I must say that I enjoyed the play proof much better than the play Topdog/Underdog. The ways that the two brothers spoke in Topdog/Underdog was just not how I speak, so I had a harder time following along and understanding what they were meaning. I also just wasn't a real fan of the meaning of it. I thought it was cool, in a way, that the theme of the play was the title itself. I was just not a fan of the play. However, the play Proof was something that I think many people could relate to in a way. Everyone needs something to prove to themselves they can succeed, just like Catherine does in the play. I think the meaning behind the play had a lot to do with why I liked it so much, along with the theme of the play. The meaning that I took behind the play Proof is so relatable with where I am at my life. Catherine was so afraid of showing how smart she was because she didn't want to be like her …show more content…
Her father was a brilliant man! He had two major impacts on mathematics before he was 23. He was still a genius even when he was ill. However, everyone saw him as crazy. Catherine inherited her father’s mathematical brilliance, so because she got this trait she was afraid she would also inherit her father's madness. For this reason, she decided to try to just play it safe and not show the gift she was blessed with. Catherine was not crazy like her father though. Instead of being crazy, she was a math mastermind! I think she really knew how smart she was, but in order for her to accept how gifted she really is she needed proof, as everyone does, to see that she could be successful. Everyone needs that reassurance that what they are doing is right, just like what Catherine needed to see. Once, she saw that her proof she wrote was shown true, she started to believe in herself. I try to
At the beginning of the show Charlotte does not like Catherine. Catherine even confronts her about it on page 22 when the girls are making plans to go out and get ice cream. Charlotte makes excuses so she can avoid going out. However, Catherine tells her, “You don't have plans. You just don't want to go out with me.” Catherine is determined to win her co-worker over. “You're gonna like me yet, Charlotte Purcell,” she remarks. By the end of the show, many years later in the play time, Charlotte has changed her mind. “Catherine Donohue….You're my hero.” she says on page
Talking about her past, present and her future. At this point the audience knows that Robert is not living. He is just a manifestation Catherine is experiencing. Catherine doesn’t know that her father is not alive. But she deals with it nevertheless. She has a conversation with him as if he were real. She keeps the father-daughter talk real. Although Robert was mentally ill as a result of his mathematic skills, Catherine is wo...
?If you remain imprisoned in self denial then days, weeks, months, and years, will continue to be wasted.? In the play, 7 stories, Morris Panych exhibits this denial through each character differently. Man, is the only character who understands how meaningless life really is. All of the characters have lives devoid of real meaning or purpose, although they each have developed an absurd point or notion or focus to validate their own existence. In this play, the characters of Charlotte and Rodney, are avoiding the meaninglessness of their lives by having affairs, drinking, and pretending to kill each other to enhance excitement into their life.
The pointedness of the play is created through a distinct plot path. The observer is lead through the story, seeing first how greatly Amanda Wingfield influences her children. Secondly, the play-goer notes how Tom Wingfield desperately struggles and writhes emotionally in his role of provider- he wants more than just to be at home, taking care of his all-too-reminiscent mother and emotionally stunted sister. Tom wants to get out from under his mother’s wing; his distinct ambitions prevent him from being comfortable with his station in life. Lastly, Laura struggles inside herself; doing battle against her shyness, Laura begins to unfurl a bit with Jim, but collapses once again after Jim announces his engagement and leaves her, again. Each character struggles and thrashes against their places in life, but none of them achieve true freedom. This plot attests to the fact that true change and freedom can only come through the saving power of God Almighty and Jesus Christ, and by letting go of the past.
The differences between the movie doubt and the play have significant differences that would influence ones opinion about certain characters and situations in the story. Though the differences are few one would agree that at least one of these differences are game changers or at the very least they get you thinking and having doubts of your own.
My least favorite aspect of this play was the ending. The ending confused me and was anticlimactic. It was not funny and not entertaining at all.
the proof that this is her play. She is the one who creates the world
In the first scene of “Proof,” the audience sees that Robert not only passes along his mathematical ability to Catherine but also passes along his trust in her, opening the path for her to turn the mathematical ability into greatness. While Catherine admits that her education was “living in this house for twenty-five years” (Auburn 64), Robert knows that Cather...
In early parts of the play, she is in control and is practical as she
Good acting is essential to any good performance. The actors and actresses have to try to make what the audience is seeing and hearing come alive. The four characters in the play “Proof” are able to do this. The meaning and purpose behind the play is easily understood because the actors and actresses do such a fine job in their performances.
themes of the play and helps us gain insight on other characters. I find the following quote to be
The significance of Martha’s madness to the play is that it reveals the various themes present in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha stands as a specific example that every person is afraid of escaping from their illusion and wants to fit into society, which is an essential theme of the play. Like Martha, one can continually live a life with fear and madness; however, one day, one must live a life with clarity in order to live a life without illusions.
The conversations Alice has been having with her mom about math have shaped her thinking about math, and there for her interest in doing well, or not well as the case may be. Activities with experts in math and the conversations Alice might have with those knowledgeable folks could also help to shape her thinking with regards to the importance of math. The evolutionary perspective that Charles Darwin and Konrad Lorenz helped to develop would suggest that Alice’s difficulty with math might be a trait inherited from her mother. This trait that makes Alice’s mom have trouble in math may make her successful in another area, which is desirable and therefore is trait was passed down to Alice – making her struggle in math, but successful in another
The first, most obvious trait of Catherine’s heroism is that she values human relationships above materialism. Nothing is more important to Catherine than her lover, Henry, and as the novel goes on, her baby. When Henry is injured and sent to Milan, she has no trouble transferring to the new hospital there. Catherine loves Henry and would drop anything to be with him. Nothing material holds her back from being with him. Even when they live in Switzerland, they don’t have many material possessions. They live very simple lives because all the couple really needs is each other. In chapter forty, Henry describes their time together with this quote, "When there was a good day we had a splendid time and we never had a bad time. We knew the baby was very close now and it gave us both a feeling as though something were hurrying us and we could not lose any time together." Catherine obviously values her time with Henry more than anyone else, but it isn’t the physical aspect of getting out and doing things that satisfies her. What satisfies Catherine is the extra time she gets to spend with the love of her life b...
Catherine’s revenge does not make things better for her. Her revenge on Heathcliff by blaming him for her upcoming death does not meliorate her mind. Just before she dies, she ascribes Heathcliff for her “murder.” “You have killed me, and thriven on it, I think” (Bronte 158). Catherine resembles what Oliver Goldsmith said, “When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy?