Tennessee Williams Research paper. For Eng 265

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Response for Night, Mother.

This play Written by Marsha Norman apply named Night, Mother is a very odd play that was honestly kind of messed to to me but honestly understandable with peoples problems and situations. It starts off with the main character Jessie a woman who's life has been extremely bad to her. A loveless marriage that ended with divorce, her son is a thief and a fool and a large amount of personal problems that make her life seem almost worthless. Jesse tells her mother how in the most simple way she wants to end her life her mother doesn't believe her but Jesse starts to clean things up in their house and makes everything ready for her eventual demise. Her mother is of course heart broken that her daughter has completely accepted her fate. Her mother asks her to spent the night and help her. In the end her mother is left deeply hurt with the pain of knowing her daughter is gonna to end her own life. Jessie then leaves to her room and closes the door all that is left is the sound of a gunshot and the assumption that Jessie her life.
This image is from one of many different plays of Night, Mother in the image you can see Jesse coldly standing there while her mothe pleds to her not to end her life.

Reading Response for Suddenly, Last Summer.

This is My Reading Response on Suddenly, Last Summer this play was written by Tennessee Williams. This Play is a very interesting read and grips you with its tale of a woman by the name of Catherine Holly who is a part is a wealthy New Orleans family. Who believe she has gone insane after the death of her cousin Sebastian in Europe under mysterious circumstances. Sebastian's mother Violet Venable doesn't buy it and believes the worse. Violet also does not believe that her son was homosexual and the story of her sons death and threats Catherine Holly with Lobotomy.
        To me this was kinda extreme but a mothers feelings to her son is understandable but its kinda crazy to go that far. After that they give Catherine a "Truth Serum" which sounds kinda off to me but its something that i assume was believed in back then. Catherine then start retelling the entire tale of what happened to her cousin while aboard. Sebastian using her looks to attract men and his fate being killed and being eaten by cannibals while seeking sexual favors from the people there. In which the horrified family memebers look on while Catherine just weeps and Violet just stares on.
this still image is of the 1959 version of the play with Elizabeth taylor playing Catherine Holly under the effects of the "truth serum". In the film they have a sequence where they have a flash back to show what had happened to Sebastian. During the sequence she explains everything while the flash back goes on and it become very strange with effects showing a angel of death or skeletons. while Catherine herself doesn't see it, it shows the effects of how death just follows and become very real that death is comming for Sebastian while he was running away from the locals chasing his him intruments.

Reading Response for True West

Oh man this is a good one this is my Reading Response for a True West , In this play two estranged brothers Austin and Lee who meet up after not seeing each other for about 5 years.  Austin is the younger of the two and is trying to become a writer and at the time was working on a screenplay. Lee the older brother is a drifter and a thief who was living in the desert for some time. Since the siblings are not on good terms Austin  attempts to bury the hatchet with Lee and appease his sort of over bearing attitude. In the play you can tell that Lee is the more aggressive one while Lee is trying to just appease his older brother who continues to act like kinda a jerk to him. In the play there are multiple moments where Lee just acts out and almost beats on his younger brother who isn't some what timid. In the end of the play things get kinda weird with both their mothers house where most of it takes place is ransacked and their mother returns. Its continues on from there with more a bit more weirdness and the brothers just staring at each other while the lights fade
this image is of actors John C. Reilly  and Philip Seymour Hoffman who both played both parts of Lee and Austin. In this image you can see that John C. Reilly is Lee and Philip Seymour Hoffman is Austin. the way you can tell is the emotions in the face, you can see the emotion the faces its obvious who is who.

response for Zoo story

After reading Zoo story i thought about how intresting the story was actually i personally didnt expect things to take a turn and someone getting stabbed. In a Zoo story the play is set in a park bench in front of a zoo, The characters are minamal  the two characters are Peter and jerry. Peter is a middle-class executive in a publishing company with a wife and kids. Jerry on the other hand is a isolated and a disheartened person. The play is about jerry who is looking for a meaningful conversation with another person, and he disturbs Peter in his state of relaxation,During the play Jerry conts. to conversate with Peter about his stories and bothers him with multiple things. Eventually things become more crazy and due to a arguement and Jerry carrying a knife one of them gets stabbed im not gonna spoil that. 
In this image you can see Jerry badgering Peter and bother him.

