1. The Influential Anima Archetyp
Most aspiring actors wish to follow an established actor's career path – their choices in roles, their style, their sheer excellence. One that many young female stage actresses might look up to is Laura Benanti, who originated the role of Catherine Givings in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play. She describes the character as having a "childlike way of being. She knows she wants something; she doesn't know what it is or how to get it" (qtd. in Kachka). What she wants is to discover what is hidden in "the other room," – the instrument her husband is using to create "paroxysms" on his patients. Mrs. Givings finds the beauty of being a woman through the realization of her own sexual intelligence, ultimately tearing down the literal and figurative walls separating the genders in the play, making Ruhl's piece a commentary on the role of the woman within the relationship of husband and wife.
In order to understand Mrs. Givings' frustration with herself and her desire for more, it is important to understand the Women Question, the theory put forth in For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English. The Woman Question details the roles of man and woman, questioning how much those roles have changed since the Old Order. In the Old Order, the world was father-centered above all else, but "the skills and work of women are indispensable to survival. Woman is always subordinate, but she is far from being a helpless dependent (Ehrenreich and English). While it might be assumed that the tasks of an Old Order woman were deemed unimportant, she was truly the reason the family stayed intact. She did have to answer to those higher than her, – the men – but it was recognized that without her, life as a family would cease to exist. Mrs. Givings has the mentality that she has failed on this level, as she is unable to provide food for her child.
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"I believe in its discovery." ... Although in her works she has seemed to be seeking the classical ideal of perfection in pure geometry, she has often asserted, in essays and in interviews, that she does not paint "scientific discoveries or philosophies" but what she has called "the holiday state of mind." ... Mrs. ... The slight changes of spacing between the columns of dashes give the seemingly static, formal composition vitality and movement. ... The artist also experimented with collages constructed of small pieces of colored canvas or wood or, as in The Garden (1958), of various found ob...
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