Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

"When Mr Antrobus raped you home from your Sabine Hills, he did it to insult me." (Wilder 14).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianneBanda/2009/03/gladys_left_out.html

The Bible and Pedophelia

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/03/the_bible_and_pedophelia.html

"We're all just as wicked as we can be, and that's the God's truth."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CarlosPeredo/2009/03/too_forward_i_think_so.html

"Sabina:
. . . . This is where you came in. We have to go on for ages and ages yet.
You go home.
The end of this play isn't written yet."
~page 121

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/03/the_play_that_never_ends.html

“You’ve had your chance. You’ve had your day. You’ve failed. You’ve lost…A new world to make” (92). The purpose, however, of these obvious biblical allusions is not as easily interpreted. Has anyone else found a purpose of these allusions?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/03/concealed_reality.html

My blog talks bout how surprised i was at the absurdity of the play.
"Dinosaur: It's cold. (wilder 156).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JoshuaWilks/2009/03/what_is_going_on.html

Talking dinosaurs, really? Performance setbacks, why? And Gladys fits in where?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/03/skin.html

"Telegraph boy: 'Thank you Mrs. Antrobus. Mrs. Antrobus, can I ask you something else? I have two sons of my own; if the cold gets worse, what should I do?'"

"I don't know anything. Some say that the ice is going slower. Some say that it's stopped. The sun's growing cold. What can I do about that? Nothing we can do but burn everything in the house, and the fenceposts and the barn. Keep the fire going. When we have no more fire, we die."

Wilder, page 32

Human beings need heat in order to survive. But is it only the human being's body that requires heat? What about the mind? What about the inspiration and will to create, build, help, and imagine?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/03/you_cant_start_a_fire_without.html

"Stop! Stop! Don't play this scene. You know what happened last night. Stop the play."
Sabina is the most unprofessional actress I've ever seen in my life.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/03/stop_stop_dont_play_this.html

"I shall continue fighting you until my last breath as long as you mix up your idea of liberty with your idea of hogging everything for yourself...You and I want the same thing; but until you think of it as something that everyone has a right to, you are my deadly enemy and I will destroy you."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AliciaCampbell/2009/03/back_at_square_one.html

“Sabina: Mrs. Antrobus, I want to take back the notice I have you. Mrs. Antrobus, I don’t want to leave a house that gets such interesting telegrams.”
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/03/the_skin_of_our_grapes.html

The Antrobus family: is it really a family?
Why the back and forth on liking everyone in the family?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelsieBitner/2009/03/save_the_family.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/03/evil_or_just_a_threat.html

Henry: "I'm not going to be a part of any peacetime of yours. I'm going a long way from here and make my own world that's fit for a man to live in. Where a man can be free, and have a chance, and do what he wants to do in his own way."

Wilder's comic and yet bizarre approach to satire in his play, The Skin of Our Teeth, made it a difficult start for me to get into this play. Once I got moving though, it seemed still a very strange sense of approach that Wilder takes to get his message of the struggles of humanity through to the audience.

"Just a moment. I have something I wish to say to the audience. - Ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to play this particular scene tonight..."

Talking about the odd beginning of the play that grabs the reader's attention

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewAdams/2009/03/great_attention_getter.html

"We realize that the human race is perpetually caught in crises, but also perpetually surviving," (Vogel forward)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/surviving-the-c.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/03/why_biblical_references.html