Our Country's Good - Drama Exploration

Choose three or four characters from Cat’s Cradle and Good Country People and discuss them in terms of existentialism and nihilism?

That is when she really goes crazy,”What is happening I just started and there is already an intruder.”

When they have an encounter with the misfit, she constantly pleads for him not to

Feminism and Historicism play a major part in Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “Good Country People”, first published in 1955. The story focuses on the importance of identity and the parallels between truth and deception. In “Good Country People”, the Hopewell family, maintain a small farm in rural Georgia with the help of tenants the Freemans. The pious Mrs. Hopewell’s mottos ‘nothing is perfect’ and ‘it takes all kinds to make the world’ are manifested in her unmarried thirty-two year old daughter, Joy who later changes her name to Hulga, wears a prosthetic wooden leg because of a childhood accident. Hulga who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, cannot advance her academic aspirations because of a weak heart; because of this she must live in her

While being placed in handcuffs the driver began advising her was scared and did not know what to do.

Warm up your vocal cords because you’re going to want to sing along to this youth theatre company’s musical revue. The performance showcases a wide range of music – from energetic group numbers to stirring ballads that will have you weeping in your hanky. Whether you enjoy new smash hits like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen or classics like A Chorus Line and Hairspray, there’s something sure to please everyone.

“Hello Ms. Anthony. I’m here because you violated a law. I’m sorry Ms. Anthony, but I have to put you under arrest.” The officer said

They kept a safe distance from her and while the her half of the officers pointed the guns at Riley, another officer said to her, “ We won't shoot as long as you follow our commands. Now, get over here so we can put you in the dungeon. “

She admits to the officer she had been with one of her fathers’ employees, and was afraid of sexual charges that may be taken against

She says "its for you" and in a laughing, joking voice says, 'it looks like you're under arrest'

The police then go about explaining that they are allowed to do whatever they want to the lady, and will kill her. This could be related to our world, where, how some people

American culture values the drama that comes from people arguing, especially in modern media where headlines have turned into click-baits instead of insightful titles. We have come to value arguing with others instead of discussing issues with them. Most Donald Trump supporters do not even try to find out why Hillary Clinton supporters think that Hillary is the better candidate. Both men and women suffer from this ignorance because they do not develop as human beings and instead stay stubborn as they live their lives. Women however, are receiving the horrible end of the system. The anecdotes that Deborah Tannen provides in the article, “For Argument’s Sake; Why Do We Feel Compelled to Fight About Everything?” reveals how females are the most impacted victims of the argument culture because most of the situations that Tannen provided us have the female at the disadvantage of the argument culture. Throughout history, women have always been put second to men in patriarchal societies, resulting in women acting more passively than men. Although both genders are affected negatively by the argument culture, women are the main victims in the argument culture due to the passive nature of women that was encouraged by stereotypes built from a patriarchal American society.

Amira Baraka’s essay “The Revolutionary Theater” emerges from a time in history when the Civil Rights movement was at is largest. It was written in 1965 and was originally supposed to be published by New York Times but, it was rejected because the editor could not understand the language that was used. It was eventually published in Black Dialogue. While in some instances it is difficult to understand, Baraka’s words remain as an overwhelming powerful reminder and example of how African American’s felt about the condition that their everyday lives were in, and how it was now their time to live a free life without hate, violence, and discrimination.

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?

     There have been many dramatic plays over the centuries. Many of these plays have died in their time, while others have lived on. What makes these plays endure time and continue to be influential over time? Perhaps it is the storyline or the interesting nature of the play is what makes these dramas last. I think that it is the focus on human nature and its essential truths that keep these plays alive. Most of the plays, still enacted in theaters today, deal with social issues that people can learn from and relate to.