Drama Assignment

LHE 3253 TEACHING THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA Assignment 1 Dorothy sound Siao Wei 153071 Dr. Habsah Bt Hussin Submission date 19 Oct 2011 THE JEWELS OF THE SHRINE 1. One of the themes of this play isfalse bloodamong family members. Quote the p fine art(s) in the play where you cannister discern this theme. Throughout the play the theme false relationship among family members is tick mop upn. Firstly, it is contriven in the citation of Bassi. Bassi is not related to Okorie at all unless is seen to be always around the ho exercise aid to Okorie.It is as if she is his wife when she is not at all. She is actually married elsewhere and piss kids. This is seen in some(prenominal) parts where she appears. Bassi It is enough, Grandfather. Long talk make you tired. Come, your food is now ready. Okorie Woman, I cannot eat. When happiness fills your heart, you cannot eat. From here we see how Bassi would advice Okorie to stop talking and eat his meal. Her tone sounds equivalent a wife w ho c bes for a husband sort of than a married woman of a neighbor. Bassi (holding him and leading him to sit on the bed) You be excited.You get along that whenever you are excited, you begin to for becharm things. Okorie That is not my fault. It is old age. Well, hardly what was I saying? Here we even see Bassi sending Okorie to bed which could be hardly seen in olden times. Bassi is a married woman with her hold husband which she should be attributeting to bed with rather than a senile old man. But she did and she did in gently like how a wife would. Perhaps in that respect is a sincerity of the spread overment she gave but theres no legit relationship that they have.The separate place in the play where false relationship among family members is seen is when Arob and Ojuma started treating Okorie nicely entirely because they heard something like a great inheritance that they ordain get if they treat him nicely and bury him with great honour. All of these can be seen in the following excerpts of the play. Ojima At last, hapless Grandfather is gone. I wonder if he know that we only played up just to get something from his willing. Arob Well, it didnt matter to him. He believed us, and that is why he has left his property to us.A few months ago he would rather have thrown it all into the sea. 2. From the language use by Okorie, Arob and Ojuma in their dialogue, what can you discern about their relationship? Give two factors contributing to the disintegration of family units and children neglecting their filial duties toward their elders. From the language used by Okorie, Arob and Ojuma in their dialogue, it seemed like their relationship is not a good one. Okorie doesnt even list or refer to his grandsons as his grandsons but people and Arob and Ojuma didnt speak properly or with take note all the time.In my opinion, one of the factors contributing to the disintegration of family units and children neglecting their filial duties toward their e lders is, the lack of proper discipline in the family. As seen in the play, Arob and Ojumas father passed away earlier than their grandfather, Okorie. No one disciplined them or brought them up in the proper manner. Okorie might have even spoilt them when they were younger so there was no sense of business and respect from both of them towards their grandfather.They cannot even see the contribution of their grandfather and evaluate him. They even took everything that is his and sold them to get whatever finances that they could get. They never had anyone to discipline them. The other factor that contributes to their misdeed is a growing sense of selfishness that comes with the welcoming of modernity. As seen and dissertateed by Okorie and the stranger at the beginning of the play, it seemed like the society has been getting to a greater extent and oft selfish and cruel that they dont take complaint of older people but mistreat them too.With the coming of new technologies, new development that first enters the city, to a greater extent selfishness prevails and the people are getting crueler. They only think about their own welfare, their own happiness and they just disregard for any other people, even the older people in their own family who are figure of speech and blood. It seemed like all that does not matter at all any more(prenominal). Everything is about their own pleasure and consolation and no one else. MOTHERS DAY 3. Mrs. Pearsons difficulty in speaking her in tellectual and communicating the truth with her family had caused her much gloominess.Quote the part(s) in the Play where you can discern this quality in Mrs. Pearson. there are several parts in the play where Mrs. Pearson depicts her difficulty in speaking her bear in point and conveying the truth with her family. Firstly is when Mrs. Fitzgerald came to visit her at her house and they were talking casually when the subject of her unhappiness in her home came up. When Mrs. Fitzgerald advised her to be firm and do something about it she became apologetic saying, Thats easier give tongue to than done. Besides, Im so fond of them even if they are so thoughtless and selfish.They dont mean to be It shows that she does love her family although they are thoughtless and selfish but she gave them too much valuation reserve that they mistreated her by not thinking about her but only themselves. She finds it hard to speak her mind overly because she doesnt like confrontations and she is mighty afraid to make others feel unpleasant. She doesnt know how to tell them how she felt. She only drops hints to them. This is seen later when she said, I keep dropping a hint and But I do hate any unpleasantness. And its so hard to know where to start.I keep making up my mind to have it out with them but somehow I dont know how to begin. It is as well as pretty obvious from the way she kept having pauses in her speaking and getting embarrassed and sending a sense of hopelessnes s that she has very low confidence which, I believe contributed in her difficulty in communicating the truth with her family. Even when she talks to Mrs. Fitzgerald, she has lots of pauses as seen, Mrs. Fitzgerald I know you mean healthy in fact, I agree with you but I cant and its no use you assay to make me. If I promise you Id in truth have it out with them, I know I wouldnt be able to keep my promise. 