play review for drama class

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Super late response for MISANTHROPE

Okay so i didn't remember my password for a while, Got it eventually but for the moment the response. Well Misanthrope was a interesting read the names were a bit difficult but the events that happen through out was pretty good. The names of the characters we kind annoying i honestly was confused at certain points. I would mistake other characters but i got it eventually.Alceste is the main character and is kinda a weirdo and kinda has a messed up sense on the world. Alceste is in the camp of brutal honesty, which puts him at odds with Oronte when he correctly identifies his insipid poetry as awful, and with his love Celimene , who lives her life by the opposite code. Celimene delights in playing her suitors against each other, saying one thing to their faces and another behind their backs. Meanwhile, her cousin Eliante  and her “friend” Arsinoe try desperately to dissuade Alceste from his affections, admiring him as much for his honesty as others admire Celimene for her coquettishness. Sexual politics, it seems, were not so different in the 1600s–according to this play, women are either angels or demons in the eyes of men, depending on their actions. Though Alceste knows the absolute irrational nature of his love for Celimene, it nonetheless exists, and confirms for her the success of her approach to romance. In the end Celimene is kinda easy and ends up with no one which was kinda funny to me in the end.

Review of a Doll's house

Well from what i understand this entire play happens in a living room, Torvald and his wife nora live a pretty decent life and it become better when Torvald get a promotion. Okay that cool basic stuff and then people come into the picture first Dr.Rank who also comes in with a old friend of Nora from there youth her name was Kristine Linde, okay cool so things are fine and dandy but it begins to get a bit odd. Things like hidden depts , friends asking for lots of money to help there finacial problems. Im sorry but am i the only person who if i personally had a large sum of money would talk to almost no one.People always have something that they need money, but thats me. It starts to get weirder as the play keeps going things like people secretly being ill, blackmail, problems with debt. More characters come into the picture like Krogstad , This Character is very seedy and is kinda a jerk. He serves as the person who just screws everyones life up. But either way i wasn't all that intrested in the play. To much drama for my taste but it was the dry drama that i wasn't to intrested in.
look anthony hopkins played Noras husband Trovald only to get screwed over when she ends up only getting blackmailed sorry but to me this play was a pass.

kinda a late response to Dulcitius

Response to Dulcitius

A little bit late for a response but better late then never.

So  i read it completely and I'm sorry, i may be a wee bit sinical but man did i find it funny. Yeah maybe to me a creep who tries to get with virgins only to be smacked down by the power of god is funny to me. Only a German nun back in like 500 BC or something of the sort can have characters call the main antagonist of the story a Ethiop. That is already bad compared to what happens in the play, the guy touches himself with pots and pans and gets him self cover in dirt and is compared to the devil or a demon. I guess a virgins belief in god is that powerful when it comes to odd plays like this. But I'm the kinda guy who enjoys Drama lamas.


That power of God and belief in the almighty is apprently strong enough to make sure your clothing doesn't get torn off by guards. Quote of the day "AHH Sure why not by the power of RA your clothing shall stay on but we won't exactly save you"

Response for OEDIPUS REX

Okay so this is the first response for Drama In lagcc.

Oedipus Rex.

After reading Oedipus Rex personally i still see the same kinda oddly sinical play i have read over 3 times. This isnt my first time reading this obviously but this would be the first for this type of class. I chose this image below cause of the image it shows. Which i believe is Oedipus with his servants around him, i thought it was somewhat fitting due to how the play is like and how kinda insane it gets.
    
In the image above the image shows to me shows the look of disbelief and shame. However i can't tell if her has already blinded himself or what but to me its just shows pain and disbelief. "Guess ya can't outrun fate" is the proper quote for me to some up this play.