How I Learned to Drive

I believe Vogel chose the Greek Corus to put an emphasis on just Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck's lines. With just the two of them portraying their lines solo, you pay more attention to the emotions of the lines, and the reactions between the two of them. It's kind of a way of centralizing the focous on just the two of them, yet still showing what everyone else was saying about them.

At first, i didn't understand why she chose to put the scence where she, Li'l Bit, was 11 towards the end. I personally prefer a chronilogical order to a play, mainly so i can keep track of things. When i got over my OCD tendencies, and after talking to a few people, i realized the strength of this choice. By doing this, she left us questioning the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck. When did their relationship began? Who initiated it? Why didn't anyone warn Li'l Bit? Ect. This secene did alot of things. It answered our questions, showed us Li'l Bit wasn't naieve to her uncles feelings at all, and that she was partially to blame. It also answered the the question of "Where was her mother, and why wasn't she saying anything." her mother specifically warned her, and cautioned her, but Li'l Bit went anyway.

The Conduct of Life

One made choice that satnds out to me is how Fornes chose to make Nena sympathetically aware. In Scence 15, when Nena is talking to Olimpia, she makes the comment, "...And if someone should treat me unkindly, I should not blind myself with rage, but I should see them and recieve them, since maybe they are in worse pain than me." Before Nena brought this though to light, the audience viewd her as the sympathetic character. However, she took that assumption of her away from us. I fell as though she was bascially say, "it's not me you need to sympathize for, it's the ones who bring the pain onto me." The thought of it leaves me speachless because she refuses to pity herself, or for others to have pity on her. In that one sentence she proves not only to herself, but to everyone else, that's shes far stronger than what we think; she just knows that the only way to make him, Orlando, feel better is to sucum to whatever it is he wants. In a way, this also puts Orlando under her. Even though he believes he's the strongest of them all because he tortures, and rapes, and commands over all the women in the house, Nena's the strongest of them all because she accepts the problems and difficulties life has handed her, but does the best she can with them. Again, i'm just so speachless because she gives her character this remarkable strength with just one line.

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I, personally, believe this is called The Conduct of Life because this plays shows different type of people and the way their lifes either intertwine, or effect one another.