Glass animal brief content. Analysis of the play of Tennessee Williams "Glass Zodnets

This play is more reminiscent of memories. In it, Tom Wingfield talks about those times when he lived in St. Louis with his mother, Amanda Wingfield. This time was soldered just for a break between two wars. Tom's mother was endowed with huge vitality. His sister lived with them, Laura. Sister was a dreamer. As a child, she suffered a very serious illness, as a result of which one leg remained shorter than another. Tom, in the soul, was a real poet. He worked in a shoe shop where he was very suffering. He was forced to do business, which he hated. After work, he listened to his mother's stories about life in the south, about many victories that were valid and imaginary.

Amanda with great impatience awaits the success of favorite children. She wants Laura successfully married, and the volume has come across a career ladder. She simply does not want to notice how he hates her work volume, and as an unloved daughter. Mother tried to arrange a laure on machinery courses, but an attempt was doomed to failure. From the excitement and fear of the daughter begin to shake hands. With such a disadvantage, it is simply impossible to engage in typewritten. Laura is good only at home, where she plays with their glass amers. After failure at the Amanda courses even more hope for a successful marriage of his daughter. At the same time, the mother is trying to follow the reading of the Son. She thinks that the son reads too vulgar novels. She also considers it strange that the Son is holding a movie every evening. In fact, these trips make a day for him less monotonous, more colorful.

Once, Tom promises to bring home a decent man and introduce him to Laura. A few days later, he brings home Jim about "Conoram, a colleague, the only man in the shop with whom he was in friendly relations. As a child, Laura and Jim studied at the same school. The young man was quite surprised to find out the fact that Laura's wife Toma. Laura was in love at school age in love. He was always in the center of attention: I played basketball quite well, sang in school posts, led the discussion club. Seeing Jim, Laura was just shocked. Fuck him his hand, she almost lost consciousness. Jim did not immediately recognize the girl, she had to remind him that they were already familiar for a long time. With great difficulty, a young man remembered that he gave the laure of a nickname Blue Rose. Jim did not sing so much, as he promised at school. But, yet , does not lose confidence, builds various plans for the future. Laura is gradually stops nervous, begins to communicate with Jim as a long-time friend.

Jim sees that the girl is very closed in himself. He tries to help her every way, convincing that her chromoty is almost imperceptible. Nobody noticed at school that she wore special shoes. Jim explains the laure that people are not such custody and evil, you just need to look at the person. He believes that the main problem of the girl is what she considers himself worse than everyone. Laura shows his collection of glass beasts. This, for her, means the highest degree of trust.

Laura begins to ask about a girl with whom Jim met at school. There were rumors that they were engaged. Having learned that all this is just a rumor, Laura seemed to bloom. A little hope appeared in her soul.

The waltz from the next cafe is heard through the house window. Jim invites Laura to dance. It refuses, the reason calls what can spread the leg. Jim laughing says: "I'm not glass." Dancing, they stumbled upon a wooden table, where glass figures stood. With her fell her favorite unicorn. He was fighting horn. Now he does not differ from other animals. Of this twisted Edinoroga Laura gives Jim as a memory of this beautiful evening. After dance, Jim said the laure that she is a very beautiful girl that such as she meets one by a million, then kisses her. Seeing that the girl did not understand everything, Jim reports that he has a bride. Laura was very upset. Jim begins to calm them all sorts of American banalities of the type: "The person is building his fate," and the like. The room includes Amanda, who thinks that the fiance is already on the hook, but Jim will clarify. Jim needs to rush, because he must meet the bride at the station. Not having time to spare and leave, the mother is attacked with a scandal on Tom. The son was angry, threw his job, and went to wander.

The epilogue says that Tom will never be able to forget his sister, he was always and will be devoted to her. Tom loves Laura, and was in deep sorrow, when I realized that, perhaps, never sees it anymore.
The summary of the play "Glass Zodnets" retold Osipova A.S.

We draw your attention that this is only a brief content of the literary work "Glass Zodnets". In this summary content, many important points and quotes are missed.

Situation: Alley in Sant Louis.

Part One: Waiting for the Visizer.

Part Two: Visitor comes.

Time: Now and in the past.

