Archetypes

There are many different achetypal characters in this book. Constable Warren is like the caregiver of the play. He is the sheriff of the town and he watches over everyone in the town, as if they were family. He gives the young boys advice and one drunk man he rescues from a ditch. He also makes sure the "town drunk" gets home safe every night. Emily and George are also achetypal characters in the way they somewhat go on a journey to find themselves and create their own life. George Gibbs was sort of an archetype of innocence/hero/good, in the way he was what every boy should be. He treated Emily righta nad also lived the all-American dream. Simon Stimson was an archetype of evil/bad. He was the "town drunk" and he also committed suicide. He was what everyone of the town looked down on and did not want to be. He was a symbol of how everyday people dont appreciate life. Emily and George also seemed somewhat as seekers. They wanted to live life young. They became married at age 17-18 and wanted to seek out life together. They were symbols of how you should appreciate life before its gone and people do have something to live for. These are archtypal characters I recognized.

Allusion.....

"Our Town" is an overall allusion to life and reality. It relates to how everyday people take life for granted until they are gone or someone else is. Emily Webb and the other characters show this. Also this play is an allusion to Shakespear's plays. Emily and George relate to Romeo and Juliet's love story, in a way. Like Romeo and Juliet, Emily and George's love ends tragically when Emily dies. The ending also somewhat implies that George commits suicide in the end. Also some of the quotes in this play are allusions to the bible and the constitution. These are the only allusions i could understand and find.

Character Growth Of Emily Webb

"Our Town" was a very short play and it was hard to identify character growths, so the only character growth I noticed was in one of the main characters, Emily Webb. In the play Emily started out as a young girl just going through every day life but in the second act she transforms into a woman/wife/mother. After becoming a woman Emily did not show what she appreciated in life until it was gone. In the last act, Emily died and this act discussed Emily's thoughts after life was gone. She learned that she did not appreciate life when she was younger and now that its gone she wished she had. She discovered that no person can ever appreciate life to its fullest or understand what it really is. This is the only character growth I saw in this play.