Paula Vogel Essays

Misunderstandings As represented in the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor, a good man was hard to be and had different ideas of how to pursue it. Going through the journey with the grandmother and her family learning about the Misfit, the audience can witness the actions being made by different characters to witness their fall and/or their triumph. When looking into the grandmother more deeply, the audience can detect the intensity of her self absorption. She would consider

The play How I learned to Drive is an original play by American writer, Paula Vogel. The first premiered on March 16, 1997 Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Paula Vogel was assisted on the play but Molly Smith, as the artistic director, at the Perseverance Theatre in Alaska. The play is about a woman named Li’l Bit who learns how to drive and the life behind the wheel of a car. The play begins with Li’l Bit and her Uncle Peck (Aunt’s husband) sitting in a car parking lot and Uncle unstraps her

In How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel uses several techniques of Brecht’s Epic Theatre. Some of them are the alienation effect, direct address to the audience and disruption of time. The purpose of the alienation affect is to distance the audience and to provoke them to think about what they are seeing. It does not involve an emotional response, but rather a rational one. How I Learned to Drive is a memory play that deals with issues of sexual abuse and victimization, but it is also a play that

of Abuse and Morality in Society Child abuse is regarded as one of the most heinous crimes in society. During the past few decades, social awareness regarding child abuse has reached a new high. In the award winning play How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel explores the subject of child abuse through the life of Lil Bit. In the play, Lil Bit recalls her journey to adulthood through a broken chronology revolving around driving lessons. The play is centered on the increasingly intimate relationship between

One Mistake “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is often buried with their bones.” A quote with great significance. Even though it was applied to life many years ago in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, it still stands strong in today’s world. Many times the public images of great people have been utterly destroyed due to one wrong doing that would never be forgotten, yet no one wants to remember the person for who they actually were. It seems to be a terrible pattern among humanity

In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, it is vivid that gender roles were part of society in the 1930s. Scout Finch, a little girl, shows that being a girl doesn’t define her personality or actions. Although this book was published in 1960 and was set in the 1930s, the contention of gender roles is still prominent in today’s civilization. All the way through chapter five, it is well known that gender roles are a part of mankind during the Great Depression. Scout narrated, “I was not

In the play, “How I Learned to Drive” written by Paula Vogel a young woman nicknamed Li’l Bit has a sexual relationship with her uncle Peck. When Li’l Bit was eleven years old, her uncle Peck showed her how to drive which is how it all started. Throughout the play an extreme deal of growth of maturity occurs with forgiveness and love. Li’l Bit is the innocent in the play. First, the relationship she has with her uncle, and the way her other family members treat her, relating to the fact that her

The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel is a play about a family of five, and their experience on Christmas day, as well as the future of the three children. I believe that this was meant to take place in the early-sixties to the late-seventies because of the mother’s housewife role in the play, and the way the grandfather would accept the mistreatment of his own daughter from her husband, but would stand up for the mistreatment of his grandson—a clearly sexist view that would not be accepted

the other life she is living. Due to her only knowing and understanding this lifestyle, she never tries to put a stop to it or the actions taking place. As stated in the stage directions “[Li’l Bit] relaxes against him, silent, accepting his touch” (Vogel 2217) Another reason as to why Li’l Bit does not fight against what is happening to her is because she is worried about and cares for her Uncle Peck. She feels guilty and remorseful for what is happening because of her aunt, but she has no way of stopping

“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.” George Santayana Drama is one of the genres of theatre where comedy, tragedy or actions may be other genres. While drama refers to the written texts, prose or verses composition, which become theatre only when it is performed on the stage with actors performing