As someone mentioned before, actions speak louder than words. The
ambiguity resists some of the gender,sex, and familial constructs by
limiting what we know about each of the charachters and lets us open our
eyes into the true relationship of mainly Brick and Big Daddy. This
play defies the "normal" sexual discrepancy of the cheating man when
Maggie is the one who tricks Skipper into sleeping with her yet the
attraction lies in her beauty which is typical (and her persuasiveness).
Big Daddy saying that he wants to sleep with as many women as possible
while he is still living reveals that men of "high society" can have
affairs just as the low class Maggie does and that mistakes are not
limited to a certain class. The homosexuality part of Skipper and Brick
reflects on the values of friendship and questions the construct of true
friendship. Although ambiguity does function as an obstructed eyeglass
there are many parts of the play where the ambiguity lets us know much
more than I think Williams wanted us to interpret. By leaving certain
things out, the reader makes assumptions and can change the intent of
the piece. For now, those are my thoughts on just a few of the issues.
Friday, September 12, 2008
drink up brick
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"Ambiguity as obstructed eyeglass." Cool!
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