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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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"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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• Grade Level: High School

"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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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