Dysfunctional Families

Dysfunctional families ar common to both the creative activity of Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens and The chalk zoological garden, by Tennessee Williams. A family is a basic social unit consisting of more than one hu humankind being. operative families co-operate with one a nonher to sustain a happy and nurturing home living that is comforting and a pleasure to be in. Members of a functional family truly c be for one anothers safety and wellbeing. A impaired family is the opposite of a functional family.In Great Expectations there be both dysfunctional families, Joe Gardgerys family including miss Joe, spr check oer and Joe him self and Miss Havershams family, which consists of her and her take daughter, Estella. Technic all(prenominal)y, the escaped convict, kn h hoary as Magwitch, his wife and daughter could be considered as dysfunctional too. Their family is not as predominant as the other both families. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom, Laura, Amanda and Amandas absent husband are withal a dysfunctional family. Family is important to the main characters in each of these texts, as it is the man-made lake of their values, morals and beliefs.Tom Wingfield, from The Glass Menagerie, is a young man who wants to explore the knowledge domain and go on breathtaking adventures. His r supplanter left field his flummox, Amanda, for this reason when Tom was a young boy. Tom has been the man of the manse ever since. The Glass Menagerie is set in St Louis, USA, in a cadence where wo hands did not stimulate oft power in mens business. Amanda has a job selling magazines oer the phone, which does not establish her enough money for the family to live execute to. Tom, therefore, works in a dress factory, which is not the most exciting job in the world, and this is the main source of income for the family.Laura Wingfield is Toms senescenter sister she is 26, gritty and lives in her own world full of tiny fragile glass animals, along with an er stwhile(a) victrola. Laura is the main source of conflict for the family be shake up she aimlessly wanders through life with no purpose. During Toms era at home, there are legion(predicate) conflicts between him and his arrive. This affects Tom, as he works long hours in the warehouse doing the same thing eachday. He then comes home to a mother who is constantly telling him what to and what no to do, as well as a sister who isnt pulling her own weight.Amanda often criticises Toms behaviour. In the prototypal scene nearly all(prenominal)thing Amanda says to Tom is a take for example, such as fall apartt push with your fingers, muckle chew Human beings are so-called to chew, Youre not pardon from the table and You smoke too much. These constant commands from Amandas plosive of view are caring, however, Tom only thinks of them as her trying to fancy his every move he is at the end of his wick. In background Three, Tom lets Amanda know once and for all what he thinks of the situation. Amanda What right do you ca-ca to jeopardize your job?Jeopardize the security of us all? How do you think wed manage if you were. Tom interrupts Id rather somebody battered my brains disc overleap than go back (the warehouse) every morning and you say self is all I think of. Why, listen, if self is what I thought of, Mother, Id be where he is (points to obtains portrait) GONE In the end it is all too much for Tom and he leaves his dish upless sister and commanding mother. He ventures off into the world corresponding father handle son Belonging to a dysfunctional family has deeply affected Tom and has eventually made him leave.Laura Wingfield, from The Glass Menagerie, is shy, unconfident, crippled and she often withdraws from reality. This is because she proceeds to a dysfunctional family. Her mother has tried to help her by sending her to business inform and finding her a gentlemen caller. Unfortunately, these are not Lauras visions for herself, theyre Ama ndas. Although Amanda truly loves Laura, she keepnot see that her bossy and beat personality is making Laura withdraw herself from reality even further. Laura stopped departure to business school because it made her sick and she didnt tell her mother, as she knew it would upset her.A mature young adult, firstly, would not dumbfound ailing because they attended a business school secondly, they would tell their mother they didnt want to attend the school anymore, and quit. Laura, on the other hand, pretends for weeks that she still attends the school leaving and arriving home when appropriate, to spring her mother entrust she is still attention the school. When Amanda finally finds out Laura stopped going because it made her a atomic unwell, it broke her snapper. Amanda So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? lark ourselves with the glass menagerie, darling?Eternally variation those worn-out phonograph records your father left as a painful reminder of him? Laura s result to this painful truth is silence and the twisting of her hands try forless With her mother and brother constantly bickering, she doesnt seem to get the chance to talk her thoughts and feelings. Her mother tells her what she is going to do with her life, and because she loves her mother, she just does as she is told. Over time this has affected Laura it is the reason she lost her personality and become a ghost-like construe living in a world of glass animalsMost of the time Laura doesnt have her own thoughts, this is another side effect of having a dysfunctional family. One night her mother asks her to stop washing the dishes and to come outside and adore the moon Amanda Laura, come here and make a wish on the moon Look over your left shoulder, Laura, and make a wish (Laura looks faintly puzzled as if called out of sleep. Amanda seizes her shoulders and turns her at an angle by the door) Now, now, darling, wish Laura What should I wish for, Mother? here(predicate) t he moon is a symbol of hope.Amanda has found the moon because she has found hope hope that her children will be okay in this cruel world. Laura discountt find the moon her mother has to point it out to her and physically move her so she can see it. This is symbolic of the fact that there is no hope for Laura as she cant and wont help herself in this life. As Tom says She lives in a world of her own a world of little glass ornaments, Mother She plays old phonograph records and thats about all. Amanda has to tell Laura what to wish for a grown woman being told what to wish forThis shows us how feeble and unsure Laura is of her actions. It is yet another problem Laura has developed because she is a part of a dysfunctional family. inject, Joe Gargery and Mrs Joe Gargery are a dysfunctional family from the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. The first half of the novel is set in England, in the country, a blot of innocence. The second half is set in the sinful and bac kstabbing streets of grotty old London. welt is an orphan his parents and five of his other siblings died when he was very little.His sr. sister and her husband (Mr and Mrs Joe Gargery) adopted situation (who says) My Sister had established a bang-up reputation with herself and the neighbourhood because she had brought me up by hand. Knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the riding habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me. I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand. Pip tells the reader that his fourth-year sister often hit him and Joe. This of course was never done when a neighbour was in earshot ecause, as Pip said, the villagers respected her because she brought him up by hand. She also never did or said anything pure to him he can re fellow member this from a young age. My sisters bringing up had made me sensitive. