Eyes on the World: Using Global Issues in the EFL Classroom

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Tennessee Williams is one of the most important playwrights in the 20th century
American Theatre. He chose women as main characters in many plays written from 1945 to 961. His attitude toward female characters in his major plays was very different in comparison to other playwrights. This unusual feminity was rooted in his unfortunate childhood, he could depict the women's condition in the male dominated society exceptionally better than any other male writers.
His feministic plays show that patriarchism subordinates the female to the male and defines the female as an inferior being. He has often revealed the oppressions that women suffer from and exposed the women's isolation from the harsh patriarchy.
However, as time passed by, his new attitude concerning life made it possible to create the female characters who struggle desperately against the established patriarchal society.
The purpose of this thesis is to study of the women's self-recognition with Tennessee Williams' major plays of The Glass Menagerie(1944), A Streetcar Named Desire(1947).
In The Glass Menagerie, Williams describes Amanda and Laura as a victim of
patriarchy capitalism. Amanda, who fails to make Laura independent by pursuing a career, is frustrated again when she finds Laura can't be a chosen girl by a man. In the end, the contradiction of patriarchy drives Amanda and Laura to despair and desperation.
Blanche conflicts with Stanley who Symbolizes patriarchy in A Streetcar Named
Desire. She resists being treated as subordinate being to men and challenges Stanley's repression desperately. However, Blanche who doesn't attain financial self-existence is blamed as a prostitute and punished by patriarchy's sexual violence.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction 3
• 2. Global Issues in the Classrom: Energy Resource Depletion 4
• 3. How to Teach with Global Issues 10
• 4. Model for Problem-Solving: social Enterpreneurs 12
• 5. Definition of Social Entrepreneurs 13
• 6. Criteria for Locating Entrepreneurs 14
• 7. Examples of Social Entrepreneurs 14
• 8. Social Entrepreneurship and the EFL Classroom 17
• 9. Areas for Research 21