Jeanell - english - Week 3 Assignment 1 - Characters Meet for Dinner
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- Oedipus
- Lysistrata
- Hamlet
- Ernest
- MEN, go home to your wives. Sleep with them since Athenians are unable to because of the war!
- Ernest, listen to your fate. Life is more than lust. Obey your fate and you shall see the truth.
- I have everything she needs, money and land. We would be so happy! I just want Lady Bracknell to allow me to take her daughter's hand in marriage.
- Do not remind me of the incestuous relationship of my uncle and mother.
- If the war would end, my husband would return home and occupy my time.
- My children, you must go on and live your lives. I have killed my father and married mine mother. I must leave Thebes and escape my past!
- I want to be with Gwendolyn. Together, we would be a perfect couple, and always be happy.
- I do not have anyone left, as my uncle killed my father and married my mother.
- Oedipus, Lysistrata, Hamlet, and Ernest have all met for dinner. They all seem worried for different reasons and are working together to help each other find solutions. Ernest is the one to bring up his problem first.
- Don't start a war. Just take another women to bed and that will resolve the problems you are having.
- O Hamlet, do not kill your uncle. Flee Denmark at once and your fate will guide you.
- I want to kill my uncle! Just like he killed my father!
- Hamlet, killing your own uncle will harm what others think about you and your family. It won't help bring back your dead father!
- In this scene, each character provides Ernest with advice on what he should do with Gwendolen who is madly in love with him. The next to reveal his worries is Oedipus.
- The fate of the Athenians rests on you, along with other women resisting temptation. Follow these orders and your fate will be corrected.
- My husband is off at war and I wish to sleep with him. The fate of the Athenians rests on women remaining strong and forcing our husbands to resist intimacy.
- I desire a life with Gwendolen. We are perfect together and nothing can separate us.
- Your frustrations are a result of another. Should violence be the solution?
- In this scene, Oedipus tells his tragic story and how he feels alone after what he has done. The other characters offer to listen to his worries. At the same time, they also reveal what they desire and that they feel alone as well. Here, each character reveals that they are lonely and have been left with very few or nobody else to confide in.
- My fate has caught up to me. Nothing I do can correct the fatal mistakes which I've made. I should have listened to those around me.
- Hamlet, the problems with your uncle can be fixed by talking to him and your mother!
- To be or not to be? That is the question.
- My friend, killing your uncle will not help. It will only tarnish your reputation without fixing the problem. Your reputation is what is most important!
- In this scene, each character provides Hamlet with advice about what he should do after discovering that Hamlet's uncle killed his father. They each suggest avoiding violence and moving forward. They also suggest that he should forgive his uncle and mother. The theme of forgiveness is demonstrated in this scene. When all characters urges Hamlet to let go of the past.
- Lysistrata expresses that she feels in control of Athens's fate because they are taking away sex from their husbands to end the war. Oedipus suggests that they need to continue to resist sexual temptation to succeed and correct their fate. However, Ernest remains focused on himself and Hamlet provides a possible solution.
- In the end, the problems which each character brought to the dinner are yet to be resolved. A central theme throughout each of these plays was free will vs fate. This was demonstrated by the four characters because they are not willing to listen to other's advice but instead wanted their decisions to be final.
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