Our Town Act 2 Analysis

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

Our Town is about the daily lives of two families living in Groves Corner, New Hampshire. It follows the budding relationship between Emily Webb and George Gibbs. We see the family go through a daily ritual just as other American families. The mother cooks breakfast, children go to school, and father goes to work. The paperboy delivers the newspaper and the milkman delivers milk.

What started out as an elated and upbeat play, becomes a dark and sad reflection on the human inability to appreciate the lives they live. Emily’s death is predominantly the reason the play is so effective and affecting. The audience sees themselves the most within Emily. Her death reveals the basic rhetorical purpose of the play, that within the most common events lie the most remarkable meanings of our lives. In realizing the beauty of the mundane aspects of life can we fully appreciate the gift we have. Wilder suggests that, just as youth is wasted on the young, life is also wasted on the

In Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, themes such as the importance of time, growing up, and a birth to death life cycle are prevalent in almost every conversation had among the stage manager and the main characters. One example is when Emily and George go to get ice cream sodas as a way for George to thank Emily for calling him out on his behavior. During this time, George and Emily end up confessing their feelings for each other which takes a large step into their next stage of life. I chose this scene because I saw how Wilder used the awkward and uncomfortable conversation of two kids that we’ve all seen and experienced to exhibit the many points he’s trying to make about the way we are all connected through our shared

Our Town takes place in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire around the turn of the century. (1900’s). This play uses a lot of flashbacks. There’s one with George and Emily when they first fall in love at Mr. Morgan’s shop. It also uses foreshadowing. When they told of how everyone died. Another flashback is when Joe comes back after about ten years and they talk about the dead and everyone’s lives.

In Our Town, the audience is able to understand how love is a consecutive cycle. Throughout the book, the Stage Manager takes the reader through the love of two characters Emily and George. Thornton Wilder allows the audience to experience the lives of the characters because they are able to relate to the characteristics of the actors in Our Town. From the ancient times all the way to the twenty-first century Thornton Wilder realize what it means to love someone, and how loving someone can lead to marriage and as he learned through his life he realize what people are like in the world.

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Have you ever read a novel that put into perspective how much you should cherish the life that you are given? In the play Our Town, by Thornton Wilder will provide many life lessons, such as being thankful for things such as possessions and time, by the time you finish the book. The play is set in 1905 (at least for the start of it), in the quiet, secluded town that goes by the name of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. The Stage Manager of the play sets the scene, and occasionally narrates parts of the play that are important, or simply just explains things to the audience. Things like breaking the fourth wall, and certain characters in the play, such as Emily, George, and the Webb and Gibbs families, and the interactions between them all, all makes this play very unique. Life in Our Town, as well as in the real world, is not appreciated nearly as much as it should be because of its worth, and everything that comes with the gift of life is ignored because of the constant, and sort of boring cycle that people have to go through every day.

The bell rings for lunch, all the kids exist the classroom. John and Tim sit at a table and discuss their day.

The major life events are summed up that way because that’s what life in the town consisted of growing up, getting married then die. The play on time by the author truly shows how many take their time alive for granted and how quickly it goes by. Such as when she chose to relive a day and she noticed how everyone wasn’t really taking everything in and enjoying themselves. The stage manager was the key tool in translating the authors perspective of time to the readers and the acts being few kind of shows how quickly and empty her life was.

The play "Our Town" starts out with a family that has children getting ready for school. The play then jumps six years ahead where two of the children are now getting married. The small town all attends the wedding and the Stage Manager goes through discussing what the people say about their wedding. After this the play jumps forward another nine years where the bride is now having her second child and dies during child birth. After this happens it tells about people attending her funeral as she watches in the afterlife along with other people form the town in their afterlife. The Stage Manager goes through explaining how all the people died and then the bride, Emily, decides she wants to go back for just one day. She wasn't allowed to pick a normal day so she just picked her 12th birthday. During her birthday, she had a normal morning with her parents and brother, but as the day goes on she realizes that the time is going by too fast. She decides to go back to the afterlife because it was too hard to sit there and know it was her last day with them. She began to realize that even the boring, daily life is important and should be

Our Town by Thornton Wilder is about a modest town called Grover’s Corners, and the 3 different stages of life that everyone goes through. The play’s culture is something that is eternal that's no matter what you do, you will always go back to your home. My culture is that everyone has a mind of their own and is able to learn from their mistakes and change from it. With the play it was set in the 1900s while my culture is in 2016. In life, people will go through so many things, but it doesn’t make us different from each other, we all go through and manage to get through it. In the 1900s, people went through experiencing in 2016 what we currently go through. It's not that different it’s how we learned from our experiences that change

When the women are coming home from choir practice and they talk about how ell planting will be because of how big the moon is. In Act III the dead peoples, or spirits, reference the moon as a guiding light. Another image that Wilder references is Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs’ gardens in the introduction of the town because he wants the town to seem fertile and helpful to the soul, much like how the garden could be if one was to admire how the colors are. He mentions the sunflowers and how bright they are and how they add to the overall effect of pleasantness to the town. The play could also support the archetype characters because one could view Wilder as intending George and Emily to play the roles as Adam and Eve, because they are the ones who are going to fulfill the ]roles of bearing the next generation of children for the town to continue to prosper, of course until the end of the play because they only have one child, the other child that killed Emily in childbirth is not known whether to live or dies.

On December 1, 2017, the One Acts performance was at Cheshire High School by the classes of 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. Each grade came together to create a play, with that they went up against the other grades and competed to see who had the best play. The freshmen’s play is called, Lord of the Skits: Based on a True Story. All the characters were themselves and it was about how they were trying to come up with an idea for the One Acts play. The sophomore’s play is called, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon. The characters played a specific role which they were assigned to and it was about different characters and how they are all linked together. The junior’s play was Touch it Part 2 with two characters. This play was about a box, the character

The only write to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and drama, Thornton Wilder, in his play, Our Town; (January 1938), states “Almost everybody in the world gets married--you know what I mean? In our town there aren’t hardly an exceptions. Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.” (46). This statement by the Stage Manager was a valid statement since this play was wrote in the 20th century. However, when the Stage Manager says; “Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married,” this statement is no longer authentic because society and marriage relationships have changed in the span of 20th century and the 21st century. Wilder’s purpose for writing Our Town is to explore life from childhood, marriage, then