Thornton Wilder creates a very interesting and different approach in his play "Our Town". ... Wilder's unusual and original idea of presenting a play with a plain and simple plot becomes a fascinating story with a valuable lesson. ... This is a different idea which Wilder uses, but is effective in maintaining simplicity and not introducing too many characters. ... Therefore, this play masterfully planned by Thornton Wilder, becomes appealing to all audiences by creating a story and idea out of the average life of a few characters. ...

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Progressive Life In his play, Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses a unique structure in comparison to other plays. ... Instead, simple characters are used to make Wilder's points clear and concrete. ... He creates scenes that are universally understood by any person in any town. ... Wilder's basic theme is made up of three interlocking acts, which signify the major stages of human life. ... Wilder succeeds, throughout his play, in recreating the inspiring quality of everyday living. ...

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The play Our Town by Thornton Wilder as performed by the actors at Saint Joseph Academy was very well portrayed. ... I enjoyed reading in class because it showed how the world was back then in a small town in New Hampshire. ... I could have used a little more scenery when the stage manager was describing the town and where everything was in it. I was getting a little confused but it was not that important because the whole point of that was just to give a general setting of the small town. ... All in all I would say that Our Town is a very good play and is actually enjoyable to watch. ...

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"Our Town- By Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897. ... Another one of his works, "Our Town,"" was a play which also won the Pulitzer Prize for "letters: Drama- in 1938. The creativity and attention to detail within, that emerge in such works, have earned Wilder a great deal of respect and renown in the literary realm and beyond "Our Town- begins in the town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, just before sunrise on May 7, 1901. ... "Our Town- is a play about simple life, ordinary events, learning to not take life for granted,...

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Throughout the play "Our Town-, Thorton Wilder brings up the upsides to living in a small town. ... The setting of "Our Town- is crucial to the meaning of Wilder's play, as indicated by the title. ... By referring to the setting as our town, Wilder is indicating that the place has universal appeal as an ordinary small town. ... [Our Town] is an attempt to find a value above all other prices for the smallest events of our daily life. ... [Thornton Wilder; by Rex J. ...

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"Our Town" is a synthetic play as the action is developed and consumed in itself. ... Reading "Our Town," it is unlikely to have any kind of thrill or feeling. ... "Our Town" is an accurate portrait of the simple life. ... Before "Our Town," the reader considered himself unique and special and now he becomes aware of his pettiness and of the fact that he is only a character with a predefined course, as if he had received at birth a chart of do's and don't's. ... There isn't any doubt that Thornton Wilder's play is a synthetic one, because ...

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Our Town In the play Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses the commentary about certain social issues to further exemplify the point that the people of Grover's Corner are really quite conservative and rather passive while they let life pass them by. ... Religious faith is one of the issues used by Wilder. ... Very ordinary town, if you ask me... But our young people seem to like it well enough. ... One of the issues used by Wilder is suicide. ...

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Our Town, by Thornton Wilder is a play that takes place in a small fictional town of Grover's Corner, New Hampshire. ... Emily Webb, one of the most important characters in the play, is Wilder's character in which he uses to show the audience a universal message that anyone would understand and relate to. ... If Wilder changed Emily, the universal message might not be as effective as it is now. ...

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Thornton Wilder brings back a nostalgic view on neighborly contact and friendly interactions through Our Town and reminds us of a Golden Age we cannot let go of. ... For Thornton Wilder, writing Our Town during the great depression helped escape the social reality and pain everyone felt. ... Our Town created that warm fuzzy memory of leaving doors unlocked, plentiful food and neighborly conduct. ... And for most, it's the best of our past. ... At Bryant College, we create our own community and society within our dormitories. ...

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Shadow of a Doubt 1943 USA 105 mins Source: NL Prod Co: Universal Pro: Jack H Skirball Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Scr: Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, Sally Benson Phot: Joseph Valentine Mus: Dimitri Tiomkin Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford "... if you ripped the front off houses..." ... By enlisting Thornton Wilder, the playwright of the Americana-soaked Our Town, as scriptwriter, Hitchcock was able to infuse what are, in some ways, characteristically dark stylistic and thematic tra! its with effective local c...

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This paper concerns with one of her social explorers: the middle class heroine Margaret Hale who was brought up in the South but is forced to leave her home and move to an industrial town in the North. 2. ... Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of North and South, was a first-hand witness to the effects of the industrial revolution since she was living in one of the biggest industrial towns of the time: Manchester. ... This quality of straightforwardness "equips Margaret to urge straight speaking on Thornton and Higgins" (Stoneman 128). ... Her contact with common people (laborers in H...

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