CHARACTERS

Amanda Wingfield (Mother)

A little woman is a huge, but erratic vitality, frantically clinging at another time and place. Its role should be carefully created, and not copied with a well-established sample. It is not paranoid, but her life is solid paranoia. It can be admired in it; It is largely ridiculous, but it can be loved and regret. Of course, its durability is akin to heroism, and although sometimes her stupidity involuntarily makes her cruel, tenderness is always visible in her weak soul.

Laura Wingfield (her daughter)

Whereas Amanda, not finding contact with reality, continues to live in the world of his illusions, the position of Laura is even harder. As a result of the disease, in childhood, she remained crippled, one leg is somewhat shorter than another, and a bracelet will be put on her. On the scene, this defect is just enough to contourly designate. As a result, the alienation of Laura achieves that limit when she, like a glass from his collection, becomes too fragile to live outside the shelf.

Tom Wingfield (her son)

As well as a narrator play. Poet working in the store. By nature, he is not insensitive, but to get out of the Western, he is forced to act without pity.

Jim about "Connor (Visitor)

Ordinary pleasant young man.

Comments to the formulation

Being a "play-memory", a glass beast can be represented with a wide freedom of execution. Situational sketchs and subtleties of the direction play a particularly important role due to the extreme delicacy and insignificance of the narrative content itself. Expressionism and all other non-traditional dramaturgical techniques have their sole purpose of approaching the truth. The use of unconventional techniques in the play does not mean yet, or at least should not mean an attempt to free themselves from the obligations of interaction with reality or interpretation of experience. Rather, it is, or must be the effort to detect a closer approach, a more penetrating and living expression of the things themselves. The play is not clearly realistic, with a genuine frehydar and real ice, the characters who speak exactly, as the public speaks, corresponds to the academic landscape and have the same dignity as the picture. Nowadays, everyone should understand the non-profitability of photographic in art: the fact that life, truth or reality is organic concepts that poetic imagination can reproduce or propose in its essence only through the transformation, through the transformation to other forms other than those that are found in the phenomenon .

These comments were not prepared as a preface only to this particular play. They concern the idea of \u200b\u200ba new plastic theater, which must change the exhausted theater of realistic traditions, unless, of course, the theater must again gain his vitality as part of our culture.

Screen device. There is only one essential difference between the original and staged versions of the play. This is the absence in the last device, which I turned on as an experiment in the primary text. The device consisted of the screen to which slides with images or headlines was projected. I do not regret that this device was seized from the original production on Broadway. The emergency force of execution pertaining to Miss Taylor allowed the limit to simplify the material filling of the play. But I think that some readers will be interested to know how this device was conceived. That is why I apply these comments to the published text. Images and inscriptions projected on the back of the back, fell onto a part of the wall between the front room and the dining room, which was not much different from other premises when it was not used for its intended purpose.

Their appointment is quite obvious - emphasize certain values \u200b\u200bin each scene. In each scene, some thought (or thought) is structurally the most significant. The main structure or thread of the narrative can easily escape the attention of the audience in such an episodic play as this; The content may seem fragmentary with a lack of architectural integrity. However, this is not so much the lack of the play itself, as not enough attentive perception of the viewer. Inscription Go The image appearing on the screen should strengthen the content that implicitly presents the text, and allow to allocate the main idea easier and easier than if all the sense load lay only on the heroes replicas. In addition to structural purposes, the screen, I think will make a positive emotional element, which is difficult to determine, but the role of which is no less important.

Producer or director with imagination will always be able to find another use of this device, in addition to those that were mentioned in this article. In fact, the possibilities of the device itself are much more extensive than the possibilities for its use in this particular play.

MUSIC. Another extralectric focusing in the play is music. The only repeating melody, the "glass beast" appears in certain points of the play for emotional gain. As the music of the street circus, it appears in the distance, when you, being away from the passing orchestra, most likely think about something else. In such a situation, it seems that it continues almost continuously, then inserting, then disappearing from the absorbed consciousness; This is the easiest and most gentle music in the world and perhaps the most sad. It reflects the surface brightness of life, but with a touch of unchanged and inexpressible sadness lying in its foundation. When you look at an elegant glass product, two things come to mind: how it is beautiful and how it can be crashing. Both of these ideas should be woven into a repeating melody, which appears, it disappears from the play, as if it brings a non-permanent wind. It is a binder thread and the ratio between the narrator with its separate place in time and space, and the heroes of his story. It appears between episodes as a return to mental experiences and nostalgia - the determining conditions of the entire play. Mainly, this is Music Laura, and therefore the melody acts most clearly when attention focuses on it and on the beautiful fragility of glass, its pre-edge.

