'Drama Assignment\r'

'LHE 3253 TEACHING THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA denomination 1 Dorothy Ting Siao Wei 153071 Dr. Habsah Bt Hussin Submission date: 19 Oct 2011 THE JEWELS OF THE SHRINE 1. One of the themes of this operate is false openhearted among family members. Quote the part(s) in the play where you can separate this theme. Through place the play the theme false family kind among family members is seen. first of either told, it is seen in the character of Bassi. Bassi is non related to Okorie at all scarcely is seen to be al trends most the house attending to Okorie.\r\nIt is as if she is his wife when she is not at all. She is actually espouse elsewhere and be make do kids. This is seen in several(prenominal) parts where she appears. â€Å" Bassi: It is enough, Grandfather. Long trounce make you tired. Come, your food is now ready. Okorie: Woman, I cannot eject. When contentment fills your heart, you cannot eat. ” From here we see how Bassi would advice Okorie to stop tal king and eat his meal. Her t star sounds ilk a wife who c ars for a husband kind of than a married char of a neighbor. â€Å"Bassi (h former(a)ing him and leading him to sit on the bed): You argon excited.\r\nYou populate that whenever you be excited, you begin to for posit things. Okorie: That is not my fault. It is old age. Well, exactly what was I saying? ” here(predicate) we even see Bassi sending Okorie to bed which could be securelyly seen in olden cadences. Bassi is a married woman with her give husband which she should be place to bed with alternatively than a senile old man. only if she did and she did in gently like how a wife would. perchance in that respect is a distressfulness of the treatment she gave but there’s no legit relationship that they make water.\r\nThe opposite place in the play where false relationship among family members is seen is when Arob and Ojuma started treating Okorie nicely fairish because they hear something like a abundant inheritance that they give motor if they treat him nicely and bury him with great honour. All of these can be seen in the following excerpts of the play. â€Å"Ojima: At last, poor Grandfather is g unmatch up to(p). I admiration if he know that we only played up just to lay down something from his result. Arob: Well, it didn’t matter to him. He believed us, and that is why he has left his veraciousty to us.\r\nA few months ago he would rather gain thr ingest it all into the sea. ” 2. From the language used by Okorie, Arob and Ojuma in their dialogue, what can you issue rough their relationship? Give two accompanimentors 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 wizard. Okorie doesn’t even call or refer to his grandsons as his grandsons but people and A rob and Ojuma didn’t let the cat out of the bag right on or with extol all the time.\r\nIn my opinion, angiotensin-converting enzyme of the factors contributing to the disintegration of family units and children neglecting their filial duties toward their elders is, the leave out of fitting discipline in the family. As seen in the play, Arob and Ojuma’s father passed away earlier than their grandfather, Okorie. No one disciplined them or brought them up in the proper sort. Okorie might pee-pee even spoilt them when they were younger so there was no m new(prenominal) wit of guardianship and respect from both of them towards their grandfather.\r\nThey cannot even see the section of their grandfather and appreciate him. They even in any casek e very(prenominal)thing that is his and sold them to vanquish whatever finances that they could get. They never had anyone to discipline them. The other factor that contributes to their misbehavior is a growing mother wit of selfishness that travel alongs with the welcoming of modernity. As seen and discussed by Okorie and the strira at the beginning of the play, it seemed like the society has been getting to a greater extent and more selfish and cruel that they don’t take c are of older people but abuse them in addition.\r\nWith the coming of new technologies, new information that first enters the city, more selfishness prevails and the people are getting crueler. They only think about their take in welfare, their own happiness and they just disregard for any other people, even the older people in their own family who are flesh and blood. It seemed like all that does not matter at all anymore. Everything is about their own pleasure and comfort and no one else. beget’S DAY 3. Mrs. Pearson’s difficulty in communicateing her mind and communicating the truth with her family had caused her much unhappiness.\r\nQuote the part(s) in the work out 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 mind and conveying the truth with her family. Firstly is when Mrs. Fitzgerald came to visit her at her house and they were talking nonchalantly when the subject of her unhappiness in her home came up. When Mrs. Fitzgerald advised her to be inviolable and do something about it she became justificatory saying, â€Å"That’s easier said than done. Besides, I’m so fond of them even if they are so thoughtless and selfish.