"playwriter" - 1 õppematerjal

Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.

He takes advantage of her, shatters her illusion. She is taken an asylm. Williams grew up in sourt, thats because so many southern features. The past is looked upon with sadness, guilt or fear. Like faulkner he describes society as a kind of hell of brutality and racism and society according to williams is sick. Often this sickness is described in sexual terms. Other plays contain a lot of sexual undertone. ,,Suddenly lost Summer". At first, william seems to be a realist playwriter, but he is not, his language is close to poetry, situations and characters are distorted, they are often made larger than life. Like Poe, williams uses elements of southern gothic. His tragedys are not everyday tragedys. Reality distorted by the characters imagination. They are gothic because thye show the horrors of the soul. Life is seen as a game, that cannot be won. In one way or another, his characters are defeated by life. ,,Cat on a hot tin roof"-mendacity (valelikkus, ebasiirus),