Comparing Rasselas And Mrs. Warren's Profession

If Rasselas from Rasselas fell in love during his adventure outside the Happy Valley, I think he would fall in love with Vivie from Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and following shows exactly how. A mix of Rasselas and Mrs. Warren’s Profession would produce the scene below. It involves the failure of Vivie by her turning her back on her firm stance that there is “no romance in life for (her)” (432). Vivie’s “romantic logic switch has been turned on by Rasselas, this cunning, knowledgeable, wealthy heir of his own empire. Who could resist this? Not even a college graduate, especially not one who cut ties with the last person in her family she communicated with. Plus, a girl with daddy issues would not be opposed to adopting a new “daddy” figure in the form of sugar daddy. As a knowledgeable businesswoman, she understands marrying wealthy, and someone who she could develop some sort of romantic connection with will not hurt her in the long run. In this sense she fails because she is succumbing to romance with the suave Rasselas, but at a certain point if her stance on romance has been …show more content…
It was a long night for him, thinking about the directions his life could have gone had he decided to pursue professing over coming back to the Happy Valley (a sort of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf situation). Vivie, slightly larger after giving birth to the future heirs of the Happy Valley, is watching the sunrise from her balcony one morning while holding a glass of wine (it has already been a long day for her) and thinking to herself, did I make the right decision, as she does every morning, but at the end of this, the scene ends and, like the unsatisfying ending of both Shaw’s and Johnson’s pieces, the reader is left to figure and react what might occur after the curtain closes, whether it is disappointment, enjoyment, catharsis, or any other emotion under the rising sun that ended their viewing