LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:12 December 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Thornton Wilder as a Dramatist with a Humanist Vision and
Strong Religious Bent of Mind: An Appraisal

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A. Ph.D.


Abstract

Thornton Wilder was one of the most famous dramatists of 20th century, primarily a humanist who was optimistic towards life than most of his contemporary writers. His works and plays comprised a curious combination of the traditional and innovative, provincial and urban and modern and classical. This paper throws light on his humanistic vision and strong religious bent of mind and also proves that he is a person who used traditional literary forms in new ways.

Keywords: Thornton Wilder, dramatist, humanist vision, religious bent of mind

Humanists of the Renaissance

Thornton Wilder, one of the renowned dramatist of the 20th century, was primarily a humanist. Generally speaking, the humanists of the Renaissance asserted the intrinsic value of men’s life before death and the greatness of his potentialities and the rise of humanism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an attempt to project
the nature of man as a men, not the nature of men
as a soul weakly wandering between birth into sin
and death as a gateway to hell. Men as men, a being
in his own right, whatever one’s religious view of him
might be (Niels 96)

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A. Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai - 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
aschelliah@yahoo.com
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