I ́m scared now – awf`ly [sic] scared.” These lines of self-revelation by Blanche DuBois, the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire, go hand in hand with Maggie ́s words of consolation at the end of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: “Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of ....“ Both describe one of the most crucial, if not the most central, elements of Tennessee Williams literary work: the concept of fragility and need for protection within a universe of hostility – the notion of “soft people.” This term paper is intended to elucidate on the topic of “soft people” within Tennessee Williams most important plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. It will try to investigate the following questions: Why did the theme “soft people” gain such prominence within Williams` work? What parallels can be detected between the author ́s life and aspects of his characters? What makes Laura and Tom Wingfield, on the one hand, and Blanche DuBois, on the other hand, belong to this category? What misery do these characters share? What signifies their softness in any individual case, and what determines their fate at the end of the plays? In order to answer these questions, a thorough look into the characters and metaphors of the plays – with help of the plays – will be provided, as well as secondary literature of a wide range of literary scholars consulted. To achieve a high and detailed level of understanding of Tennessee Williams` allusions, tropes and allegories, an examination of the playwright’s personal life will precede the analysis of his “soft people.” Moreover, to attain a profound exploration of the singularity of Tom ́s situation – with respect to him being trapped within a society of mediocrity and sedation – the ideas and postulations of the Frankfurt School, the so called critical theory of industrial society, will be discussed.
Author | : Maritta Schwartz |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2008-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3640131290 |
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), Ruhr-University of Bochum (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar: Modern American Drama, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this written paper I am going to deal with the topic of soft people in Tennessee Williams' dramas. First I will give a general introduction to the quality of soft people. It will be explained what kind of characters are described with this term. A general characterization of them, of the other characters and the general idea and image of the world which is created in Williams' dramas will be given. Afterwards the results will be specified at the examples of four characters belonging to the category of soft people. At the end of this paper I will give a personal evaluation of the conception of the soft people.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780811216203 |
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822200994 |
THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written version (entitled ORPHEUS DESCENDING), the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. He takes a job in the dry goods stor
Author | : Susan C. W. Abbotson |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Presents the numerous themes that weave their way through modern drama and highlights the variety of thought that exists in response to them.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521497329 |
Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.
Author | : Annett Gräfe |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3638759830 |
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut f r Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Classics of Modern American Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Of particular interest for this paper is the juxtaposition of conflicting traits in Amanda's character. On the one hand, she is characterized by critics as the good mother and perpetuator. On the other hand, she is the terrible, cruel mother and perpetrator. These different characteristics seem to be directly connected to Amanda's relationship to her children. For her daughter she is the good mother, trying everything to ensure her daughter's security in the future. Her son experiences his mother's treatment as suffocating and restricting for his dreams and ambitions. Yet, both of these different attitudes seem to be motivated by the same disposition in Amanda: the love and devotion of a mother for her children. Consequently, there must be other reasons that motivate Amanda's behavior. This paper is going to consider the social and economical situation in the USA at the time of the play, Amanda's glorification of her own past and the fact that the play is Tom's memory for a combination of these three points seem to be the reason why Amanda is portrait as such an ambiguous character in the drama. To begin with, the relevant social and economic circumstances in the USA during the time of the play are going to be analyzed. Amanda's glorification of her past is then discussed followed by the analysis of the influence of Tom's memory on the portrayal of Amanda in the play. Finally, the results of the analysis of the three factors are applied to the relationship of Amanda and her children.
Author | : Milly S. Barranger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9781285463360 |
Experience theatre as "a performing art and humanistic event." THEATRE: A WAY OF SEEING is an exciting introduction to all aspects of theatre: who sees it, what is seen, and where and how it is seen.
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000-12-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521794107 |
New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.