The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
In act one when the stage manager pulls Mr. Webb out of the play to talk with him on page 528, the lady in the box asks "Oh Mr. Webb? Mr. Webb is there any culture or love of beauty in Grover's Corners?". Mr. Webb her, there isn't much culture the way she might think, but "... we've got a lot of pleasures of a kind here: We like the sun comin' up over the mountain in the morning, and we all notice a good deal about the birds. We pay a lot of attention to them. And we watch the change of the seasons..." These are the things that the people of Grover's Corners appreciate, the things we take for granted.
Also in act one, after the choir rehearsal on page 532, Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs are gossiping about the town drunk. Dr. Gibbs says "I guess I know more about Simon Stimson's affairs than anybody in this town. Some people ain't made for small-town life. I don't know how that'll end; but there's nothing we can do but leave it alone." This shows that there is always someone that has things worse than you do.
At the very beginning of act two when the stage manager tells that three years have gone by, but nothing has really changed, and the cycle continues. In act three at the beginning on page 547, the stage manager tells that nine years have gone by. "Gradual changes in Grover's Corners." He then tells how horses are being replaced by Fords, and that people lock their doors now at night. Then he says, "You'd be surprised, though—on the whole, things don't change much around here." Again this indicates the endless cycle.
My idea of the theme of the play doesn't differ all that much from Wilder's theme. My idea of the theme only adds to Wilder's theme.
Many characters in this play have trust in each other. They trust each other with their lives, resulting in the death of many people. Loyalty is the final theme that is evident in this play. There are people who are loyal, and then there are people who are not loyal. The actions that these different characters make create a multitude of themes.
In conclusion, the story describes that life changes, and nothing stays the same throughout it. It is in the hands of the people to decide that how they want their life to be. They can make it as beautiful as they want to and they can also make it worse than it has ever been
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I think the playwright hopes to teach people that money isn?t everything and that people who are arrogant and selfish will get their comeuppances eventually. The moral of the play still, applies to today?s society because it makes us think about the things we do that involve ignoring people less fortunate than us when we realise that there are Eva Smiths all around us just waiting for a chance to make it through the cruel world we live in.
...of the characters’ lives as their motivation affects what they do. The play’s overall theme of manipulation for personal gain as well as general control transmits to me clearly that we are not in control, of the events that happen to us. In spite of that revelation we are in control of the way in which we react to the circumstances in our lives. Hence, no human fully grasps the capabilities to control the way we act. We simply allow certain circumstances to overpower us and dictate our actions. Ultimately, I learned that we are our actions and consequently we should acknowledge the accountability that is implied when we act a certain way. Instead of blaming others for the mistakes we make, we should understand that we have the control as much as the power to make our own decisions rather than giving that ability someone else.
This is done in order to help connect Grover's Corners to our own town, stressing the importance of the relatability the play must convey. The audience asks questions such as, “Is there much drinking in Grover’s Corners?[...]I there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?[...] Oh, Mr. Webb? Mr. Webb, is there any culture or love of beauty in Grover’s Corners?” (24-26). Craftily without the audience knowing, Wilder has just made the audience share what they thought was important in life. However, it wasn’t the materialistic things that were mentioned. It was the big ideas, the ideas that inspire people to innovate, and create new things on a daily basis. Wilder does this so later on when this will be recalled, we understand what we find in life that is meaningful and worth appreciating, not the materialistic aspects but the ideas that inspired us from the
1, scene 5 is an essential scene in the play. The main two themes are
not one of character, but one of attitude. At the end of the play, we find
The theme of this book is that the human capacity to adapt to and find happiness in the most difficult circumstances. Each character in the novel shows this in their way. For instance, their family is randomly taken from their home and forced to work but they still remain a close nit family. In addition, they even manage to stick together after being separated for one of their own. These show how even in the darkest time they still manage to find a glimmer of hope and they pursued on.
One of the ways time’s inevitable passage and the changes it may bring is illustrated in the play is through the shifts in characters as time goes on. Some evidence backing this can be found on pages seven and 49. On page seven as stated by the stage
Wilder breaks the fourth wall, always reminding the audience that they are watching a play. Because the Stage Manager jumps around to different points in time, there is no linear storyline. No plot can form without a linear storyline, and the audience is not given enough information about Simon Stimson for a sub plot to form. There is also no conflict. The Stage Manager tells us all the First Act is about is a day in Grover’s Corners: “The First Act shows a day in our town.” (p. 4). With no conflict, there is no climax or resolution in the following acts. There is a prominent theme woven through the acts. Thornton Wilder uses this play to try and make people think about their place in the world. At the end of Act I, Rebecca tells us about a letter Jane Crofut received from her minister. She says the address written is, “the United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God” 9p. 46). The audience begins seeing the roles of the people in their hometown, but not their roles as people of the world. Wilder uses Emily and George’s interest in each other to give the idea of how their relationship may grow and their lives could change. Their roles in society could be affected by their choices made together. The frequency of the fourth wall being broken is an important part of the structure of the play. The Stage Manager speaks
In each play, the respective playwrights used the setting to effectively enforce certain ideas conveyed by the work. While Wilder accomplishes this through a deliberately constructed artificial world filled with the appearance of life – a pantomime of reality – Fugard enforces the strong emotions and deeply embedded fears of his characters as much through the setting as through their interactions within the setting itself. In a world in which we rely on a recollection of our past through sensory stimuli, and our metaphysical reactions to it, both plays make effective use of setting to more effectively convey the ideas presented in each.
Living in Grover’s Corner can be an eye opener to wanting to modernize and live in the a world where new things happen to help instead of hinder, or it can be a lesson that teaches you how being close and doing things that your family approve can be a good quality in life. The Play “Our Town” lets you see the play in your own point of view. Either you can see living in a small community and not having much privacy as a good quality or you can think that being so close to your neighbors is a bad thing. Either way the play shows us that caring for each other and helping each other out is something you have to work on and become better. The play lets us know as long as we live our life as we want no one can take that from us.
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In this play Everyman makes a point and big emphasis that death is inevitable to every human being. This play is simply in its morality and in its story. You shouldn’t be so keen on all the material things in life and forget the purpose of your life. Your personal pleasures are merely transitory, but the eternal truth of life is that death is imminent and is eternal. It is the bitter truth that everyone has to accept it. If you are born you will die one day. Science does not believe in religion. But one day Science will also end in Religion. Everyone should live their life fearful of God and accept Christ as their Savior.