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The Glass Menagerie
Title: The Glass Menagerie
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1137 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Glass Menagerie
The six elements and principles of tragedy as defined by Aristotle can be applied to the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. According to Aristotle, every play should have six elements - plot, character, thought, diction, melody and spectacle. These elements are present in Tennessee Williams play and the play can be analyzed by drawing relevant parallels to Aristotle’s terms. These principles of tragedy and analysis of the ideal form of the tragic play …showed first 75 words of 1137 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1137 total…blend in with the play appropriately. Spectacle refers to the staging of the play and as with melody should also be appropriate to the theme of the play. In The Glass Menagerie, there is staging that is suitable for the themes of escapism and loneliness. When reading the play as we have done, it is not possible to have melody but the reader can read stage directions and imagine what the spectacle would look like.
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