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This 4 page paper compares/contrasts Laura from the Glass Menagerie to Antigone from a play by the same name. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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situations which bring her to a moment of truth. These moments of truth determine the outcome of the characters path and ultimately the quality of her life. Two characters in
which this is evident is Antigone from the play by the same name, and the character of Laura from the Glass Menagerie.
Laura Wingfield is perhaps one of the most tragic of all the characters in The Glass Menagerie. This is because, of all the characters, she has almost completed her escape
into total oblivion. This is symbolized by her obsession with her glass figurines and her nickname, blue roses. These things are not real, nor are they natural. Lauras ideal life,
one could guess, would be to exist in a place where no one challenged her, or forced her to go beyond her own comfort level. Many therapists today might make
a convincing argument for Laura suffering from some sort of mental condition, perhaps mental depression. The Glass Menagerie is set in the
fifties, in a small unassuming apartment in the inner city. Laura is representative of youth and hope being tragically reduced in the industrialization of the cities, where everyone becomes a
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman, is not tolerated. Therefore, Laura retreats into
a place of her own making where she is accepted. As Tom says, "This was the compensation for lives that passed like mine, without any change or adventure. . .
All the world was waiting for bombardments!"( Williams, pg. 39) In a Theban play by Sophocles, Antigone, a woman, becomes the subject of
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