scholarly journals A Probe into the Fate of Women in the Evolution of Society—A Brief Analysis of Amanda in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. p153
Author(s):  
Zhang Tiehu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Southern Women ◽  
Southern Culture ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Dramatic Characters ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Moment

Tennessee Williams is the most famous southern American playwright in twentieth century (Adler, 1994). He is known for his strong southern cultural background, especially southern women educated in a traditional gentlewoman style. The southern women of Tennessee believed that their traditional culture was the essence of human civilization and therefore of considerable value. However, such values could not be recognized in the modern industrial society. Most of these women were sensitive and tender, suffering from industrialized society, full of all sorts of evils, and they had turned to traditional culture to seek mental peace and shelter for the moment, so they again became a lonely and frustrated. While they refused to change their cultural identity, they had to live in a modern, industrialized society that did not belong to them. Therefore, they were regarded as people living in the cultural gap, and eventually became the victims of the confrontation between traditional southern culture and modern industrial culture. As one of the most contradictory and dramatic characters in the play, Amanda is also one of the unique images of women in American drama. As Tennessee said when introducing the characters in the play, “the portrayal of Amanda is by no means derived from a specific archetype”.

Folclor și identitate

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Sabina Ispas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Specific Identity

The folklore phenomenon (the deep, oral, popular, traditional culture) is represented by all the creations of a community that is based on tradition, are expressed by a group of individuals and recognized as reflections of its expectations to the extent that it represents its social and cultural identity. This is, in fact, a sum of local, village and city identities in which “individual identities” are incorporated. Through it, the fusion between territory, language and people is obtained, which is legitimized “through a genealogy and a space conceptualized as such”. We belong to a world in which access to information is open to all. In this context, in order to find yourself, you must define and assume your own identity. Such a complicated and responsible process cannot be undertaken without reference to the traditional system of norms, expressed in that large segment of the culture that is folklore. A Europe of nations cannot be achieved without knowing and understanding the system of values to which they have appealed throughout the entire period of their definition. Folklore is a fundamental landmark for the man of the post-industrial society who is in search of the self. Along with the scholarly culture, to which it is complementary, folklore contributes to the realization of the universal, European, national heritage. Forms of expression of folklore, musical, literary or choreic texts, ritual practices, beliefs, the dominant religion of the group, etc. cooperates for the purpose of forming this identity. The standards and values are transmitted orally, by imitation or other means. Folklore includes, inter alia, phenomena of language, literature, music, dance, games, mythology, rituals, customs, crafts, architecture and other arts. The present study highlights, synthetically and systematically, the main traditions created and developed over time by the Romanian people, traditions that define it and give it a specific identity.

A true study of a benevolent state. S.N. Baburin. Moral State. Russian view on the values of constitutionalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Orlin Zagorov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Revolution

This article is the author's reflections on the problems of humanism, morality, and traditional culture in connection with the concept of a Moral State put forward by Professor S.N. Baburin. The role of the spirituality of the Slavic peoples and their contribution to the strengthening of European cultural identity is considered. The author argues the importance of the conclusion that the virtue of the state as its internal quality in itself turns the state into a guarantor of virtue as a universal value and the validity of the thesis that the values of both Orthodox Christianity and Slavic spirituality represent a solid foundation of a Moral State. The author sees in the Moral State a mechanism for the harmonious combination of the spirit of the revolution with the revolution of the spirit.

scholarly journals Blue Mountain and Blue Roses: An Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-205
Author(s):  
Namitha V. S
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Blue Mountain ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Southern Belle ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams, the remarkably outstanding American dramatist of the 1920s, through his plays, presents a marked concern for the identity crisis a woman faces. He projects the crisis arising out of the conflict between a woman’s own aspirations and the traditional role expectations. The Glass Menagerie (1945) depicts the life of two women- Amanda Wingfield and her daughter Laura Wingfield. Amanda is the typical Southern belle that suffered a reversal of economic and social fortune, who withdraws from reality into fantasy. Her daughter Laura, the physically and emotionally crippled heroine of the play is a self-less character who does not speak as much of others. She is extra-ordinarily sensitive and delicate; and her cripple isolates herself into her own illusory world with her own glass menagerie. This paper is an attempt to close study the women protagonists in this play and to reveal that they are a combination of a particular personality type. Williams seems to be interested in the personal and psychological aspects of his women. This paper tries to analyse the psyche of these women and prove that they seem to be more complex and complicated than portrayed in the work.

