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Madness and Identity Crisis in Tennessee Williams? The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F12%3A00061698" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061698 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Madness and Identity Crisis in Tennessee Williams? The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire

  • Original language description

    The personal crisis of Tennessee Williams' characters is usually interpreted as his expression of guilt towards mentally ill sister Rose. However this parallel to his life leaves the cause of the crisis behind. Identity crisis of his characters starts with trauma continues with self-separation and negative behaviour. This 'pain cycle' suggests the inability to face the facts of the real world. The characters are powerless, incapable to confront reality and they rather run away from it. They create unreal distant self that results in the conflict between the real and fictional 'I'. Escapism is refusing to accept one's essential powerlessness, the result of the crisis but also an option, openness to change of the self. Emotionally unbalanced characters signify not only Williams' own identity crisis but also his nostalgia for the past as conflict with present.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    AI - Linguistics

  • OECD FORD branch

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  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů