Our Town was Thornton Wilder’s most influential drama which had been widely performed in theaters and enjoyed constant popularity over the past eighty years.In Our Town,the scenes of female characters doing housework...Our Town was Thornton Wilder’s most influential drama which had been widely performed in theaters and enjoyed constant popularity over the past eighty years.In Our Town,the scenes of female characters doing housework and having daily chatting took a large part of the play.Firstly,the three major female characters in Our Town were depicted as traditional housewives who were devoted and confined to their families.Their personal dreams had all fallen through due to social conventions and the unrequited love to their families.As the story went on,unfortunate fates seized those weak females and left them miserable endings.Although gender stereotype is observed in the play,from the elaborate carving of female images,readers can still see Wilder’s special care for female characters.He made them the critical narrators of the story and let them tell the truth of human life.Plain though those housewives in Our Town were,they never failed to touch the audience and reveal the profound theme.展开更多
Thornton Wilder＇s works are often characterized as transcending time. Our Town （1938） remains a widely produced piece of dramatic literature nearly 75 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. However, many o...Thornton Wilder＇s works are often characterized as transcending time. Our Town （1938） remains a widely produced piece of dramatic literature nearly 75 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. However, many of Wilder＇s one-act plays are less well-known and subsequently are less often produced. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden （193 l） predates Our Town （1938） and yet is written in a similar style, utilizes the stage manager motif, and reflects upon issues of life and death found in Our Town （1938）, The Bridges of San Luis Rey （1927） and many other of Wilder＇s works. ＂Sojourners in Time＂ reflects upon the time period and place in Wilder＇s one-acts within the context of a contemporary journey in order to determine what, if any, aspects of this piece translate to current times.展开更多
文摘Our Town was Thornton Wilder’s most influential drama which had been widely performed in theaters and enjoyed constant popularity over the past eighty years.In Our Town,the scenes of female characters doing housework and having daily chatting took a large part of the play.Firstly,the three major female characters in Our Town were depicted as traditional housewives who were devoted and confined to their families.Their personal dreams had all fallen through due to social conventions and the unrequited love to their families.As the story went on,unfortunate fates seized those weak females and left them miserable endings.Although gender stereotype is observed in the play,from the elaborate carving of female images,readers can still see Wilder’s special care for female characters.He made them the critical narrators of the story and let them tell the truth of human life.Plain though those housewives in Our Town were,they never failed to touch the audience and reveal the profound theme.
文摘Thornton Wilder＇s works are often characterized as transcending time. Our Town （1938） remains a widely produced piece of dramatic literature nearly 75 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. However, many of Wilder＇s one-act plays are less well-known and subsequently are less often produced. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden （193 l） predates Our Town （1938） and yet is written in a similar style, utilizes the stage manager motif, and reflects upon issues of life and death found in Our Town （1938）, The Bridges of San Luis Rey （1927） and many other of Wilder＇s works. ＂Sojourners in Time＂ reflects upon the time period and place in Wilder＇s one-acts within the context of a contemporary journey in order to determine what, if any, aspects of this piece translate to current times.
