Symbolism at a closer look:
A slew of objects and/or events and/or characters serve a specific purpose in this 'memory play'.
Besides the unicorn, the fire escape, Laura Wingfield, the candles, what other OBJECT and/or EVENT and/or CHARACTER, do you find representation for a theme in Williams' play? Explain your choice. With supporting details.
posted by belag at Wednesday, February 28, 2007
7 Comments:
Mr. Wingfield's portrait is the most obvious representation of the theme: "you can never run away from your past". The present situation of the family is due to the fact that Mr. Wingfield went away. Throughout the play, the large portrait is always looking, silently laughing at the mess he left behind him.
8:34 AM
Tom Wingfield's obsession with the movies represents an escape from reality. Tom's life is depressing. He despises his job and has to take care of his "fallen Southern belle" mother and his crippled sister. The thing that helps him escape his unfavorable real life are the movies. He goes to the movies in order to forget his problematic life for a while and enjoy the show. In the end, when he comments about the fact that the memory of Laura has always stayed with him, he mentions the "going to the movies" once again. This signals that even later in life, far from his family, he needs to escape from reality and enter the magical, fascinating world of the movies.
8:46 AM
Another thing that serves a scpecific purpose in the play is both an object and a character.Its the portrait of Mr Wingfield which looks over the family he left behind and the chaos they are in with him smiling at them.This object/character represents the following theme:"Like father, like son".This is because the portrait always smiled over Tom as if he knew that his son would abandon Laura and Amanda in the end.
8:56 AM
The poratrit of Mr. Wingfield. I think this is a important object and the silent character of this play. The portrait represents the absent father figure, while it's presence in the play gives a feeling like the Wingfields are being watched and laughed at all the time.
9:00 AM
The yearbook Laura and Jim O`Connor can be a representation of...
9:07 AM
The yearbook Laura and Jim O`Connor can be a representation of...
9:07 AM
Tom Wingfield is a 25 year old man that still lives with his family and has nothing to do but work for his family meaning for his mom and sister. And at his age he should be married and have children. This is the cause why Tom is so unhappy and goes to the movies everytime just to forget about himself and his life and enter another reality in which he is another man or person. he escapes from reality. AT the end he leaves his family in the pirsue of another future and faith in becomes like his father.
9:07 AM
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