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.