An Explanation Of How Ayckbourn presents the character of Rosemary in
Mother Figure.
In Ayckbourn’s play ‘Mother Figure’, Rosemary is the wife of Terry, an
obnoxious sexist male who evidently wears the trousers in their
marriage. Rosemary meets Lucy a strong-minded mother who pushes the
confident, more outspoken Rosemary forward. The two women come very
close in a short amount of time. It soon becomes apparent that there
is trouble in the marriage of Terry and Rosemary and adjustments are
required for the relationship to continue to survive much longer.
Rosemary is portrayed as being a friendly character that is not
necessarily nosey but likes to be informed of what others are up to.
Although she is “frail, mousey-looking” she is quite chatty and is
good at small talk with strangers, especially strangers she wants to
know more about. She wins people over with polite but inquisitive
questions about people’s personal lives for example when questioning
Lucy about her children, she asks “It’s three you’ve got, isn’t it?”
This may be the point at which Lucy is won over. I believe this
because this is the point where Lucy begins to respond with fuller
answers instead of the usual “yes” and “no”. As soon as Rosemary gets
a good excuse, (information about Harry, the husband), she set outs to
investigate the life of her neighbour, Lucy, who is clearly not
interested by what this woman has to say and is somewhat preoccupied
with her role as a mother as “she goes to listen for the children”.
When Rosemary enters the house, it seems as if Lucy constantly tries
to get rid off Rosemary with one-word answers such as “yes” and “no”,
but she is determined to tell Lucy the information she has about
Harry. Rosemary ignores the rudeness and reveals what she has to say.
The monologue from Rosemary, starting, “Yes” through to “husband”, is
a very long speech with pauses, illustrated with numerous hyphens,
showing that Rosemary is nervous about what reaction she will get; she
does not know whether Lucy still talks to her husband which is maybe
why she asks Lucy the questions at the beginning.
The relationship between Rosemary and her husband Terry is a marriage
that seems as if it was at first based on loving each other but over
time it has turned into Terry almost using Rosemary as a slave to care
for him. When Rosemary “Returns from the hall with Terry”, it implies
that Terry isn’t capable of doing anything for himself, not even
walking from one place to another without his wife by his side helping
him along the way.
Many people have a lot of pride and sometimes prides get the best of people Rex and Rosemary are perfect example of people who let pride affect their living condition.Many times they could have gotten help they needed but instead refused to accept any charity from anybody.Rex walls and Rosemary let pride stop their child from living a normal life.This show pride is a really big part in this story because it has the most impact on the character life’s.
The many special moments that were spent together, will never be relived again in the same capacity.
Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The mother" tells us about a mother who had many abortions. The speaker is addressing her children in explain to them why child could not have them. The internal conflict reveals that she regret killing her children or "small pups with a little or with no hair." The speaker tells what she will never do with her children that she killed. She will "never neglect", "beat", "silence", "buy with sweet", " scuffle off ghosts that come", "controlling your luscious sigh/ return for a snack", never hear them "giggled", "planned", and "cried." She also wishes she could see their "marriage", "aches", "stilted", play "games", and "deaths." She regrets even not giving them a "name" and "breaths." The mother knows that her decision will not let her forget by using the phrase "Abortions will not let you forget." The external conflict lets us know that she did not acted alone in her decision making. She mentions "believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate" and "whine that the crime was other than mine." The speaker is saying that her decision to have an abortion was not final yet but someone forced her into having it anyway. The external conflict is that she cannot forget the pain on the day of having the abortions. She mentions the "contracted" and "eased" that she felt having abortions.
Marsha Norman’s Night, Mother is a well-written, much-discussed play. It has become a classic piece of dramatic work and has also gone on to win a Pulitzer Prize award.