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coer cion, was unjust to me. She spoke harshly to him, hit him with the tickler file (which was a stick used only for beating up Pip and Joe) and force-fed him tar water (a very nasty medicine) to serve as punishments, for acts that did not deserve punishment.Because of this, he is often unsure of his actions and easily persuaded to think and do things that, deep down, he may not feel are right. This is alike(p) to Laura, from The Glass Menagerie. Unfortunately Laura didnt have a caring, patient and passing loving blacksmith in her life, unlike Pip, who has Joe. If Joe was not in Pips life, I am sure he would have turned out much like Laura. Joe loves Pip and genuinely cares for him, he is pure and shows many a(prenominal) acts of kindness towards Pip, most of which Pip doesnt acknowledge or notice.Towards the end of the novel Pip becomes extremely sick whilst in London. Joe finds out that Pip is sick, leaves his beloved town in the country and heads into London. This is a big task for Joe because as a country mouse he does not belong in the city he despises it, and vice versa. Joe then stays by Pips side for the many months it takes for Pip to recover. After Pip finally acknowldges Joes true love for him, Pip says O Joe, you utter my heart Look angry at me, Joe. Strike me, Joe. Tell me of my ingratitude. Dont be so good to me Joe just hugs Pip because he is relieved that Pip has recovered. Joe is the most important character for Pips health, safety and wellbeing. Without Joe, Pip would be in prison with a nausea that only love could cure and a debt to his name that he would never be able to repay. Joe is his guardian angel. Estella and Miss Haversham, from the novel Great Expectations, are yet another dysfunctional family. The cause of this dysfunctional family is Miss Havershams desired revenge on the world because her husband-to-be left her at their wedding, respite her heart.Miss Haversham adopted Estella as a young girl, not out of love, rather so sh e can could mould her into a cold-hearted witch like herself. Miss Haversham is rich and belongs to the upper middle class. Her house is a manor, and she is a well respected resident in Pips village. Miss Haversham invites Pip to her house a few times. Pip thinks she is his benefactor, the cause of his great expectations and the reason she asks him to go over. She really only invites him over to let Estella employ her cruel, cold-blooded personality on him.The first time Pip goes over to Miss Havershams, on her command, she gets him to play cards with Estella. Estalla doesnt want to play with a common labouring-boy , so Miss Haversham tempts her to play with him by aspect Well? You can break his heart. Here we can see the set up of Miss Havershams cold, broken heart on Estella. Instead of absentminded to make friends with Pip like a normal young girl, she wants to break his heart. This child would not have thought of this naturally, her mind has been trained to believe that in making peoples lives a living hell, you arouse a wizard of satisfaction.Estellas family has had a big impression on her values, morals and beliefs. You are to wait here, you boy the tears started to my eyes. the girl looked at me with a affectionate delight in having been the cause of them. Estella makes Pip believe his clothes, hands and the vogue he speaks is peculiar and shameful. The family life Miss Haversham has made for Estella is not physically or mentally healthy for her. To add to this, Miss Haversham wears a moldy bride dress, her house stinks of gone-off food and human body odour and it is dark and depressing.She doesnt shower because she wears her wedding clothes year after year. This gives Estella a vainglorious impression as her home life is not normal, her mother is unbalance and loosing her mind. Miss Haversham does such a great job of teaching Estella to become a witch that Estella leaves her for good. This breaks Miss Havershams already broken heart and s he kills herself. This doesnt bother Estella how inhumane In both The Glass Menagerie and Great Expectations, the main characters have lost a loved one.Pip and Estella never knew their biological parents, Miss Havershams husband-to-be never showed up at their wedding, Joe loses Mrs Joe Gargery, Laura and Toms dad leaves them and Amandas husband leaves her with a crippled daughter and a son. Losing a loved one or individual who is a close relative adversely affects you. All of these characters are can be compared to one another because they all know what it feels like to lose a loved one and belong to a dysfunctional family. In each case, dysfunctional families affect the main characters.Tom leaves his family, Laura makes herself belong to a world of her own, Pip yearns for a justice that was al focal points present and Estella follows the footsteps of a heartless witch. It is apparent that dysfunctional families can be the cause of losing a family member or one leaving. To me fami ly is very important. Fortunately I have a functional family. We sometimes fight and argue, however it is always over issues that are forgotten and easily forgiven. I know that if a member of my family was to leave us it would definetly affect me. I am glad that every family member in my family is happy and healthy.In both of the texts, the main cause of a dysfunctional family is having lost a family member. This is true for some families I know. Lots of parents divorce and their kids are forever living in two houses. sometimes it is for the better, as the kids dont have to listen to the parents fighting. Sometimes it tears the kids hearts and they are too young to understand that their parents hardly cant be together anymore. The kids find a way into their own world, like Laura, or they take it out on others, like Estella, or they are blessed and in their reality is a Joe, who loves them and sees a way out for them to escape.