Peru of an outstanding American playwright and prosaika, laureate of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize Tennessee Williams (full name - Thomas Lanir (Tennessee) Williams III) belongs to the glass "Glass Zelenets" (The Glass Menagerie).

At the time of writing this work, the author was quite young - he was 33 years old. The play was delivered to Chicago in 1944 and had a loud success. Reviews of "Glass Zelers" Tennessee Williams were so numerous that the author quickly became famous. It served him a good springboard for the start of a successful writing career.

Very soon the replicas of the heroes of the "glasswar" already ate already in the theater on Broadway, and, having received the New York Cruise Award of the Theater Critics "For the Best Plastic of the Season", the play began to be considered a hit.

The further fate of this work has also developed successfully - many times it went on theatrical layouts and was shielded.

The article presents a summary of the "Glass Wizard" Williams and the analysis of the plays.

Subject

This work is not accidental marked by the author as a "play-memory", that is, it is partly written on an autobiographical material. It can be said that the Wingfield family "written out" with his own family of playwright in which he grown. Among the characters there is a mother susceptible to the frenches of anger, and a sister with depression, and even missing, but as if invisibly affecting the fate of the main character, father.

Illusions or reality - what is more important? To understand this chief hero will have to make your choice. The existential theme of the uniqueness of each human being is one of the main in the play.

At the same time, according to the reviews of the "glass zerin" Tennessee Williams of modern critics, the material from an emotional point of view is still submitted not with such a force as in the subsequent works of the playwright. In essence, this is only the first, rather timid attempt.

Name play

The author called the collection of figures that Sister Hero Laura collects the collection of figurines. According to Williams, these few glass figures were to symbolize fragility, toyness, illusion of life in which characters live, family members of Wingfield.

The mother and sister are so good "hidden" in this glass world, are absorbed by them that they themselves, indulging in self-deception, become unreal, and have no desire to think about the goals and objectives that reality poses.

"Glass Walniec" like a play experiment

So, the play is called the play-memories. In the summary of the "glass bell" we mention the admission word of the narrator. He says that the memories are an unstable thing, everyone has their own, therefore some kind of scenic embodiment must be muffled depending on its significance for recalling, and some, on the contrary, filed bright and convex. To highlight the importance of individual memories, the author at the beginning of the play explained what means can reach this artistic problem.

From the point of view of the text material of the play "Glass Zodnets" contains many remarks, which is uncharacteristic for a conventional dramatic work.

The designation of time is also unusual: "Now in the past." It is understood that the monologue is noticed by the narrator at present and talks about the past.

Visual number

On stage, according to Tennessee Williams, a screen should be set to which a special lantern will project various images and inscriptions. Actions should accompany the "Single Repeating Melody". This is the so-called end-to-end music that serves for the emotional strengthening of what is happening.

To emphasize the events on the hero, which is on the stage, a beam of light should fall. If the characters are somewhat, the light spot will be allocated that whose emotional voltage is stronger.

All these violations of the tradition, according to Williams, should prepare the emergence of a new plastic theater,

Which must change the exhausted theater of realistic traditions.

The main character

Tom Wingfield, the protagonist and the "narrator of the play" is

Poet working in the store. By nature, he is not insensitive, but to get out of the Western, he is forced to act without pity.

The hero lives in the city of Saint Louis and works in the company "Continental shoes." Its works this work. Most of all in the world would dream of throwing everything and go as far as possible. There, far, he would heal his life, engaged only by writing poems. But this idea is impossible to implement: he has to earn to keep the mother and sister-disabled. After all, after a father left them, Tom became the only breadwinner of the family.

To forget from the gulling dreary daily, the hero often spends time in cinemas and reading books. These classes his mother exposes tough criticism.

Other actors

In the play, except Tom Wingfield, only four characters. It:

• Amanda Wingfield (his mother).
• Laura (his sister).
• The meaningful person for the development of the plot is Jim about "Connor, Vizier, familiar Toma.

We give the characteristics of these characters, according to the text of the play and the remarks of the author himself.

Laura, Sister Toma. Because of the disease, the girl's feet became different lengths, so she awkwardly feels in the society of outsiders. Her hobby is a glass collection of figures located on the shelf in her room. Only among them is not so alone.

