Essays Tagged: "Tennessee Williams"

"The Glass Menagerie "by Tennessee Williams, the characters' relation to the past

arisons about the similarities between the characters' relation to the past.The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee WilliamsThe Tragic Effects of the PastIn The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams creates a ...

(3 pages) 183 0 4.9 May/1994

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Expository Essay on "A Street Car Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

One of the main themes expressed by Tennessee Williams in his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is to condemn those who display cruelty an ...

(3 pages) 158 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Symbolism in the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

tsymbols and motifs,serving to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of theplay.Tennessee Williams wrote the play so that each character had a special symbol which resembledtheir p ... in its roots because hedescribes them to be flowering as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers.Tennessee Williams used many symbolic aspects to describe Laura and the world she livesin.In the pla ...

(3 pages) 250 0 2.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Tennessee williams

Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. As a ... ze as the years best play. Williams averaged two plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in New York City. Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than t ... ningsStopped Rocking and Other ScreenplaysA Streetcar Named DesireSweet Bird of YouthTHE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 1Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass MenagerieTHE THEAT ...

(2 pages) 98 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Many Traits of Blanch. Speaks of Tennessee Williams' "A Street Car Named Desire"

ves that come and visit. Some people don't like their relatives and they hate when relatives visit. Tennessee Williams shows this feeling between Stanley and Blanch in the book A Street Car Named Desi ...

(6 pages) 90 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Glass Menagerie. Gives comparisons about the similarities between the characters' relation to the past

nglish 342Glass MenagerieThe Glass Menagerie is a play that is very important to modern literature. Tennessee Williams describes four separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they fa ... ally stumbles and breaks the glass unicorn. Neither of them are comfortable.In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams wrote about the struggles of an American family during the Depression-Era. He pre ...

(6 pages) 333 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

"A streetcar named desire" by Tennessee Williams. A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the Author, and Literary Critism

Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire contains more within it's characters, situations, ... light on!' This intense, frightening scene reveals to the audience the way Blanche views the world. Tennessee Williams's use of this kind of dual view of the world to develop Blanche's character is a ... flicting worlds of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois are too different to share the same reality. Tennessee Williams's world in A Streetcar Named Desire, and the characters within it, become so fami ...

(11 pages) 310 0 4.6 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams

"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams shows the struggle of two people to fit into society, Tom and Laura, and how soci ... hat's shown by the horn breaking. Tom then realizes that and leaves which causes him to change too. Tennessee Williams artfully depicted this.The fire escape. A downtrodden red thing off the sides of ... he had dreamed about because he stayed that way and didn't dream about going any higher. Ultimately Tennessee Wiliiams message was that society was rigid and it forced those which did not fit the mold ...

(4 pages) 115 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

the symbolism in the glass menagery

tsymbols and motifs,serving to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of theplay.Tennessee Williams wrote the play so that each character had a special symbol which resembledtheir p ... in its roots because hedescribes them to be flowering as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers.Tennessee Williams used many symbolic aspects to describe Laura and the world she livesin.In the pla ...

(1 pages) 118 0 3.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

This book is about the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The question was to describe the symbolism of the glass unicorn.

Unicorn to Jim symbolizes Laura's broken heart that will leave with him. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the unicorn has significant symbolism.The glass unicorn has many of the same pro ... n heart that he will take with him when he leaves the Wingfield apartment.In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the unicorn has many symbolic uses. Laura has many of the same qualities as glas ...

(4 pages) 252 2 4.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Glass Menagerie - Symbolism - Tenesee Williams

In the play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the sy ...

(3 pages) 128 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A discussion into the ways in which Williams explores memory in 'The Glass Menagerie'

Tennessee Williams has shown memory as a distortion of what really happened. The 'Glass Menagerie' i ... erate. We can sometimes block out the bad things. We then do not get a true idea of how things were.Tennessee Williams has used many features in his play to put across the illusion of memory to the au ...

(4 pages) 104 1 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" early reflections on character, interaction between characters and theme.

Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" early reflections on character, interaction between ch ... ella who seems to understand the tragedy of Blanche's madness.One of the central themes explored in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire is fantasy's inability to overcome reality. Although Wil ... sn't mean any harm. She believes that magic, rather than reality, represents life as it ought to be.Tennessee explores the relationship between sex and death in his play 'A Street Car Named Desire.' B ...

(10 pages) 223 0 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Brief Biography of Tennesse Williams' life and the theme of societies destructive impact on non-conformists, in two of his plays, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams was born, Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 inColumbus, Mississippi. His f ... when we look at the dialogue, and the relations betweenthe actions in the plays and the actions in Tennessee Williams' life.The first affinity we will look at is Laura Wingfield's relationship to her ... rotherTom, in The Glass Menagerie, in comparison to the relationship of Rose Williams to herbrother Tennessee.In the story, Laura Winfield was born with an illness that left her crippled, causingher t ...

(9 pages) 92 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

All of the characters in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams have their own methods of escape. Explain.

good idea in stressful situations. One play that typifies this behaviour is The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. In this play, the main characters all have means of escape, each method being mo ...

(4 pages) 108 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Some critics believe that the visual and musical effects used in 'The glass Menagerie' by Tennesse Williams are what make it such an effective play. Do you agree?

glass Menagerie' are whatmake it such an effective play.Do you agree?The visual and musical effects Tennessee Williams incorporates into 'The Glass Menagerie' are extremely thorough and detailed. They ... ay. This, in turn increases the reader's comprehension of the play. The set and scenery description Tennessee Williams provides sets the play in context, for example, in the first scene, a description ...

(7 pages) 131 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

A Streetcar Named Desire: Detailed description of the 4 main characters and their traits + depiction of women.

Life has been cruel and brutal to all of the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. All except Stanley Kowalski, that is, who has instead been cruel to those in lif ...

(9 pages) 121 1 4.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Illusions and denial in "The Glass Managerie" by Tennessee Williams

As human beings we all indulge in illusions and escape mechanisms. In "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams presents us with a family that exhibits this very human tendency to escape realit ...

(2 pages) 58 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Tennessee Williams: A Great American Author.

Tennessee WilliamsA Great American AuthorThomas Lanier Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi to Ed ... versity of Missouri where he joined a fraternity, but flunked the ROTC to the dismay of his father. Tennessee, a nickname given to him by fraternity members, found that he was able to hide his shyness ... have contributed to Williams's nervous breakdown. Tom spent a year with his grandfather in Memphis. Tennessee's grandmother financed his return to college at Washington University. While in college, h ...

(10 pages) 103 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Tennessee Williams' "A streetcar named desire".

Tennessee Williams's play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," contains more within its characters, situatio ... light on!" This intense, frightening scene reveals to the audience the way Blanche views the world. Tennessee Williams's use of this kind of dual view of the world to develop Blanche's character is a ...

(5 pages) 201 0 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American