Love and marriage are two different perspectives that are experienced and viewed differently by humans in today’s life. Love can be defined as to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family ; world. Marriage is a legally accepted relationship between a woman and a man in which they live as husband and wife, or the official ceremony which results in this. You might be wondering why I am sharing this topic as part of my fourth blog. This is because for our first and second session of the tutorial session, we were given two texts which are ‘The Ring Doesn’t Fit’ by Tan Kee Aun and ‘The Ring’ by Vincent Jeremiah Edwin. It’s was an interesting play with different elements of love and marriage that are being shared by the writer to the audience.
As for the play ‘The Ring Doesn’t Fit’ by Tan Kee Aun, the story mainly revolves around Paul, the bridegroom to be and Adelyn, the bride to be. In the first scene itself, the mother viewed marriage as one of the modus operandi of discovering more about your partner after Adelyn felt that she was uncertain of being perfect. In the scene 2, it mainly focuses on how Aunt Mira and Paul look at the marriage. Even though Paul felt the same way as Adelyn felt, which was uncertain of being perfect, but he was quite loyal to his spouse especially when he mentioned that marriage is a once in a lifetime thing. Aunt Mira also played a part here by explaining her view about marriage when she stressed that in marriage, no one is good enough and that’s why it’s called love. Forty-three years of marriage and he still hasn’t… It shows that she is an optimistic lady and can accept the weakness of her husband even though they are married for such a long time. As for the scene 3, it’s all about Adelyn, who wants to be a perfectionist where she wants everything to be perfect and in order. Here, the writer indirectly brought a message regarding the gender treatment where the females are always worrying for the details and are more serious unlike the males. At the end of the play, it was a happy ending for both of them as they were pronounced as husband and wife even though they had some contradicting perceptions about marriage at the very beginning of the play.
As for the play ‘The Ring’ by Vincent Jeremiah Edwin, it’s about a troubled boy seeks the companionship of an imaginary person who may or may not be a demon. To keep her existence for him, he cuts himself to give her his blood. The most interesting part of the play is the poem which is being revealed to express the feelings of young love. The two main characters of this play are Raj, a troubled young man and Leila, his imaginary demon girlfriend. There are few scenes in this play. It’s about Raj, who fells for his girlfriend @ demon where he is willingly cut himself to feed his imaginary girlfriend for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It indirectly shows that he doesn’t want to lose her. At the end, Raj mother notices that it was something wrong with Raj. Hence, she sent Raj to the mental hospital and eventually there is no one to feed Leila. If Raj wants to continue feeding her, the hospital authority will keep him longer in the hosptial for further treatments. So, Leila walks away from Raj’s life and he is left alone and sobbing. Basically, this play brought a message about love where the writer stressed that love is a sacrifice and desperate feeling of owning someone. Meanwhile, the ring symbolizes the pain that they went through.
In conclusion, both plays was a great platform for me to have a better understanding of what is love and marriage, where the writer presented the different perceptions and thoughts about love and marriage to the audiences.
As for the play ‘The Ring Doesn’t Fit’ by Tan Kee Aun, the story mainly revolves around Paul, the bridegroom to be and Adelyn, the bride to be. In the first scene itself, the mother viewed marriage as one of the modus operandi of discovering more about your partner after Adelyn felt that she was uncertain of being perfect. In the scene 2, it mainly focuses on how Aunt Mira and Paul look at the marriage. Even though Paul felt the same way as Adelyn felt, which was uncertain of being perfect, but he was quite loyal to his spouse especially when he mentioned that marriage is a once in a lifetime thing. Aunt Mira also played a part here by explaining her view about marriage when she stressed that in marriage, no one is good enough and that’s why it’s called love. Forty-three years of marriage and he still hasn’t… It shows that she is an optimistic lady and can accept the weakness of her husband even though they are married for such a long time. As for the scene 3, it’s all about Adelyn, who wants to be a perfectionist where she wants everything to be perfect and in order. Here, the writer indirectly brought a message regarding the gender treatment where the females are always worrying for the details and are more serious unlike the males. At the end of the play, it was a happy ending for both of them as they were pronounced as husband and wife even though they had some contradicting perceptions about marriage at the very beginning of the play.
As for the play ‘The Ring’ by Vincent Jeremiah Edwin, it’s about a troubled boy seeks the companionship of an imaginary person who may or may not be a demon. To keep her existence for him, he cuts himself to give her his blood. The most interesting part of the play is the poem which is being revealed to express the feelings of young love. The two main characters of this play are Raj, a troubled young man and Leila, his imaginary demon girlfriend. There are few scenes in this play. It’s about Raj, who fells for his girlfriend @ demon where he is willingly cut himself to feed his imaginary girlfriend for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It indirectly shows that he doesn’t want to lose her. At the end, Raj mother notices that it was something wrong with Raj. Hence, she sent Raj to the mental hospital and eventually there is no one to feed Leila. If Raj wants to continue feeding her, the hospital authority will keep him longer in the hosptial for further treatments. So, Leila walks away from Raj’s life and he is left alone and sobbing. Basically, this play brought a message about love where the writer stressed that love is a sacrifice and desperate feeling of owning someone. Meanwhile, the ring symbolizes the pain that they went through.
In conclusion, both plays was a great platform for me to have a better understanding of what is love and marriage, where the writer presented the different perceptions and thoughts about love and marriage to the audiences.
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