Tom Wingfield’s Alienation in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

A Marxist Approach
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage25
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage31
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume15
dc.contributor.authorFomeshi, Behnam
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T10:04:59Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T10:04:59Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractSeveral distinguished philosophers such as Rousseau, Hegel, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger paid serious attention to the notion of alienation. The present paper elaborates on the notion of alienation, based on Marx's ideas, and traces it in the character of Tom Wingfield, one of the major characters in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. The Wingfields belong to the middle class living in the capitalist society of America during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The father has left the family sixteen years ago. The son, Tom, is the breadwinner of the family. As a "poet with a job in a warehouse," he is alienated from his labor. As a result of alienation from his labor he is self-alienated. The specialization in the capitalist system prevents him from developing to the total human and alienates him from his species life. The self-alienated worker becomes alienated from his family members and, finally leaves them.
dc.identifier.doi10.9744/kata.15.1.25-32
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/347
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.isbasedonhttp://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18742/18473
dc.relation.issn1411-2639
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dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
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dc.subject.ddcddc:800
dc.subject.ddcddc:820
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldanglophoneliterature
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.titleTom Wingfield’s Alienation in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie
dc.title.alternativeA Marxist Approach
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