The glass menagerie Analytical Essay
In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie there are great deals of symbols that are seen throughout the story line. Tennessee Williams made the most important symbol of the story its title. Every character in the play such as Laura and her sister express the escape of reality and wanting to be in the real world and how the glass menagerie can be related to humans today.
Evidence of the importance of the glass menagerie is found in the fact that the author made it the title. The symbol glass represents many things. It represents how fragile things are and how it is considered a sense of beauty. However, the menagerie is a collection, representing variety. The glass menagerie represents how the world has different faces to something.
The protagonist of the play, Laura, is involved on the meaning of the symbol. The glass menagerie gives Laura a meaning of fantasy and escaping reality. Laura’s inner life is very fancy and delicate and she lives in a world where fantasy is the main concern. Unlike her sister, who lives in the real world. Laura has many faces of her personality, which create her character and make her be the protagonist. “ LAURA: Little articles of [glass], they’re ornaments mostly! Most of them are little animals made out of glass, the tiniest little animals in the world.
The Essay on The Glass Menagerie Laura World Williams
Moy 1 Shelly Moy M. Ragan ENG 122 AL November 14, 2002"Outshined Ugliness" Life is a lonely tale of alienation, as Tennessee Williams conveys though his play, "The Glass Menagerie." Williams surrounds Laura in isolation from a world in which they wish to belong to by using various symbols. The symbolic nature of the motifs hidden within the lines of this play provides meaning to the theme found ...
Mother calls them a glass menagerie! Here’s an example of one, if you’d like to see it! . . . Oh, be careful—if you breathe, it breaks! . . . You see how the light shines through him? JIM: It sure does shine! LAURA: I shouldn’t be partial, but he is my favorite one. JIM: What kind of a thing is this one supposed to be? LAURA: Haven’t you noticed the single horn on his forehead? JIM: A unicorn, huh? —aren’t they extinct in the modern world? LAURA: I know! JIM: Poor little fellow, he must feel sort of lonesome.” (Act 2)
As I said before, the main symbol of the story represents how the world has many faces. That is why Laura has the glass menagerie, which expresses her many faces in her personality. We humans can relate to the glass menagerie because we have many facets of our personality that make us up as a person, however it might not be beneficial because we tend to be leaving to a world that we create as perfect and some people might not appreciate that and that is what Laura do.
Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie has been a play that many have read and have made an impact on many people due to its many symbols and definitions that the play itself expresses. It has made a big impact on the world of literature too.
