The Existential Quest of Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real: A Study of his Symbolization
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Tennessee Williams is one of the most popular dramatists of the modern American Literature and his plays, explicitly, have the ten basic components of existentialism. He has drawn upon all ten element of a unique existential –familiar form to project his concern for those “beautiful people who give up with such grace”. He has an affirmation of life, freedom and the creation of one’s own being, angst, dasein, the call of care, human relationships and spiritual growth, authentic values, and concrete experience into a distinctive dramatic form. That is why he presents a unified amalgamation of these views in his treatment of the dramatic constituents: subject, theme, dramatic action, characterization, dialogue, symbol, set and lighting design, and a vision of reality. This research paper is mainly concerned with Williams’ application of symbols, in his play Camino Real1 presented in 1953.
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