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The Glass of Water

The Children's Hour

Love! Valour! Compassion!

Eurydice

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The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour have aspects of a well-made play but there are some elements of Lillian Hellman's play that departs from the structure of a well-made play. The first element that departs from well-made play is the logical resolution. Martha killing herself is not a logical ending and is not an ending that was expected. The expectation of Martha, Karen, and Joe going off together is the logical resolution that is expected. Another element that departs from the well-made play is the just in time revelation. Mrs.Tilford did not show up just in time to save a life. She showed up just in time to capture the tragic ending. 

This play should not be shown today because the view on same sex relationships for women today are different than in the world of Hellman's play. The results can add up to someone being offended by the fact that Martha killed herself for loving Karen more than a friend. There can be someone who gets mad at how the situation was handled in Hellman's play. In today's world there would probably be more negative replies than good ones.  

Love! Valour! Compassion!

Love! Valour! Compassion! is structured and have choices that changes the worldview compared to other plays that we have read. McNally's choice of secluding the men in a lake house away for the city shows that the decision of who to love it between the person who they love, and not the standards of the world. In The Children's Hour Martha and Karen were accused of something that wasn't accepted at the time.The choice of making the men all gay shows that same sex relationships are a little more accepted within the same sex community, than compared to the worldview of The Children's Hour. There is a struggle that faces the same sex community which is AIDS. The struggle that is faced in The Children's Hours is a person's reputation. The structure of the play is non-linear. The timeline does not go in chronological order. McNally's choice can translate into that there is a change in how the order of this worldview has changed. Another choice that McNally made to reflect the worldview is having the men confess their fears about themselves in Act Three. This reflects that the wellbeing of same sex couples is important than the loss of a life which is seen in The Children's Hour.                   

The Glass of Water

The two moments that don't go alone with the Eugene Scribe's original play is the slaps in the face buy Duchess and Bolingbroke, and the other is the Queens look out on the balcony to find a new interest.

The whole play Scribe has violence set in the background of the play with the riot and Masham killing Richard Bolingbroke. We don't see these things happening on stage but we hear them. Then all of a sudden we see Duchess and Bolingbroke start to slap each other in the face. Why have a form of violence presented after the go wround for love?

But the action of Bolingbroke slaping the Duchess was where my eyebrow raised because throuhout the play we see Scibe has chosen to put focus on the Queen and how much power she had to use in a way to achieve love. We also see that in Duchess who is also a woman in power. And we see how Bolingbroke aids Abigail in achieving a position in the Queen's court, and overall succeeding in the union of Abigail and Masham. We see these women are well respected, and why would you disrespect a respected women a slap after you have seemed to show respect to all the others.

As for the Queen's new interest which opens up a new can of power love, I know all the snswers that want to know, and this moment just wants to drag me into how she is going to control this one. Well at least she found another interest. But would you have learned your lesson.
 

Eurydice

"Rooms are not allowed."(pg.214)
The room that Eurydice occupies in the underworld is made out of string. The room was made by her dad, who Eurydice connects with clearly than Orpheus. Orpheus wants to use Eurydice's hair which resembles string, and her father builds her a string house which is a stable structure in the overworld. The string is string, and is not something that just resembles string. In other words Eurydice's had a stronger connection with her father than her husband.  a space that is mirrored from the overworld, and is where Eurydice and her dad reconnect with the memories that are left. Rooms are connected with making memories and the underworld doesn't like that. This quote would give the imagery of  spacious and wonder world. Then when the viewer goes see the play there is a little room in this world where no rooms are allowed. 

"We two alone sing like birds in the cage."(pg.233)
 There are two relationships that involves a string of music. The relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice is a bit disconnected. The relationship between Eurydice and her Father are stringed together just right. For the poster this quote would give the idea that there is two relationships that merge well together. It also signifies the string room and how they musically meshed well in the wall of the room.