A little woman is a huge, but erratic vitality, frantically clinging at another time and place. Its role should be carefully created, and not copied with a well-established sample. It is not paranoid, but her life is solid paranoia. It can be admired in it; It is largely ridiculous, but it can be loved and regret. Of course, its durability is akin to heroism, and although sometimes her stupidity involuntarily makes her cruel, tenderness is always visible in her weak soul.

The latter and inaccessible character himself the narrator calls the Father - in the photo. Once he left the family "for fantastic adventures."

She is called "Waiting for Visizers."

The narrative leads the volume that appears and moves along the stage towards the fire exit. He says that his story turns his time to reverse, and his speech will go about America of the 30s.

The play begins in the living room of the apartment, where Tom lives with mother and sister. Mother looks forward to that the son is about to build his career in a shoe company, and the daughter will profitably marry. She does not want to see that Laura Nerudum is not going to look for love, and Tom hates her work. True, the mother tried to attach the daughter to the courses of car painting, but this work turned out to be Lore could not.

Then the mother turned his dreams to a good marriage and asked Toma to introduce Laura with a decent young man. He invites Jim about "Connor, his colleague and a sole buddy.

The second part of

Laura will immediately recognize Jim - she remembers him still at school. Once she was in love with him. He played basketball and sang in school productions. Until now, she keeps his photo.

And shaking the hand of Jim at a meeting, the girl is so embarrassed that runs away into his room.

Under the faithful pretext of Amanda sends Jim into the room to his daughter. There Laura is recognized as a young man that they have long known. And Jim, who had completely forgotten about this strange girl, which was once called a blue rose, recalls her. Thanks to the goodwill and charm of Jim, the conversation is tied between them. Jim sees how embarrassing girl and how she is compacted, and trying to convince her that her chromoty is completely imperceptible. Do not think that it is worse than all.

We note in the summary of the "glasswear" Tennessee Williams culmination of the play: a timby hope appears in the heart of Laura. Trusting her, the girl shows Gima his treasures - glass figures, standing on the shelf.

The sounds of the restaurant opposite the sounds of Waltz, Jim invites Laura to dance, and young people are accepted to dance. Jim tells Lore compliments and kisses her. They hurt one of the figures, it falls - this is a glass unicorn, and now his horn is bite. The narrator emphasizes the symbolism of this loss - from the mythical character, the unicorn turned into an ordinary horse, one of many in the collection.

However, seeing that Laura was fascinated by him, Jim was afraid of her reaction and, in a hurry to leave, tells the girl capital truths - that everything will be fine, you just need to believe it and so on. The sad, deceived in his dreams, the girl gives him a unicorn - in memory of this evening.

The final

Amanda appears. All of her kind radiates confidence that the groom for Laura is found, and the matter is almost on ointment. However, Jim informing that he needed to rush to meet the bride at the station, he was spoken. In the summary of the "Glass Warring" Williams, I would especially note the ability of Amanda to restrain my emotions: smiling, she escorts Jim and closes the door behind him. And only after that gives the will of emotions and, having risen, throws on the son with reproach, which, they say, to which there were lunch and such spending, if the candidate is busy, etc. But the volume is not less. The charter is constantly listening to the reproach of the mother, he also shouts at her and runs away.

Sleptly, as if through the glass, the viewer sees how Amanda consists daughter. In the appearance of the mother

Stupidity disappears, and dignity and tragic beauty appear.

And Laura, looking at her, blows the candles. So the play is over.

Epilogue

Conducting a summary of Williams "Glass Zvernets" play, it is necessary to note the importance of the final scene. In it, the narrator reports that soon after that he was fired from work - for the poem, which he wrote on a shoe box. And Tom went from St. Louis and started in a wander.

When analyzing the play, W. Tennessee "Glass Zodnets" should be noted that Tom comes exactly like his father. That is why at the beginning of the play he appears in front of the audience in the form of a sailor of a merchant ship.

Still, the past in the form of the sister pursues him:

Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind; I am faithful to you more than I wish!

His imagination for once draws him the image of the sister, strangling the candle: "WILL BRAIN HAVE, Laura - and goodbye," says Tom with sadness.

We have led the analysis, summary and reviews of the "Glass Zelers" Tennessee Williams.

