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An Analysis Of The Themes Of Guilt And Atonement In The Writings Of Tennessee Williams, James Curry
An Analysis Of The Themes Of Guilt And Atonement In The Writings Of Tennessee Williams, James Curry
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The themes of guilt and atonement have been analyzed in selected writings of Tennessee Williams. Research concerning these two themes has been developed simultaneously with Williams’s concept of the universe and man. Many of Williams’s characters seek a form of atonement or purification for their guilt which has arisen due to their “incompleteness and unnatural desires.” Williams’s basic concept concerning the universe is that it is fragmented, a universe not completed by its Creator. Consequently, Williams envisions man and his nature to be likewise incomplete. It is this incompletion in man which causes him to have “unnatural desires,” labeled as …