Rough Draft due Tuesday, October 13th

WRITING OPTIONS:

1. Discuss how Williams has represented the American family and/or the American Dream in the two plays, "Glass Menagerie" and "Streetcar Named Desire."
2. Discuss how memory, delusion, and illusion function in each of the plays in the various characters' lives.
3. How are Blanche and Stella, Stanley and Mitchell different/the same?
4. One critic has said that “The Glass Menagerie” shows a series of contrasts between (a) the dreamer and the doer, (b) the past and the present, (c) fantasy and reality, (d) psychological and physical handicaps, and (e) the desire for escape and the awareness of responsibilities. Choose one or two of these contrasts, and trace the way it is developed in the play.

CREATIVE OPTIONS (this is not to say that the writing options won't be creative, please, dear god, let them be creative!) ~ for these, the "rough draft" will need to be a one paragraph detailed proposal that your peers will be able to review and comment on (these will also need to be approved by me).

1. Write modernized version of one of these plays. This is not to be a line-by-line copy/update, but a new, original play inspired by one of these. It will need to be at least 1200 words.
   
2. The Other Creative Option: Make a YouTube video inspired by the entire play or one of the scenes in either play. You may use animation, still photography, live-action. It can be funny, it MUST reflect serious engagement with the play. It must be at least ten minutes long. You cannot just read the play.