Tuesday, October 30, 2007

1.) How can we compare the romantic dynamic between Julietta, Trier and Lord Bonvile to others we have seen so far, especially in regards to issues of social status, the idea of virtue, and the sexual double standard?

2.) Multiple characters within Hyde Park express the opinion that the only way to deal with the opposite sex is to sever themselves from it. (Fairfield, for example, gives a very dramatic interpretation of this sentiment when he suggests that the only way he can "triumph" over women is to geld himself.) How does wit and/or witty duplicity undercut or exacerbate this tension, and do the pairings at the play's conclusion reconcile or simply obscure the expressions of the (social) incompatibilities between men and women?

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