Helen did approve of the play, and actually provided four pages of notes to help Gibson eliminate technical errors.ĩ The Miracle Worker: Dramatic Background When Gibson finished The Miracle Worker he had the play typed in brail and sent to the real Helen Keller.
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In addition to these plays he also wrote a series of chronicles (articles) about his plays and the difficulty of the production on Broadway.Ĩ The Miracle Worker: Gibson’s characters The Miracle Worker utilizes a variety of settings: Annie’s bedroom, the Keller dining room, and the yard. He used two apartments as the stage for one of his plays, both remaining on the stage throughout the play, and the connection being a telephone.
Gibson is noted for innovative staging in plays. Gibson is known for developing strong characters in his dramas. Gibson usually brings to the front a new insight into a topic for a reader. Although the ideas of isolation and loneliness are negative Gibson approaches them optimistically (from a bright side). Loneliness in The Miracle Worker is dealt with as Annie Sullivan (the person who works with Helen) is able to break through her barriers of blindness and deafness. Writing deals with isolation and loneliness. The Miracle Worker which was the sequel to Monday After the Miracle won him the Pulitzer Prize.Ħ The Miracle Worker: Gibson’s topics in writing Gibson achieved national recognition for musical in the late 50’s as a playwright. The novel The Cobweb became a best-seller.ĥ The Miracle Worker: William Gibson achieves fame Gibson won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize in 1945. Gibson wrote a play, but did not receive recognition until he began writing poetry.
Gibson moved to Topeka, Kansas and married a psychoanalyst. After 2 years of school he dropped out to launch his writing career. Gibson’s English professor encouraged him to writer. At the city college of NY he took up writing. At one point supported himself as a jazz pianist in his teens and twenties. Mother ran a music school and father a popular pianist. Helen later lectured to many and wrote several books.Ĥ The Miracle Worker: William Gibson on the Rise Helen Keller through the expansion of this method no longer dealt with isolation and she learned to speak, attend Radcliff college and graduatte with honors. Annie taught Helen by writing letters onto her hand spelling out words. Annie sight was restored through extensive surgery. Annie had been an orphan after her parents died and also suffered from very poor vision (legally blind) and she talked her way into Perkins Institution for the blind. Alexander Graham Bell encouraged her family to accept a teacher from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston (Annie Sullivian 19). She was described as an “uncontrollable savage” by some. She had forgotten at this point some of the words she had learned. Helen was both blind and deaf at 18 months of age.
How do you teach someone who is deaf? How do you teach someone who is blind? How do you teach someone who is both blind and deaf?
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