Victoria Marks’ most recent contemporary dance pieces all were fascinating, but the two that drew me in the most were “Men” and “Mothers And Daughters”. Both of these pieces made in the spring of 2014, focus on the idea of celebrating the life you have been given, leaving your mark on the world, and getting the most out of every opportunity you have to be with someone you care about. Victoria Marks is a dance professor at UCLA, who also choreographs dances for the stage, and films. “Marks’ recent work has considered the politics of citizenship, as well as the representation of both virtuosity and disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance-making within the sphere of political meaning.” Marks in both films “Men” and “Mothers And Daughters” believes that , "Your Dancing ability does not matter because we are all differently-abled", which is why she used both trained and untrained actors to create these two pieces of art.
Brooks was the first child of David and Keziah Brooks. She was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Brooks wrote her first poem when she was 13 years old and was published in the children’s. Moreover she was the first black author to win the Pulitzer prize. magazine. In 1938 she was married to Henry Blakely and had two children. After a long battle of cancer Brooks died in December 3, 2000.
The lack of support and affection protagonists, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, causes them to construct their lives on their own without a motherly figure. Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula, displays the development of Sula and Nel through childhood into adulthood. Before Sula and Nel enter the story, Morrison describes the history of the Peace and Wright family. The Peace family live abnormally to their town of Medallion, Ohio. Whereas the Wrights have a conventional life style, living up to society’s expectations.The importance of a healthy mother-daughter relationship is shown through the interactions of Eva and Hannah Peace, Hannah and Sula, and between Helene Wright and Nel. When Sula and Nel become friends they realize the improper parenting they
But every time he would come back to visit we would reminisce of all the times we fought and it would only make us laugh. The last time I saw him was at his wedding last year and sure enough one of our conversations was a story about when we fought. Looking back at it, our back and forth revenge only caused our relationship to strengthen over time. I think relationships can go either way, they can either cause a relationship to become stronger or it can cause a relationship to be
Mothers are often thought of and characterized as loving, generous women, who put their children before themselves. They are gracious, caring, and kind humans that are willing to sacrifice happiness and fulfillment in their lives to insure that their children receive the guidance, love, support, and happiness that every child (especially their own) deserves. Sadly, this description does not define the characteristics of all mothers. An example of a mother in which her mannerisms are the exact opposite of those depicted above is found in the character of Mrs. Hammond in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy, first published in 1812. Mrs. Hammond is an example of the realism found in the book. Combining realism such as this with romanticism makes Kelroy one of the best illustrations of a novel of manners.
In many of his plays, especially tragedies, William Shakespeare examines the relationships people have with one another. Of these relationships, he is particularly interested in those between family members, above all, those between parents and their children. In his play Hamlet, Shakespeare examines Prince Hamlet's relationships with his dead father, mother and step-father. His relationship with Gertrude, one of the only two women in the play, provides Hamlet with a deep sense of anger and pain. Hamlet feels that Gertrude has betrayed his father by marrying with his brother. Throughout the play, he is consumed with avenging his father's death and all the mistreatment the former King had suffered and still suffers after his life is over. Gertrude adds to the dead King's tarnished memory by not mourning and instead rejoicing in her new marriage. Hamlet is thus extremely angry with Gertrude and expresses this anger towards her directly and indirectly through his words, both to himself and to other characters.
Analysis of The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks. For this assignment, I chose the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is generally about abortion and the feelings a mother has. It's about the remembrance of the children aborted and the little things children do that the mother will miss.
...ame up with ideas of how we can make this work, autumnally it was going to end like seasons of the year. With the promise of taking Rachael to my senior prom to make what we had memorable didn’t happen. Rachael ended up just saying no to everything about us with no objective of a second chance.
It’s astonishing how suddenly relationships can collapse. One day, we were laughing together as she was smearing blue cake frosting all over my face. Sometime later, we were absolute strangers. Once in a while, I will look back on those four years we spent together and question why it ever happened. It was pointless to attempt to make the best out of something that was corrupt from the start.
... reason the engagement should not work out happily when resumed. But, like K., though he thought he was aware of and owned up to his own faults, he was still convicted for his denial and the engagement was again broken off.
I wonder what happened between the two of us? Did I not satisfy her? Did she become bored with me? Or worse yet, did I make her angry? Actually, upon reflection, I don’t think it was any of those things. I think she just grew up. As she got older, she would come to me less and less. She outgrew me and all that I could give her. ...