Meditation 11
I found this particular play to be a little more amusing than some of the plays we have read this year. It has aspects that many of us can relate with to our daily lives - namely, all the petty fighting. Isn't it great when you make a giant scene and drag a fight out over something completely stupid??? It seems like everyone is fighting in this play. At first everyone likes each other, then they nitpick and start noticing all the little things they don't like about each other. Some of their social graces are a little off - notice the way Alcaste treats Oronte at the beginning of the play. Basically, "I don't want to be friends with you because your poetry sucks!" The best part is when his rudeness comes back to bite him in the ass when Oronte files a lawsuit against him. Before that happens, he goes off and insults his love interest - this guy has no idea how to treat people. Karma wins again, as they wind up apart at the end of the play.
posted by Libby @ 10:58 AM
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Your (accurate) description makes this play seem so very much like life at Austin College - it's a bit frightening.
Wow, scary. I was going to write exactly what Lauren just wrote... not thirty minutes ago. Anyway yeah, isn't it funny how a play written so long ago can relate entirely to college life today? I think it goes to show that history repeats itself and theatre is life.
I agree that this play is freakishly familiar with real life. It's like when you have a friend spend the weekend with you. You are super pumped to have them over and for the first couple hours yall both have a lot of fun. Then after that you are pretty much sick of the person and want them to go away. Then you nick pick at every little thing and end up fighting over something stupid.
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