Tennessee Williams

Glass Zelenets

The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams (1944)

Characters

Amanda Wengfield. - mother. This little woman has a huge vitality, but does not know how to live and desperately cling to the past and distant. The actress must carefully create a character, and not be content with the finished type. It is not a paranoid, but her life is a solid paranoia. In Amanda, a lot of attractive and much funny, you can love and regret. She is undoubtedly characteristic of long-suffering, she is even capable of a kind of heroism, and although at some time it is sometimes cruel, tenderness lives in her soul.

Laura Wengfield. - daughter. I failed to establish contact with reality, Amanda is the stronger the illusions. The position of the laur is much more serious. In childhood, she suffered severe illness: one leg is slightly shorter than the other and requires special shoes - on stage this deficiency should be barely noticeable. From here - its growing isolation, so in the end she herself becomes a glass figure in its collection and cannot leave the shelf due to excessive fragility.

Tom Wingfield - the son of Amanda and the presenter in the play. The poet who serves in the shop. His conscience is gnawing, but he is forced to do ruthlessly - otherwise not to break out of the Western.

Jim about "Connor - the guest. Cute and ordinary young man.

Scene - street in St. Louis.

Time of action - Now and then.

I have not seen the thin hands of such even in the rain ...

E. E. Kammings.

The "glass beast" is a play-memory, so it is possible to put it with a significant degree of rims in relation to the methods adopted. Thin, the fragile material of it must necessarily imply a skillful director and the creation of an appropriate atmosphere. Expressionism and other conditional technique in the drama pursues a single goal - as close as possible to come true. When the playwright uses conditional equipment, he does not try at all, in any case, should not do this - to take off the duty to deal with reality, explain human experience; On the contrary, he strives or should strive to find a way as true, penetrating and brighter to express life as it is. A traditional realistic play with a real fridge and pieces of ice, with characters who are expressing the same as the viewer explicitly, is the same as the landscape in academic painting, and has the same dubious advantage - photographic similarity. Now, perhaps, everyone already knows that photographic similarity does not play an important role in art, which is true, life - in a word, reality - are a single whole, and the poetic imagination can show this reality or to catch its essential features, not otherwise, as transforming external The appearance of things.

These notes are not just a preface to this play. They put forward the concept of a new, plastic theater, which should come to replace the external affected means, if we want the theater, as part of our culture, again gained vitality.

Screen. There is only one significant difference between the initial text of the play and its stage editors: in the latter there is no fact that I did in the original order in the original. I mean the screen for which the image and inscriptions are projected using a magic lantern. I am not sorry that the screen is not used in Broadway now. The striking mastery of Miss Taylor allowed to limit themselves in the play as simple as the simplest accessories. However, I think some of the readers will be interested to know how the thought is about the screen. Therefore, I restore this reception in the published text. The image and inscriptions are projected from the magic lamp, located behind the scenes, on the part of the partition between the front room and the dining room: during the rest of the time this part should not stand out.

The purpose of the use of the screen, I suppose is obvious - to emphasize the significance of this or that episode. Each scene has a moment or moments that are most important in composite terms. In the play consisting of individual episodes, in particular in the "glass zerin", the composition or storyline can sometimes escape from the audience, and then the impression of fragments will appear, and not strict architectonics. And the case may not be so much in the play itself, as in the lack of attention from the audience. The inscription or image on the screen will strengthen the hint of the text, will help you easily convey the desired thought enclosed in replica. I think that in addition to the composite screen function, its emotional impact is important. Any director with imagination can independently find convenient moments to use the screen, and not limited to the instructions in the text. It seems to me that the possibilities of this stage remedy are much wider than those used in this play.

Music. Another extralectric agent that is used in the play is music. Non-end-to-end melody of "Glass Warring" emotionally emphasizes the corresponding episodes. You will hear such a melody in the circus, but not in the arena, not with the solemn march of artists, but in the distance and when you think about something else. Then she seems endless, it disappears, it sounds again in the head, occupied by some thoughts, is the smallest, most tender and, perhaps, the sad tune in the world. It expresses visible ease of life, but the note in it is inevitable, inexpressible sorrow. When you look at a trunk of thin glass, you think it is charming and how easy it is to break. So with this endless melody - she arises in the play, then again subsides, as if he carries it with a changed breeze. She seems to be a thread that leads the lead - he lives his life in time and space - and his story. It arises between scenes as a memory, as regretful about the already, without which there is no play. This melody belongs mainly to the laure and therefore it sounds particularly clear when the action focuses on it and on elegant fragile figures, which, as if embodying her.