Tennessee Williams’s Misunderstood ‘memory play’: Re-Imagining Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-493
Author(s):  
Ramón Espejo Romero
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

Abstract Tennessee Williams famously called The Glass Menagerie a ‘memory play’. This remark has been consistently overlooked or misinterpreted by critics, unleashing a tradition of approaching the play in a rather confusing fashion concerning who the characters are and how the playwright uses them. This paper engages with the character of Amanda. First of all, I will trace major transformations in the conception of characters throughout twentieth-century drama, providing background for Williams’s attempt to redefine major aspects of a playwright’s craft such as what a ‘character’ is. Secondly, I will survey a critical tradition surrounding Tom Wingfield’s mother and consider major views concerning the character. Recurrent in them, as my analysis indicates, is the failure to acknowledge her as a tool for the ‘memory work’ Tom carries out. The character is subsequently posited as a fluid entity that helps Tom (and Williams) make sense of the past and explore how their families shaped who they were. As opposed to a realistic play, where so much is given at the start, a ‘memory play’, as Williams seems to have conceived it, remains a cry for the reader to join the playwright in a common search for meaning, one that utilizes, rather than just displays, characters in order to reach standpoints that are far from fixed and immutable.

scholarly journals Fantasmas no palco: Dancing at Lughnasa e o Teatro de Memória de Friel

2018 ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel Rios de Carvalho Viana
Keyword(s):  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

É característica marcante da obra do dramaturgo irlandês Brian Friel a representação da memória no palco. Dancing at Lughnasa é uma de suas peças classificada pelos críticos como uma “peça de memória” por apresentar, assim como a peça The Glass Menagerie de Tennessee Williams, um narrador-personagem que narra eventos de seu passado. Porém, a relação dessa peça de Friel com a memória vai muito além da mera temática e passa a ser o procedimento e a forma do dramaturgo de fazer teatro à memória do próprio teatro, recuperando suas origens nos rituais e na tragédia e relendo elementos marcantes da fundação do Teatro Literário Irlandês. Partindo da ideia do “fantasmático” no teatro desenvolvida por Carlson, o objetivo desse artigo é detectar alguns dos “fantasmas” presentes no texto de Friel, mostrando o caráter metateatral da peça e de que forma Friel faz do seu teatro um Teatro de Memória.

scholarly journals The construction and the representation of the mother figure in the film production of Tennessee Williams: Typology and case studies | A construção e a representação da figura da mãe na produção do filme de Tennessee Williams: tipologia e estudos de caso

Pós-Limiar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Valeriano Durán Manso
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Mother Figure ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
Social Conservatism ◽  
The Rose

The maternal figure has an important presence in the literary and film works of the American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911–1983). This writer, who grew up in a southern environment marked by the religion and social conservatism, had in his own family a source of inspiration to build their characters. In this sense, the influence of his mother, the absence of his father and his sister’s disability, were determinants for the author to develop a special sensitivity to understand personal relationships. The person who exerted a great influence on his development was his mother, Edwina, who was first portrayed in “The Glass Menagerie”, and, subsequently, reflected his character and personality traits that were evident in some of his major works and adaptations. With the aim of reflecting on the important influence of Williams’ mother for the development and representation of their mothers in fiction, the aim of this article was to propose a typology of the parent that are present in his work. To do this, and with reference to Edwina, the article addresses mother-protagonists of some of his most relevant film adaptations, which were adapted in Hollywood between 1950 and 1968, such as “The Rose Tattoo” of Daniel Mann of the year of 1955, “Suddenly, Last Summer” of Joseph L. Mankiewicz of the year of 1959, and “This Property Is Condemned” of Sydney Pollack of the year of 1966, the latter being one of the most important film adaptations of the playwright.

scholarly journals DEVERES E QUERERES: CONFLITOS TRÁGICOS EM 'FILOCTETES' E 'O ZOOLÓGICO DE VIDRO' | DUTIES AND DESIRES: TRAGIC CONFLICTS IN 'PHILOCTETES' AND 'THE GLASS MENAGERIE'

2016 ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Carolina De Pinho Santoro Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

<p>O objetivo deste trabalho é explorar a permanência de elementos trágicos no teatro contemporâneo, tendo como base as obras <em>Filoctetes</em>, de Sófocles, e <em>O zoológico de vidro</em>, de Tennessee Williams. Embora a produção da tragédia grega tenha se limitado a um curto período da Antiguidade clássica, elementos dessa forma artística ainda perduram e têm influenciado obras teatrais de diversos lugares até os dias de hoje. As duas peças analisadas compartilham a temática de um dilema ético, retratando um conflito entre a vontade e o dever que se reflete nos embates entre os personagens. </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong><em> </em><em>This article explores the permanence of tragic elements in contemporary drama by focussing on Sophocles's </em>Philoctetes<em> and Tennessee Williams's </em>The Glass Menagerie<em>. Although the production of Greek tragedies was limited to a short period of classical antiquity, some elements of this artistic form endure and have influenced drama in various places up until the current day. Both plays thematize an ethical dilemma by portraying a conflict between one's will and one’s sense of duty, which is reflected in the verbal disputes between characters</em>.</p>

scholarly journals Marketing Improvement of Chinese Original Picture Books From Dissatisfaction Evaluation - Text Mining Based on LDA Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Ziyan Tang ◽  
Wen Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Original Picture ◽  
Picture Content

Chinese original picture books play an important role in inheriting traditional culture and forming cultural identity, which is very important for children. We analyzes the dissatisfaction evaluation of Chinese original picture books by using the topic model of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). It is found that the dissatisfaction of consumers mainly focuses on smell, AR function, preaching, quality, picture, content, painting style and so on. In the future, we should take quality as the bottom line, focus on the content creation, and carry out integrated marketing through social media.

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