Thursday, 18 June 2015

Analyze two central ideas that are the themes of Our Town. What is the meaning or message of Our Town? How does the author develop each theme? Discuss...

I think
that one of the most central ideas to Wilder's work is the universality of the human experience.
  strives to show the universal condition of life.  It is one whereby
individuals find more in common than those forces which are different.  At the start of Act III,
the Stage Manager articulates this condition of being in the world:


...everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to
do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five
thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's
something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.


One of the central ideas that serve as a critical theme in Our
Town
is understanding this eternal applicability to being in the world.  The voice of
the Stage Manager is one technique that conveys this universal condition.  The Stage Manager is
a voice that has seen the passage of time and the universality which is...

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