How I Learned To Drive

This play was truly meant to for an adult audience. I didn't have to try to hard to be curious with this one. Although, due to my lack of experience with true stage plays, I have no idea how to speak on the Greek chorus. I tried to understand what he script writer was trying to do yet, my mind kept going back to the characters of grandfather, mother, grandmother, and aunt as just singular characters. I know I may seem a little on the ditzy side with this play, but I simply can't decider the need for a Greek chorus. True, the pay is set in the 1950s 1960s era, yet I can't understand the need for the chorus. Maybe the chorus stands for the modern family at that time. What they expected of their young women and how the young lady should act. For example, when the female chorus (mother) was coaching her daughter on how to drink. It wasn't acceptable for a lady to get sloppy drunk, but tipsy. It was very informal from what not to drink to what to eat. The directions were so clear that the chorus of women could be used as the examples of how all women should act. The same with the male chorus. When lil bit is asked to accompany her young male friend. Not only does he answer yes,  but the male chorus does the same, representing what all men or young boys think and do in his situation. The choruses represent how the rest of society thinks aside from lil bit's and Uncle Peck's thinking.

Conduct of Life

Different from the others plays in that it has its level of violence. The rape, the abusiveness, and the servant stuck in the basement was a total bizarre turn. The womb had been raped and was accustomed to the abusiveness done to her by the male character, so she had basically tolerated it until she had come to discover the slave in the basement. When she had finally taken a stand, that was what took me by surprised. Why had it taken her all this time to renounce what had been taken place. Sure she had gotten into a slapping match, but that horrible rape scene in the beginning was what set the whole peculiarity of this play. For a a very simple reason, Olympia had decided enough was enough, leaving me thinking that it was just a little too late. She had already given place to what has happened multiple times due to the abusive nature of Orlando. The house setting represents what happened in the country due to government regulations. The head, the followers and the victims. Although an unusual play, it speaks volumes.