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Enduring Love Act 2

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In the Act 2, the need of liberation of any kind of mold in the society is depicted in a more vivid way. Another case of an issue of homosexuality among others in the play, it is in Act 2 between the character of Lin and his little daughter Cathy. Throughout the Act 2, it is obvious the fact that Lin is attracted to women and generally through her presence in the play it is shown that she has an aversion to the opposite sex. In a moment in the play, when Lin talks with Victoria, she reveals that she hates men that become apparent through the following excerpt “Lin: I hate men… hate the bastards” (Caryl Churchill 292). That feeling of repulsion that Lin has for men, wants to transfer to her daughter. That is pronounced through her attitude towards to her and generally the way that she educates her. …show more content…

In addition to these the way that Cathy talks and the fact that she does not play with dolls, like every girl in her age, but with guns, are revealing and enhancing the fact that she is acting like a boy rather a girl at the age of four. So as the play to support the trial of Lin to make her daughter have the same preferences as her, it uses a male actor to imitate Cathy’s figure. The difference becomes more vivid because in Act 2 is the only character which is played by the opposite sex, all the others characters have their corresponding sex. However apart from the attempt of Lin who tries tο inculcate to her daughter some particular view about her sexual preferences; there are no others actual indications that show that Cathy is a homosexual girl. Instead of that later in the play Cathy wears a pink dress despite that her mother buys her jeans, but she chose to be dressed in this way because some of her friends mocked her about her appearance (Caryl Churchill

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