Brighton Beach Memoirs Family’s Struggle Brighton Beach Memoirs is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the pre-World War II age of the "Great Depression". This was a time of great hardship where pain and suffering were eminent. In this play, Neil Simon gives us a painfully realistic view of life during the late 1930s. The setting takes place in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, in the fall of 1937. It is a lower-income area inhabited by mostly Jews, Irish, and Germans
novels on novels. Comparing and Contrasting two books allows us to get a deeper analysis, and a new level of understanding. There were two such books that touched my heart. The novel is Candide by the amazing, wittful Voltaire, and the play is Brighton Beach Memoirs by Pulitzer Prize-winning Neil Simon. They both are similar yet different and unique in their own way. Though they are centuries apart, they have the same charm. After reading them, the mind can only ponder upon thoughts. Reading Candide
Generational Differences The films The Jazz Singer and Brighton Beach Memoirs have a different sense of Jewish values. The two films are in two different decades, the ‘20’s and ‘30’s respectively, so the biggest difference is going to be the generation, where in The Jazz Singer there were mostly immigrants, and in Brighton Beach Memoirs there were second generation immigrants. From this, it is determined that the first generation Jewish immigrants was focused on being Jewish while also successful
Playwrights Christopher Durang and Neil Simon parody Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire in their respective plays, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls and Brighton Beach Memoirs. The plays by Durang and Simon were transformed enough that they “pose little risk” to Williams’s plays (Preska). Durang’s play, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls transforms the characters of The Glass Menagerie; Durang changes the names and sexes of half of the characters while completely
are four major sub-divisions in the LMA which are body, effort, shape and space (BESS)(Adrian 2008). The following academic review will analyse the body, effort, shape and space and then apply it to my character, Nora, and her monologue from Brighton Beach Memoirs. Body: The body is the first concept of Laban’s four components of movement. Body can be defined as the human body and its characteristics both physical and structural as well as the body’s coordination’s and reflexes. (Longstaff 2007) The