The lighting, music, costumes, props and movement of the actors are not necessary for the development of the play's characters or theme. In Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie , however, stage directions are essential to the understanding of the play. Detailed stage directions intensify the unrealistic setting, foreshadow and emphasize events, and develop the characters. Dim colored lighting and symbolic melodies create the unrealistic setting for the memory play. In his opening narration Tom says, "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic.
In memory everything seems to happen to music. That explains the fiddle in the wings" Throughout the play the stage directions call for "a turgid smokey red glow," "gloomy gray" lighting and "deep blue dusk" which create the hazy images of a memory.
For a short while, as Jim enters, there is a "delicate lemony light" , and a soft light from the new lamp brings out Laura's "unearthly prettiness" Yet, at the end of the play, and throughout its majority, the set is grim, characteristic of Tom's sad memory. Music in the play can be symbolic or simply add to the emotion of a scene. In scene four, "Ave Maria" plays softly in the background, symbolizing Amanda's duties as a mother. Throughout the play, music swells and recedes with the rising and falling of the characters' emotions.
For example, as Tom is confronting his mother with the reality of his sister's handicap, "the music changes to a tango that has a minor and somewhat ominous tone" Describing characters' appearances and presenting messages upon the screen, the stage directions foreshadow and emphasize events. The point of view of the older Tom is reflective, and he warns us that his memory distorts the past. The younger Tom is impulsive and angry.
The older Tom speaks in the past tense about his recollections, and the younger Tom takes part in a play that occurs in the present tense. When Amanda discovers that Jim is engaged, she loses her hope that Laura will attain the popularity and social standing that Amanda herself has lost.
Addressing the audience, Tom explains that not long after that incident he left his family but was never able to emotionally leave Laura behind—in his later travels, he frequently felt a connection to her. Louis and New York. The gloomy chilling lighting within the scene was central to the idea of darkness, this again was the opposite of our first introduction to the character Sam where he is lit glowingly.
The dynamic of the lighting and the music used aided to establish the eeriness capturing the attention of the audience. In addition the lack of sound created an almost ghostly effect around the theatre. Then again the absurd racism and dreadful story of abuse and terror throughout the play is at least scandalous. The continuing theme of racism and the terror that they face is something I feel that we can all learn from.
In Tom's opening speech he says, "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. The characters in this play all are constantly trying to find their happy place, attempting to escape into an imaginary fantasy world. In The Glass Menagerie Williams' fire escape portrays each of the character's need to escape the thoughts and reality that torments them each and every….
Reading this play gives us an idea of, how society was subjected during those days, what kind of social norms dictated American society and what were the class status justification for majority and in what ways different classes emerged; Tennessee Williams wrote this play in such a way that audience can connect themselves from social condition and feel that emotional instability within the society that time.
This story has a specific magnitude of factual seriousness, with violence as one major noticeable element, which gives a feeling of extreme tragedy and makes the story more realistic. Domestic violence was a common and not much discussed prospect of the society until when it was declared illegal. Now, one of the main ways his guilt affects him is in sleep, where through vision and hallucination, the anguish he experiences may defeat him.
Shakespeare persistently uses sleep to show how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth still bear the ramifications of their crimes, as a period where human feeling is exposed. This contributes to the theme in the play that things are not always as they seem, and sleep makes Macbeth and his wife vulnerable to their wrongdoings culminating in an….
Williams has managed to create a momentous play symbolism. Williams uses symbolism to reveal, in depth, character attributes and what they represent.
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