Ppt. the glass menagerei by Zuhro

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STUDY OF DRAMA

PRESENTED BY:

1. Putri Nurul Hidayati

2. Zuhrotun Samawiyah

THE EXTRINSIC ELEMENT ANALYSIS

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THE GLASS MENAGERIEBY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

This discussion is about one objective. It is to study the reflection of William’s own life poured in the play.

The psychological approach is used in this analysis.

This drama is the reflection of playwright’s own life

It is a story of unhappy family life after being deserted by the father and the daughter has problem in socializing.

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The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory

play by Tennessee Williams which premiered in 1944

and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.

Published : 1945

Playwright : Tennessee Williams

Characters : Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield,

Tom Wingfield, and Jim O’connor.


THE AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHYThomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911

– February 25, 1983) was an American best known playwright, author of many stage classics. He was born of English, Welsh and Huguenot descent, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second child of Edwina (née Dakin) and Cornelius Coffin (C.C.) Williams.

His father, Cornelius Williams had a violent temper and was a man prone to use his fists. He disdained his son's effeminacy and his mother Edwina, locked in an unhappy marriage, focused her overbearing attention almost entirely on her frail young son. Many critics and historians note that Williams found inspiration for much of his writing in his own dysfunctional family.


By the mid-1930s his father's increasing alcoholism and abusive temper (he had part of his ear bitten off in a poker game fight) finally led Edwina to separate from him, although they never divorced.

Throughout his life Williams remained close to his sister Rose who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman. In 1943, as her behavior became increasingly disturbing, she was subjected to a lobotomy, unfortunately with disastrous results, and was subsequently institutionalized for the rest of her life. As soon as he was financially able to, Williams had her moved to a private institution just north of New York City where he often visited her. He gave her a percentage interest in several of his most successful plays, the royalties from which were applied toward her care. The devastating effects of Rose's illness may have contributed to Williams' alcoholism and his dependence on various combinations of amphetamines and barbiturates.

On February 25, 1983, Williams was found dead in his suite at the Elysee Hotel in New York at age of 71.


THE SYNOPSIS The action of the play centers on Tom, his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura. In

1937 they live together in a small apartment in St. Louis. Their father abandoned

them years earlier, and Tom is now the family's breadwinner. He works at the

Continental Shoemakers warehouse during the day, but he disappears nightly "to the

movies." Amanda is a loving mother, but her meddling and nagging are hard to live

with for Tom, who is a grown man and who earns the wages that support the entire

family. Laura is a frightened and terribly shy girl, with unbelievably weak nerves.

She is also slightly lame in one leg, and she seldom leaves the apartment of her own

volition. She busies herself caring for her "glass menagerie," a collection of delicate

little glass animals.


Amanda dreams constantly of the long-ago days when she was a young

Southern belle and the darling of her small town's social scene. She enrolled

Laura in classes at Rubicam's Business College, hoping that a career in business

would make Laura self-sufficient. She discovers that Laura stopped attending

class a long time ago, because the speed tests on the typewriter terrified her.

After the fiasco at Rubicam's, Amanda gives up on a business career for Laura

and puts all her hopes into finding a husband for her.

Amanda's relationship with Tom is difficult. Tom longs to be free – like his father -

to abandon Amanda and Laura and set off into the world. He has stayed because

of his responsibility for them, but his mother's nagging and his frail sister's

idiosyncrasies make the apartment a depressing and oppressive place. Tom also

hates his job. His only escape comes from his frequent visits to the movies, but

his nightly disappearances anger and baffle Amanda. He fights with Amanda all

the time, and the situation at home grows more unbearable.


Amanda, sensing that Tom wants to leave, tries to make a deal with him. If Tom

and Amanda can find a husband for Laura, a man who can take care of her, then

Tom will be free of his responsibility to them. Amanda asks Tom to bring home

gentlemen callers to meet Laura. Tom brings home Jim O'Connor, a fellow

employee at the warehouse. He is an outgoing and enthusiastic man on whom

Laura had a terrible crush in high school. Jim chats with Laura, growing

increasingly flirtatious, until he finally kisses her. Then he admits that he has a

fiancé and cannot call again. For fragile Laura, the news is devastating.

Amanda is furious, and after Jim leaves she accuses Tom of playing a cruel joke

on them. Amanda and Tom have one final fight, and not long afterward Tom

leaves for good. In his closing monologue, he admits that he cannot escape the

memory of his sister. Though he abandoned her years ago, Laura still haunts him.


The characters in the play, were representative from their

family. It can bee seen that the character of Laura in the

drama is his sister, Rose who was diagnosed with

schizophrenia as a young woman and she liked collecting the

glass figurines. Besides, Amanda Wingfield - Laura and Tom’s

mother in the play- is Williams and Rose’s Mother. Whereas

Tom is Williams himself.


THE CONCLUSIONCharacters in his plays are often seen as

representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was understood to be modeled on Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire is also based on her. Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was generally seen to represent Williams' mother, Edwina. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself.


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Ppt. the glass menagerei by Zuhro