By Sungii
Sungii: So I just read this very intriguing play about a man and a woman who seemed to be quite the opposite of each other. They were both about to get married, but the play ended... awkwardly?
Naruto: You don't know how it ended?
Sungii: No, I know. I just can't tell what's going to happen after.
Naruto: Did the play not have a conclusion?
Sungii: Not really. Well maybe it did, but its resolution is very unclear.
Naruto: What happened?
Sungii: A bunch of trivial arguments, mainly from the man. He seemed very uptight and unresponsive to a lot of things, so he then made pretty harsh comments about them to his soon to be wife. It felt like he took his anger out on her.
Naruto: Really!?
Sungii: Yeah! I mean he describes their meeting of each other to be a 'convenience'. That sounds pretty harsh to me. Especially harsh to tell your future wife who loves you so much! She's so sweet and loving to him, and he's the exact opposite to her! This angers me.
Naruto: That does sound pretty bad, but maybe we're misjudging him. Maybe we're misunderstanding his true intentions. Maybe that's why she wants to marry him, because she can look beyond his characteristics on the outside and see probably some kind of sweet affection deep inside him. I don't know, that's just a thought.
Sungii: ...
Naruto: I mean if you think about it how often do you disobey your parents? How often do you do something that makes them angry? Yet, they still love you despite all those many times.
Sungii: ...
Naruto: I guess for a couple it's going to be a bit different because love varies for each kind of relationship, but I still think that maybe it's still a bit more than just being compatible with one another. Maybe a sweet handsome guy won't always marry a sweet and beautiful woman.
Sungii: I still don't quite underst.... Wait I think I get it!
Naruto: Yeah?!
Sungii: It's kind of like one of Shakespeare's plays - the Taming of the Shrew. Do you know the play?
Naruto: No I do not, tell me!
Sungii: In the play there is a girl named Katherine is the shrew in the play. She had a beautiful and supposedly very obedient and kind sister that all men wanted to marry - named Bianca. Their father however did not want Katherine to be without a husband so he made it a point that no one would be allowed to marry Bianca until Katherine was married. Later along came a man named Petruchio, who was ready to settle down and fall in love with a woman. His friend saw this as an opportunity and decided that he ought to get Petruchio to marry Katherine, and he did. Katherine as expected was very hard to be patient and loving with, but Petruchio had a way of changing her personality. He decided that he would show her what she did to him and others by reflecting her actions. This slowly started to change her and she became a woman who was loving, caring, sweet and affectionate for him. She completely changed her characteristics and towards the end she became a more obedient and loving wife than her sister who everyone thought was the best wife there could be.
Naruto: Wow! That's great! So you already understand that in couples things can work out! But back to the play you were describing to me - The Man in a Case right?
Sungii: Yeah! That's the one!
Naruto: I found it and read it. You know what caught my attention?
Sungii: Tell me!
Naruto: At the very end of the play it said: "Varinka pedals off. Byelinkov, alone in the garden, takes out his bad and rips up the note about the lilac, strews it over the garden, then carefully picks up each piece of paper and places them all in a small envelope as lights fade to black."
Sungii: ...
Naruto: This is probably the most interesting part in the play
Sungii: But what does that mean?
Naruto: To be honest, we can't really say because we don't know what he was thinking. I just hope that he represents the same kind of accommodation we hoped love could bring out in people.
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