Dysfunctional Families

Dysfunctional families ar common to both the human being of outstanding Expectations, by Charles Dickens and The drinking glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. A family is a radical social unit consisting of more than wiz human being. Functional families co-operate with one another to sustain a happy and nurturing home life that is comforting and a pleasure to be in. Members of a functional family genuinely handle for one anothers safety and sanitarybeing. A impaired family is the black eye of a functional family.In abundant Expectations there are dickens impaired families, Joe Gardgerys family including run a way Joe, pip and Joe himself and young lady Havershams family, which consists of her and her adopted fille, Estella. Technically, the fly convict, kn avouch as Magwitch, his wife and daughter could be considered as nonadaptive too. Their family is not as predominant as the other two families. In The Glass Menagerie, tom turkey, Laura, Amanda and Amandas a bsent husband are also a dysfunctional family. Family is important to the important characters in to each one of these texts, as it is the reference work of their values, morals and beliefs. gobbler Wingfield, from The Glass Menagerie, is a young man who desires to explore the instauration and go on breathtaking adventures. His father leftfield his render, Amanda, for this condition when tom turkey was a young boy. tomcat has been the man of the family unit invariably since. The Glass Menagerie is set in St Louis, USA, in a date where women did not get d testify such(prenominal) power in mens blood line. Amanda has a job selling magazines over the phone, which does not earn her becoming money for the family to live off. tomcat, therefore, works in a shoe factory, which is not the most exciting job in the domain, and this is the main source of income for the family.Laura Wingfield is Toms older nestling she is 26, crippled and lives in her own world full of tiny fragile ice-skating rink animals, along with an old victrola. Laura is the main source of conflict for the family because she aimlessly wanders through life with no purpose. During Toms time at home, there are many conflicts amongst him and his mother. This affects Tom, as he works long hours in the warehouse doing the corresponding thing all(prenominal)day. He then comes home to a mother who is ceaselessly 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 first scene nearly everything Amanda says to Tom is a command for example, such as Dont push with your fingers, chew chew forgiving beings are supposed to chew, Youre not excused from the table and You smoke too much. These constant commands from Amandas point of idea are caring, however, Tom neertheless thinks of them as her trying to control his every escape he is at the end of his wick. In Scene Three, Tom lets Amanda kno w once and for all what he thinks of the situation. Amanda What right do you have to jeopardize your job?Jeopardize the security of us all? How do you think wed manage if you were. Tom interrupts Id alternatively somebody battered my brains out than go back (the warehouse) every forenoon 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 fathers portrait) GONE In the end it is all too much for Tom and he set offs his fosterless sister and commanding mother. He ventures off into the world like father like son Belonging to a dysfunctional family has duncishly change 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 belongs to a dysfunctional family. Her mother has tried to help her by sending her to business school and finding her a gentlemen caller. Unfortunately, these are not Lauras visions f or herself, theyre Amandas. Although Amanda truly loves Laura, she pecknot see that her bossy and overpowering personality is making Laura withdraw herself from reality even further. Laura stopped going to business school because it made her sick and she didnt tell her mother, as she knew it would unbalance her.A mature young adult, firstly, would not become unwell because they accompanied a business school minute of arcly, 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 go away and arriving home when appropriate, to beat her mother believe she is still attending the school. When Amanda ultimately finds out Laura stopped going because it made her a little unwell, it bust her midriff. Amanda So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie, darling?Eternally play those worn-out phonograph records your father left as a execrable reminder of him? Lauras response to this painful truth is silence and the twisting of her hands acceptless With her mother and crony constantly bickering, she doesnt seem to get the chance to speak 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 dry land she lost her personality and become a ghost-like figure keep 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 moonshine 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 fee by the door) Now, now, darling, wish Laura What should I wish for, Mother? Here the 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 cant 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 self-aggrandizing woman being told what to wish forThis shows us how feeble and unsure Laura is of her actions. It is merely another problem Laura has developed because she is a part of a dysfunctional family. whisk, Joe Gargery and Mrs Joe Gargery are a dysfunctional family from the original, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. The first half of the novel is set in England, in the country, a place of innocence. The second half is set in the sinful and backstabbing streets of grotty old London. spud is an orphan his parents and five of his other siblings died when he was very little.His older sister and her husband (Mr and Mrs Joe Gargery) adopted Pip (who says) My Sister had established a grand reputation with herself and the inhabithood because she had brought me up by hand. Knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the 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 older 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 nice to him he can re portion this from a young age. My sisters rescue up had made me sensitive. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her flaky and violent coercion, was unjust to me. She spoke harshly to him, hit him with the tickler (which was a stick used only for beating up Pip and Joe) and force-fed him jackass water (a very nasty medicine) to serve as punishments, for acts that did not be 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 similar to Laura, from The Glass Menagerie. Unfortunately Laura didnt have a caring, patient and extremely lovely 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 acts of almsgiving 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 pricy town in the country and heads into London. This is a big task for Joe becau se 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 break 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 amend 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 sickness 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 devolve Haversham, from the novel Great Expectations, are yet another dysfunctional family. The cause of this dysfunctional family is shed Havershams in demand(p) revenge on the world because her husband-to-be left her at their wedding, breaking her heart. discharge Haversham adopted Estella as a young girl, not out of love, sort of s o she 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 practice her cruel, inhuman 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 saying nearly? You can break his heart. Here we can see the effects of Miss Havershams cold, broken heart on Estella. Instead of wanting 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 mak ing peoples lives a living hell, you arouse a sense of satisfaction.Estellas family has had a big conceit on her values, morals and beliefs. You are to waitress here, you boy the disunite started to my eyes. the girl looked at me with a quick channel in having been the cause of them. Estella makes Pip believe his clothes, hands and the way 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 mouldy bride dress, her house stinks of gone-off food and human body odour and it is dark and depressing.She doesnt exhibitor because she wears her wedding clothes year after year. This gives Estella a bad impression as her home life is not normal, her mother is deranged 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 she 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 someone 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 always present and Estella follows the footsteps of a heartless witch. It is apparent that dysfunctional families can be the cause of losing a family particle or one leaving. To me family is very important. For tunately 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. slews 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 simply 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.