\r\nThey don’t mean to be…” It shows that she does roll in the hay her family although they are thoughtless and selfish but she gave them in any case much leeway that they mistreated her by not thinking about her but only themselves. She finds it hard to speak her mind overly because she doesn’t like confrontations and she is mighty afraid to make others feel unpleasant. She doesn’t know how to tell t hem how she felt. She only drops hints to them. This is seen later when she said, â€Å"I †make dropping a hint…” and â€Å"… But I do hate any unpleasantness. And it’s so hard to know where to start.\r\nI keep making up my mind to have it out with them †but somehow I don’t know how to begin. ” It is also pretty obvious from the way she kept having pauses in her speaking and getting low and sending a aesthesis of hopelessness that she has very low confidence which, I believe contributed in her difficulty in communicating the truth with her family. steady when she talks to Mrs. Fitzgerald, she has piles of pauses as seen, â€Å"Mrs. Fitzgerald †I know you mean well †in fact, I curb with you †but I can’t †and it’s no use you trying to make me. If I promise you I’d really have it out with them, I know I wouldn’t be able to keep my promise. 4. Discuss in effect(p) communication skil ls that Mrs. Pearson should inculcate in herself to make her family be respectful of her and appreciate her more. Mrs. Pearson requisites to identify to speak more convinced(p)ly and by chance, be more self- stop upd about herself. If she kept creation 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 advantage 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 clear her as she executes orderliness in her family, establishing boundaries and a sense of respect within her family. Through that, her fami ly will respect her and she will be able to t separately and perhaps train them to have proper manners and a sense of respect for people especially towards her.\r\nIf 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 mess with. Mrs. Pearson needs to also speak all the way 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 rectify and treat her well. She cannot just throw hints at them because in general, a lot of people cannot pick up hints. Only those who are sensitive and does pay attention to little expound will pick up hints but these kind of people are rare unless the hints are too obvious to ignore.\r\nMrs. Pearson also needs to eliminate her terror of confrontation and fear of unpleasant atmospheres because confrontations are prerequisite to convey clear messages and not at all evil. Unpleasant atmospheres cannot be avoided totally also in all relationships as each(prenominal) human are unique, complete with strengths and weaknesses so certain unpleasantness will come naturally once in a go and it is not necessarily bad, just depending on how one deals with it and also the cause of it. A MARRIAGE scheme 5.\r\nIn this Play, conflict in the form of stemma 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 argument with Natalia about who owns the meadows when he was trying to envision to her. The argument went as followed: â€Å"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: excuse the interruption.\r\nYou said â€Å"my meadows” †but are they yours? LOMOV: Yes, they belong to me. NATALIA : What nonsensical! The meadows belong to us †not you! LOMOV: No, to me! Now, my dear Natalia Stepanovna! NATALIA: Well, this is for sure 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 arguing and then a serial of things happened and he got chased out of the house and asked to come back again to get engaged to Natalia.\r\n therefore the second conflict happened when they started talking about catch and they argued about whose dog is a better dog, Otkatai or Ugadi. The argument went as followed: â€Å"LOMOV: …Really? Otkatai is better than Ugadi? What an liking! Otkatai better than Ugadi! NATALIA: Of course he is better. It is true Otkatai is withal young; he isn’t full-grown yet, but in the pack or on the spark advance with two or three, there is no better than he, even- LOMOV: I really beg you rpardon, Natalia Stepanovna, but you rather overlooked the fact that he has a wretched lower jaw, and a dog with a hornswoggle lower jaw can’t snap.\r\nNATALIA: piffling lower jaw? That’s 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.\r\nLomov’s speech seemed too elaborated and containing too much details which are so unnecessary and long. If he learns to communicate clearly and directly while also respecting the other, it would have decrease so much miscommunicatio n. 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 heated up so fast-flying and raising their voice at each other. They need to look at the other’s side 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 other’s opinions.\r\nThey need to learn not to cross the boundary, to respect each other’s opinions and not to put down each other. They also need to work out their differences and look for each other’s 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 focussing 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.\r\n'