Tarra Kooker
Assignment 10
While reading the play “August: Osage County” the readers encounter many compelling and interesting characters. The character that seemed to be one of the most important and prominent in the play was the mother, Violet. Violet expressed many different emotions throughout the play, most being negative, but as the play continued to develop it is discovered that perhaps she wasn’t inherently a bad person. It can be argued that Violet was not an antagonist in the play, but was instead formed to be that way. Violet’s character was an abusive addict that drove her family out of her life, but I believe that she had no choice in her behavior, that her past experiences made her that way.
Violet when first introduced was …show more content…
I’ll be sickly sweet. I’m sooooooo sweet. In-el-abrially sweet” (Letts 14) exposing the affect her pill addiction has on her. Beverley keeping his cool appears to be innocent in the matter and is viewed as being a patient kind-hearted man that puts up with his wife’s issues and drinks the rest of the inconvenience away. However, it is later discovered how Beverly was an alcoholic for 50 years, before Violet’s pill problem turned into an addiction. Violet exposes this truth towards his problem in act two describing the event at the gala explaining, “Nobody talked about the good stuff. Man was a world-class alcoholic, more’n fifty years…Drank a whole bottle of rum, got up to give this talk... and he fouled himself!” (Letts 67). After receiving more details towards Beverley’s alcoholism it would make sense that Violet would develop an addiction of her own, especially after being diagnosed and prescribed with painkillers for her cancer. The readers are also informed of the story behind Beverly’s cheating antics when Violet says, “I told you, no one slips anything by me. I knew the whole time Bev and Mattie
Assignment 10
While reading the play “August: Osage County” the readers encounter many compelling and interesting characters. The character that seemed to be one of the most important and prominent in the play was the mother, Violet. Violet expressed many different emotions throughout the play, most being negative, but as the play continued to develop it is discovered that perhaps she wasn’t inherently a bad person. It can be argued that Violet was not an antagonist in the play, but was instead formed to be that way. Violet’s character was an abusive addict that drove her family out of her life, but I believe that she had no choice in her behavior, that her past experiences made her that way.
Violet when first introduced was …show more content…
I’ll be sickly sweet. I’m sooooooo sweet. In-el-abrially sweet” (Letts 14) exposing the affect her pill addiction has on her. Beverley keeping his cool appears to be innocent in the matter and is viewed as being a patient kind-hearted man that puts up with his wife’s issues and drinks the rest of the inconvenience away. However, it is later discovered how Beverly was an alcoholic for 50 years, before Violet’s pill problem turned into an addiction. Violet exposes this truth towards his problem in act two describing the event at the gala explaining, “Nobody talked about the good stuff. Man was a world-class alcoholic, more’n fifty years…Drank a whole bottle of rum, got up to give this talk... and he fouled himself!” (Letts 67). After receiving more details towards Beverley’s alcoholism it would make sense that Violet would develop an addiction of her own, especially after being diagnosed and prescribed with painkillers for her cancer. The readers are also informed of the story behind Beverly’s cheating antics when Violet says, “I told you, no one slips anything by me. I knew the whole time Bev and Mattie