n, cooking three meals a day, doing homework, singing in church-choir or gossiping. The play is divided into three acts, too. The first act deals with childhood and adolescence of the two families' children. Act two presents wedding between George Gibbs and Emily Webb and the moment of their falling in love. The last one describes the funeral of Emily who died during her second childbirth and her after-life.
             The three acts of The Skin of Our Teeth are arranged to encompass three, major units of time. "Act I embraces geologic time; Act II, biblical time; and Act III, the time of recorded history". (Burbank, 1961: 104) It is essential to notice that within a given act all three time-units are included and only apparently mixed up creating as if embracing-all 'presence'. The assignment, however, is based on the leading role of them. Similarly, it can be said that "The first act pits Man against Nature; the second, Man against moral order; and the third, Man against himself". (Burbank, 1961: 104)
             The complexity of the experiencing time by the ch
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