The Glass Menagerie-Journal Entry #1 If you could change the outcome of the story‚ what change would you make? If I could change the outcome of the story‚ I would have allowed Laura and Jim O’Connor to get married. I would have made this change because then Amanda’s problem would have been solved‚ and Laura would have had financial support in the future. Another reason I would have made this change is because Jim O’Connor would have been the ideal man for Laura because he connected with her.
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be defined as having alternate sexual relations with various people; a trait which both characters can be seen to possess. They contrast in terms of the view that society has upon them. The beginning of the drama ‘A streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) Williams suggests to the audience that Blanche feels as though she has lost everything including her family‚ her fortune and her estate. However the audience are currently unaware of her promiscuity‚ so a judgement of her based on this is not yet formed.
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“Hank Williams is the father of contemporary country music (CMT).” Hank was an American singer and song writer who is regarded as the most important musician to country music of all time. Hank’s career was cut short by a sudden death at the early age of 29. Hank was born September 17‚ 1923 in Mount Olive‚ Butler County‚ Alabama. His birth name was Hiram Williams which was later changed to Hank when he began his career. This is where he met Rufus Payne‚ who they called Tee Tot. This black street
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Nietzsche’s opinion‚ compare and contrast the presentation of the past as a limiting factor to the identities of the female protagonists in A Streetcar Named Desire and Top Girls. The Southern Belle protagonist‚ Blanche Dubois‚ by the playwright Tennessee Williams is deeply haunted by her past‚ which is limiting her identity in the present and in order to cope; the protagonist creates fantasy. Blanche’s past is being presented here as the chain she finds difficult to forget‚ indeed difficult to avoid
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While reading the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams‚ the reader quickly learns of a‚ sadly‚ typical tale of family strife. In this play a family struggles to find the way out of their secluded‚ seemingly solitary life. Amanda Wingfield‚ the mother of Tom and Laura‚ only craves for the best for her kids. However‚ this ostensibly adoring mother puts Toms needs at the bottom of list. As a family without a father figure Tom‚ being the only boy‚ steps up to help his mother and sister. Striving
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William Carlos Williams wrote his most famous poem in 1934 entitled "This is To Say." He is credited with creating a writing style referred to as the minimalist set. His writings show the purpose of building real images. Williams set the tone of his poems with the use of simple words‚ short phrases‚ and plain talk‚ without the typical form or rhyming. So how then is it a poem? Was it just a note on the refrigerator door left for his wife? In today’s time‚ it would work nicely as a tweet. When asked
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policeman‚ Doctors also step out of there comfort zone in order to save their patients. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos William ‚ examines when it is justifiable for doctors to use force against his patients in order to protect them from his/her own ‘Idiocy”‚ but in today’s society the use of force has changed dramatically. In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams the narrator describes the little girls rage for the doctor. “the child was fairly eating me up with her cold
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How is conflict featuring in key relationships‚ the catalyst for the pursuit of dreams? In the novel‚ Sons and Lovers by D.H Lawrence and the movie‚ The Glass Menagerie based on the play by Tennessee Williams‚ conflict featuring in relationships plays a key role in altering one’s pursuit of dream. A range of relationships are explored and this is done through a variety of language techniques such as symbolism and imagery. The movie‚ The Glass Menagerie is set in a small apartment in St Louis in
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Wingfield slips on the white dress of her adolescence and is suddenly thrown back in time‚ living as if she were the young girl she once was at Blue Mountain. Death of the Salesman by Arthur Miller was published in 1949‚ only four years preceding Tennessee Williams play of The Glass Menagerie. Interestingly enough‚ both plays begin with a glimpse of tragedy and end with self inflicted remorse. Although Death of the Salesman and The Glass Menagerie appear coincidently similar at first glance. Upon a closer
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