4. Discuss effective communication skills that Mrs. Pearson should inform in herself to make her family be respectful of her and appreciate her more. Mrs. Pearson needs to learn to speak more confidently and perhaps, be more confident about herself. If she kept being not confident about herself, she will not get anywhere. Her lack of confidence shows in her communication and her family, who seemed to consist of stronger personalities will take good of her lack of confidence and mistreat her. Mrs. Pearson needs to know her role in the family is a mother and a wife and not a servant and she eeds to realize that she needs to stand firm and strong in her role in the family as a mother and a wife by speaking more with confidence and a sense of authority and eliminate her habit of always being apologetic and trying to explain. This will help her family recognize her as she executes orderliness in her family, establishing boundaries and a sense of respect at heart her family. Through that, her family will respect her and she will be able to teach and perhaps train them to have proper manners and a sense of respect for people especially towards her.If she is able to establish that, her family will not step all over her and know that she is serious and not one to simply ken with. Mrs. Pearson needs to also speak clearly and directly to her family, to convey her true wishes to them so that they will know what she wants, how she feels and what she wants them to do and they will be able to understand her better and treat her well. She cannot just throw hints a t them because in general, a lot of people cannot pick up hints. Only those who are sensitive and does remunerate attention to little details will pick up hints but these kind of people are rare unless the hints are too obvious to ignore.Mrs. Pearson also needs to eliminate her fear of confrontation and fear of unpleasant atmospheres because confrontations are necessary to convey clear messages and not at all evil. Unpleasant atmospheres cannot be avoided totally also in all relationships as each human are unique, complete with strengths and weaknesses so certain unpleasantness will come naturally once in a while and it is not ineluctably bad, just depending on how one deals with it and also the cause of it. A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 5.In this Play, contest in the form of argument prevents Lomov from asking Natalia to marry him. Extract sample dialogues from the Play to indicate where the conflicts are. There are two conflicts that happened in the play. Firstly, Lomov got into an argum ent with Natalia about who owns the meadows when he was trying to propose to her. The argument went as followed LOMOV and my property, as you know, adjoins your own. If you will be so good as to remember, my meadows touch your birchwoods. NATALIA Pardon the interruption.You said my meadows but are they yours? LOMOV Yes, they belong to me. NATALIA What nonsense The meadows belong to us not you LOMOV No, to me Now, my dear Natalia Stepanovna NATALIA Well, this is certainly news to me. How do they belong to you? LOMOV How? I am speaking of the meadows lying between your birchwoods and my brick earth. NATALIA Yes, exactly. They belong to us Lomov and Natalia continued lay out and then a series of things happened and he got chased out of the house and asked to come back once again to get engaged to Natalia.Then the second conflict happened when they started talking about hunting and they argued about whose chink is a better dog, Otkatai or Ugadi. The argument went as followed LOMO V Really? Otkatai is better than Ugadi? What an idea Otkatai better than Ugadi NATALIA Of sort he is better. It is true Otkatai is still young he isnt full-grown yet, but in the engage or on the leash with two or three, there is no better than he, even- LOMOV I really beg you rpardon, Natalia Stepanovna, but you quite overlooked the fact that he has a short lower twit, and a dog with a short lower reproof cant snap.NATALIA Short lower jaw? Thats the first time I ever heard that LOMOV I assure you, his lower jaw is shorter than the upper. NATALIA Have you measured it? LOMOV I have measured it. He is good at running though Their argument, yet again, went on for a while and Tschubukov came in and forced them to quickly get engaged. Right after they are engaged, they continued with their arguing. 6. If Natalia and Lomov get married, what should they do to minimize conflicts in their marriage? If Natalia and Lomov get married, they should learn the art of communication.Lomovs speech seemed too elaborated and containing too much details which are so redundant and long. If he learns to communicate clearly and directly while also respecting the other, it would have lessened so much miscommunication. Natalia should also learn to be less sensitive over petty issues. Perhaps the issue of who the meadow belongs to is important for her but she could have expressed her disagreement in a gentler manner without flying off the handle and her opinions could have been easier to be taken in. Both of them should learn how to manage their anger and know ow to discuss issues or difference of opinions in a more civilized manner rather than getting heat up up so fast and raising their voice at each other. They need to look at the others perspective and try to be more understanding. They could have responded in a more neutral manner and there would not have much conflict. They should also learn to be more selfless and put each other higher than themselves. From the way they have argued, they seemed rather selfish, insisting that they themselves are right instead of tolerating each other and they also go to the point of degrading the others opinions.They need to learn not to cross the boundary, to respect each others opinions and not to put down each other. They also need to work out their differences and look for each others similarities. Natalie really wanted to marry Lomov so obviously there is something that she likes about him and the fact that Lomov went to propose to Natalia also indicates that there is attraction. They need to focus on the good points, especially the things they love about each other and always be reminded of that and not let petty arguments get in the way.