Lighting. Lighting in the plain play. The scene is seen as if in the smoke of memories. The ray of light suddenly falls on the actor or for some subject, leaving in the shade of what seems to seem to the center of action. For example, Laura does not participate in the quarrel of Tom with Amanda, but it is she who is filled at this moment with clear light. The same applies to the scene of dinner, when the silent figure of the lauri should remain in the center of attention of the viewer on the sofa. The light falling on the laur is distinguished by a special chaste purity and resembles light on antique icons or on Madonn images. In general, in the play, you can widely use such lighting, which we find in religious painting - for example, El Greco, where the figures are glowing on a relatively foggy background. (This will also make it possible to use the screen more efficiently.) Free, based on creative fantasy. The use of light is very valuable, it can give static plays and plasticity.

Picture first

Wingfield live in one of those gigantic multicellular hives, which grow as growths in crowded urban areas inhabited by a poor people from the "middle class", and which characterize the desire of this largest and essentially the most challenging layer of American society to avoid turning, differentiation and preserve the appearance and customs of a homogeneous mechanical mass. It includes the apartment with the alley, through the fire move - in the title of some kind of symbolic truth, because these bulk buildings are constantly covered by a slow flame of the negascinic human despair. Fire move, that is, the actual platform and staircase down, is part of the scenery.

The action of the play is a person's memories, and therefore the situation is unrealistic. The memory of the Welfare, like poetry. She has no matter to some details, but others appear especially convex. It all depends on which emotional szvuk causes an event or an object that the memory will affect; Past is stored in the heart. Therefore, the interior is seen in the foggy poetic haze.

When the curtain rises, the viewer will open a sad back wall of the building, where Wingfield lives. On both sides of the building, which is placed parallel to the ramp, are tested two narrow dark alley; They go deep into, being lost in the midst of the nestled linen ropes, garbage boxes and sinister lattice sticks of neighboring stairs. It is these alleys that the actors on the stage come out or leave it during the action. By the end of the introductory monologue of Tom, the building will begin to gradually shine the interior of the Wingfield Apartment on the first floor.

Relevancestudies are due to the faint of creativity T. Williams and American, and, above all, in domestic literary criticism. The development of this topic makes it possible to reveal the rich moral and ethical potential of the creativity of the playwright. The results of the innovative aspirations of the artist, about which there is a study in the study, are diverse in aesthetic plan and require further theoretical understanding, the successful result of which will enrich our idea of \u200b\u200bthe expressive capabilities of the drama.

Purpose: Analyze the play "Glass Zodnets", to identify ideological and aesthetic features, determine the specifics of the poetics of the play. Based on the goal, you can select the following tasks:

· Consider some biographical information Tuilliams;

· Release the features of the influence of your own life on the worldview and creativity of the playwright.

The name of the American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is one of the brightest in modern American and world literature. Becoming during the lifetime of the legend, he is rightfully considered one of the best playwrights of the twentieth century, whose works were settled for a long time at theatrical stage of the world, continuing to puzzle the director's search for a universal key to them. His dramaturgy combines thin psychologism with a high culture of the word. Heroes of his plays - living with the illusions of romance, noble and vulnerable people - are opposed to coarse, ugly reality, deprived of the opportunity to find happiness and harmony in it, overcome loneliness, but, despite this, who can triumphane a moral victory: knowing that doomed on death in pragmatic Society, they do not reject from their ideals.

Throughout the work of Tennessee, Williams showed a permanent desire for experiment, innovation, passion for expressionist techniques, the active use of the symbol, the overtext began. Thus, he developed the concept of the plastic theater. The manner of the letter of American playwright is characterized by high emotionality and is open to direct author's expression.

"Glass Zelnets" is the first play of Williams, who brought him wide fame. In the play, the leading themes of Williams dramaturgia were clearly fired: the loneliness of people, their mutual misunderstanding, the desire to hide from the cruelty of life in the invented world, the defenseless vanity of the beauty, the doomedness of people emotionally tied to the past. Piece to a certain extent is autobiographical. It is built on the memories of the main character of Tom Winfield about the mother and sister left them.

