Monday, April 26, 2010
Twelfth Night and Trona
Twelfth Night does have a connection to Trona. How? because they are, indeed, quite different. They have different time periods, different kinds of characters, different humor. But they can be the same. In Twelfth Night, the story starts at a certain normalcy, and then things get twisted and turned so that the normalcy is no longer. At some point, a new normalcy is established and that becomes the sustained normalcy. Ray starts his life, at his form of normalcy. Everyday he sits in his booth reminding each person to "take a mint." He continues his ride home, pays his five dollars to get into his own home, greets his all to strange wife, eats the same food and goes to bed the same way. That's Ray's normalcy. Yet, he one day comes home to find his wife cheating on him. That is when his normalcy changes. He wifes leaves and his son no longer identifies himself as his son. Dirk further abuses the town, his mother dies and he finds himself alone. He decides to unite the town and over run Dirk, which is when their new normalcy is established. There is water in the town, no longer run by Dirk and Ray lives fruitfully with his new wife and child on the way.
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It seems to me that you are trying to say that what may seem normal to one person may seem the opposite to others. Ray thinks his life is normal (also boring), but normal. Whereas to us, he seems like he's completely lost touch with reality. Likewise with Twelfth Night they perceive normalcy in a very different way than we do, but it works for them. Then, after the climax of outrageousness they reach a new normalcy. So, everyone may think that they are normal when really to another person they may be seen as weird. Am I on the right track with what your trying to get at?
ReplyDeleteNot quite... What I'm saying is that what's normal for them get twisted so that a new normalcy is created. For example, it was normal for them to pay Dirk $5 to live in the town or that he makes money off of his meth lab where he sells drugs to the residents. Then things change and Dirk turns off the power, ruins the gas station... things go array. Things are no longer normal, but the town is willing to accept it. Ray doesn't and decides to make a change. At the end, a new normal life is established.
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