Monologue In Our Town

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder in 1937. Our Town is a play about the daily life in Act One, love and marriage in Act Two and death and dying in Act Three. The play is about two main characters, Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The play in Act One just goes through the daily life of the characters. Act Two it shows the love and marriage between these two characters and last Act Three shows life after death of the characters. The play has a man called the Stage Manager that is mainly a narrator throughout the play but also takes on the role of people in the town. The Stage Manager knows many thing about the people in the play Our Town.  The Stage Manager steps in, describes scenes, and seems to start and stop the action of the play whenever he wants. The Stage Manager has many similarities to God. The Stage Manager doesn't only know everything about everyone, he can also see into the future. The Stage Manager is also present in every scene watching it all play out. The Stage Manager and God are different because the Stage Manager unlike God makes

Have you ever thought that even the littlest things in life can make the biggest difference? One of the themes of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is people never fully appreciate the wonders of daily life. People take everything for granted and don’t really realize how the little things in life actually make a huge impact on your life. Wilder shows examples of the little things in life many times in each of the acts throughout the play. Our Town is about a young couple who falls in love and ends up spending their life together. The young couple overlooks the small but important things in life. Throughout Our Town, Wilder informs us about how all people don’t appreciate the little things in life that actually make a huge difference.

Our Town is a story on how humans does not fully appreciate life until they die and realize what they did and want to go back and change it. Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is about a town life in three acts. The three acts are as followed. Daily Life, Companionship, and Death.It shows how people live and die and how they regret things they did on earth and come to see the big picture of life. Wilder argues, because life is short we must appreciate the joys of living until we die.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder set in a small town known as Grover’s Corners. Wilder conjured the Stage Manager to be a representation to the theme of the play. The theme of universality placing Grover’s Corners in view with the rest of the world. Wilder makes a point to the audience that people have a big impact and influence over the next person, whether they were important or insignificant to that individual’s life. Therefore, the Stage Manager emphasizes on this very viewpoint that the lives of certain people are overlooked so are their influences. The Stage Manager himself is a physical embodiment of Wilders own views and opinions of humans and life itself. Throughout the play, the Stage Manager plays various of roles in order to force the realization to the audience into understanding the importance human life and the influence of others.

The movie Our Town was a 1938 American three-act play directed by Thornton Wilder. The movie tells the story about a fictional American town known as Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913. Throughout the mover, the director uses meta-theatrical tools to set the play in the theatres where such play was being conducted. The main character in this film is the stage manager who addresses the audience directly. The stage manager also brings in guest lecturers into the play by fielding questions from the viewers as well as filling some of the roles (TheConnection np). The major differences between this play and others are that the actors perform without a proper set and the acting is done without props.

11. Point out some moments in the play when the playwright conveys much to the audience without dialogue

Wilder depicts the continuity of human life in his play. Life and death interfere and happen at the same time. Emily tragically dies during childbirth yet her child survives. Thornton emphasizes the fact that “out of life comes death and from death comes life” (Ballet: 242). He also briefly points out the pointlessness of war. ”Over there are some Civil War veterans. Iron flags on their graves […] All they knew was the name, friends – the United States of America […] And they wend and died about it” (Wilder: 87). The transience of life is depicted in the Stage Manager’s statements e.g. about Babylon “Babylon one had two million people in it, and all we know about ´em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts… […] and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us” (Wilder: 33). He also points out how rapidly a lifetime goes by “You know how it is: you’re twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions: then wisssh! you’re seventy: you’ve been a lawyer for fifty years, and that white-haired lady at your side has eaten over fifty thousand means with you” (Wilder:

Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize the true value of living until we are dead and gone. The through-line of the action seems to be attention to the details of life. Wilder builds up a plot that pays attention to great details of living.

Our Town is play written a while ago, but it relates to any time. Showing that routine is a part of everybody’s life. No matter what day and age you live in your going to have a routine. This play shows an example of two families and their daily routines. The whole play relates to routine even the different acts.

I’m just me. He is everything I’d imagine that “me” could be, if I stepped outside our box and found a plain to release these ideas of everything we’ve ever wanted to be. I’m solitary, mindful, a Garfield, a Seinfeld, least to say extraordinarily nothing special but not quite nothing special at all. I love the smooth sooth of Brazilian jazz music and cool days that paint pictures of fall. Handling thin brush tips that paint pix I could hang on my wall. He’s Los Angeles’s Sunset Blvd in the dark magic hours prior to dawn. Where the spot light rests upon the culprits of the moon randomly moving in unison. I quietly await the storms demise. Many moons have passed since we’ve viewed a frozen stretch of land called home. Where great bodies collide

Man-made and natural disasters will always repeat themselves differently and the human race has the power to take over it or be taken over by it. This play explores themes of drive and flexibility, as well as the failings of our species. Another theme I believe is for this play is Illusion vs. Reality. Trying to create a "real" world on the stage is what traditional realistic plays do. They encourage the audience to forget that they are watching actors play roles in a fictional play. Wilder continuously interrupts this sort of theatrical illusion to remind the audience that they are watching a performance.

In the early 20th century, Thornton Wilder began his career as an esteemed playwright with exceptional ideas. He acquainted the modern world with the concept of utilizing an amateur actor communicating the events of a story. The play Our Town possesses an unmatchable concept that is the Stage Manager himself and the peculiar purpose of his presence. The Stage Manager is a nameless and straightforward character whom is dressed with an already lit pipe and a hat, giving him the appearance of an ordinary man (Galens 226; Austell 95).

In Our Town, there are many themes that are present in the play. There are many instances where the reader or audience can say that while writing the play that Thornton Wilder had in mind that the play was going to support the feminist movement, or the how the play can be used to show how ridiculous the marxist theory is, or it can also say that Wilder intended Our Town to be used to support the mythological theory, both the archetypal characters, in the town drunk, Simon Stimson, and George and Emily, and archetypal images, such as his references Mrs. Webb’s and Mrs. Gibbs’ gardens, and how he continued to reference how the moon looks and its position throughout the play. Thornton Wilder can be said to support the feminist movement because

“You ain’t gonna tell me what to do,” I would retort in voice that was akin to a 50 year old smoker. Back then, I didn’t care about life; I was a free soul. I lived life like a fighter fought, impervious to monsters, clowns, and everything in between. It wasn’t until my 23rd birthday that I finally opened my eyes.

Abelard is sitting on his couch watching Lazy Town one day, when suddenly his mother comes in drunk and angry. “I just got fired from my job, and now i'm gonna whip you until you die, you useless sack of skin!” Being me, I stood up and punched my mother right in the nose, I then yelled out in anger”I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR CRAP MOTHER!” I then punched her in the nose in anger, my mother barely knew how to react, just groans of pain escaped her lips. Until finally she fell down, as I heard a loud snap. Abelard sits on a chair in his room, whilst staring at his sleeping mother waiting for her to wake up. She then wakes up, she looks around and realizes she's tied up and cannot escape. “Ah, i've been waiting for you to wake up, mother, abe says