Williams masterfully shows the atmosphere of memories - ghostly, full of nostalgia and poetry. In the play recreated a painful attempt of Tom to break out from under the power of the mother, Amanda Winfield. The image of Amanda, one of the most expressive female images in the works of Williams, personifies the type of behavior ladies, which unites sober practicality with a mass of bizarre illusions, detrimental to her dreamy daughter. Laura Winfield is similar to Sister Williams - Rose (she has a dream of reason, the hallucinations and apathy began, she had an operation on the brain, she stopped seeing nightmares, but his life and clear consciousness went out of it), the insanity of which the writer was seriously worried. Laura appears in front of the viewer in the gentle glare of her glass bells, elegant figures of which she constantly goes through. In the laure itself embodied the ideal of defenseless beauty, too low-visual in the cruel world. All three - Laura, Amanda and Tom - "Fugitives", which do not accept how the world is arranged, and try to escape from him.

Treated by Williams The history of the decay of one family is frequency: Mother, son and daughter can no longer endure the hopelessness of the threesome in the fictional illusory world, in the reality of which the mother believes Amanda. She, although endowed with tremendous life and optimism, is not able to fit into the context of the new post-war society, as she can't accept the fact that, together with a lot of fans, her youth and husband went.

Amanda believes that the only romance that her son can afford is to speed up promotion; And daughters need to think about a successful marriage. Fragile painful laure (a very comparted girl, because I survived a serious illness in childhood, her leg was shorter than another; she is a symbol of defenseless beauty) trying to eat idle jim on "Connor, but tolerates a crushing failure and unlikely to ever I can recover from experienced shocks. The mother accuses his son, and he leaves the family, deciding to start a new life. But it was not able to do this, because he is wearing a non-healing wound and stigmatically disconnected. Thus we see family and interpersonal conflict.

You can confidently say that the collection of glass bells is an artistic symbol of the play. Fragile figures personify both human loneliness, and the ephemeralness of life illusions, and the incidence of the most surrounding world of heroes.

Already in this play, the unique style of Williams is traced - it is emphasized concrete and ironic, then penetrated by high lyrics and pathos, marked by poetic intonations and metaphoricity.

In the images of William "fugitives" a clearly noticeable influence of the literary tradition of the American South (V. Falkner, P. Warren, etc.), which is characterized by the motive of "lost paradise".

The "glass animal" puts forward the concept of a new plastic theater, which is implemented in the play with:

The screen - the screen is very often used here, the purpose of which, emphasize this or that episode. Each scene has a moment or moments that are most important in composite terms. The inscription or image on the screen enhance the hint in the text, help available, it is easy to convey the desired thought enclosed in replica ..

Lighting is very interesting in conceived lighting in the play. The scene seems to be in the smoke of memories. The beam of light falls on an actor or some kind of subject, leaving in the shade that apparently seems to be the center of action. For example, Laura does not participate in the quarrel of Tom with Amanda, but it is she who is filled at this moment with clear light. The same applies to the scene of dinner, when the silent figure of the lauri should remain in the center of attention of the viewer on the sofa. The light falling on the laur is distinguished by a special chaste purity and resembles light on ancient icons or in the image of Madonn. Free, based on creative fantasy. The use of light is very valuable. It gives the scene mobility and plasticity.

Music is another extralectric agent that is used in the play is music. Non-end-to-end melody of "glass bells" emotionally emphasizes the corresponding episodes. Music occurs between the scenes, as a memory, as regretful, without which there is no plays. This melody belongs in the main laure, and therefore sounds particularly clear when the action focuses on it and on elegant fragile figures, which, as if embodying it

Introduction of the story of the narrator.

Throughout the creative path of Tennessee, Williams chose and rethought through the prism of his worldview many different traditions. The playwright tried to find all new and new verbal forms to describe the inner world of their heroes.
His skill and individuality lies in the creation of a poetic atmosphere in works, the finest development of characters, the creation of the subtext, symbolism.

Literature

1. Bernatskaya V. Four decades of American drama. 1950-1980 / V. Bernatskaya - M.: Sufler, 1993. - № 3. - 215 p.

2. Wulf V. from Broadway a little to the side: essays about the theater life of the United States, and not only about it. 70s. / Ed.: Wulf V.F. - M.: "Art", 1982. -264 p.