I love this play!!! I like how it stereotypes our lives, and brings to light how people just take it for granted, and just " go with the flow". Wilder sort of screams: wake up! He does so through Emily's character. in fact, the last act was my favorite. Emily philosophizes about life so greatly, and her love for it is sooo passionate, that she refuses to forget it. She is also talking about how life should be valued. I liked how the Stage Manager answered her question of if humans appreciate their life while they are living, that only saints and poets do a little. It is very sad, but veeeeery true. The valuing and living the life to the fullest makes me recall Waiting for Gadot. I think Beckett there also wanted to wake people up from passive surviving, always waiting for something that would make their life better. But Gadot, what ever he may be, never comes; so the characters just wasted all the time they were waiting. In Our Town Emily dies at an early age, and only then she realizes everything she had done wrong : she let her life just pass by in vain. This truly is a great play, that has definitely become my favorite this semester.
I definitely agree that this play was by far my favorite. I liked how you compared it to Godot because I that context came across my mind while reading Our Town too. It is very true that everyone takes everything for granted, but no one realizes it till they die like Emily or luckily for us, read about it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's really cool how you related it to Waiting for Godot. Both of the plays serve as wake up calls for not letting life simply pass you by. You can't just wait around and let life affect you, you have to take control of your life.
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