Analysis Of The Play Our Town - 1033 Words

The theme of Thorton Wilder’s play, â€Å"Our Town† is about how we all take life for granted, forgetting to appreciate every moment of our lives. Even the smallest moments should be noticed, the moments that make us who we are and the moments that might seem irrelevant at that time but they are in fact very beautiful and precious. Because we will never get to experience it for the second time, even if we want to. In my opinion, the protagonists are the stage manager, who helps to tie all scenes together and also the people of Grover’s Corners. The antagonist is within each and every character of the town themselves, who fail to realize the beauty of life and instead just let it pass by. The play mostly circulates around the ordinary life, the cycle of humans, simple, normal everyday lives. Their motivations and goals make sense to the theme of the play because it depicts the life of humans from beginning to end, and at the end there is a flashback, which concludes the theme of the play, which is to live life to the fullest. The primary conflict is that we take life for granted, we fail to appreciate what we have until it’s all gone. The best actor in my opinion is Jake Offen, who plays the stage manager. Even though during Act II, he stepped into the play and became Mr. Morgan, and served ice cream sodas to Emily Webb and George Gibbs. I don’t think he was really a character, nor actor of the play, but rather a part of the crew staging. I still think he did a really good job ofShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Play Our Town788 Words   |  4 PagesOur Town, a theatrical production directed by Roseann Sheridan, recreates the day-to-day activities of ordinary citizens living in a small New Hampshire town. 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