Friday, January 30, 2009

Delegate Educate Discriminate Eviscerate

In this play the aristocrats and the servants seem like two separate species of humans. To me, the servants are the smarter of the two parties. They have good times, and the women and men communicate freely in a much more equal manner than the aristocrats. To adress the question of why did Frankford's marriage break up and what are the implications of it I am unsure. Frankford's marriage broke up because his wife cheated on him. To me, a product of my time and culture, Frankford was using his authority appropriately. Part of having authority is delegating. He delegated some authority to Wendoll when he left. To me, he was just being confident in his marriage and confident in his wife's love of him. This seems reasonable and how a woman would want to be treated. However, his delegation leads to infidelity. Now, I am no good with relationships, these things are not just problems of the past so I would like to learn from this. Let's not play the blame game and spend times pointing fingers. Rather, let's try to be positive. I take the view that Heywood thinks the aristocratic vesion of marriage is foolish. If Anne cheated on Frankford because he gave authority over that makes me sad, and maybe that is Heywood's way to point out how silly of a way to be married that is. Another way Heywood negates Whately's view is his ability to write the servants. They are the ones without the problems, they are the ones who have the good times, and they are the ones who first see the signs of infidelity. Heywood writes them as such. In other words they see truth, the better way to live.

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