A Psychological Criticism of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is an excellent piece to approach psychologically The Glass Menagerie is a play based upon the memories of Tom Wingfield a main character in the piece and ironically a major theme of the play is the power of memories how they affect our actions and shape our futures Other themes include lost sense of reality and the allure yet impracticality of escape The Wingfield family experience gre
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie is based on the memory of the narrator Tom from the play The characters in the play consist of Amanda Tom Jim the gentlemen caller Mr Wingfield and the main character Laura Wingfield Everyone worries about Laura because of her situation in which she dropped out of business school In order to ensure a happy life for her Lauras mom Amanda desperately searches for a gentlemen caller for Laura To help Tom brought back a friend from work Jim and invites him to
Analysis of Tom Wingfield In Tennessee Williams play the glass menagerie Tom Wingfield was the creative artistic character which is in contrast to his mothers character and needed to leave St Louis entirely so that to be out from under the dark cloud of his mother Even the gentleman caller Jim and his own sister Laura are much unlike Tom Tom channeled much of his creativity into the writing poems and to him the arts and adventure were very important However mother as well as the realistic world
Williams use of Expression as an essential element of his drama Tennessee Williams is admired for the theatricality of his plays and for introducing literary devices into the theatre in particularly The Glass Menagerie In this drama he uses devices such as lighting and sound techniques to enhance the effectiveness of his themes Throughout this play the characters are tempted toward illusion when they find reality too painful Although the illusions of some characters are more socially acceptable
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and is about the two basic humans drives which are death and desire The two main drives could be representative of the state of America after WW1 a country wavering between a dying past and the adolescent new world The reader viewer of the play will experience these two basic drives through the characters culture background imagery music and symbols For the characters to have the direct effect of representing the texts underlying