The play is about this college girl who meets a boy and they start a relationship but go through a lot of problems in the relationship. The girl never really speaks of her life unless asked questions but the boy has no problem of telling her everything. It was more than the boy Adam was into the relationship more than Eve. While the relationship is going on, Adam starts to do some major changes that he doesn't think are big but his close friends do. He gets plastic surgery and loses weight and changes his clothes style. All these changes are during the relationship and Adam's friends think that it is Eve changing him. Making him lose the weight and all of it. Of course Adam says that it is not but in the play, it truly looks as if it was her.
I say that Eve had no part in his changes. Adam did all the changes by himself. No one forced him into losing weight or getting plastic surgery. Adam cheated on Eve in the middle of the relationship and it took a while for Eve to find out but it proves that he did his changes/mistakes on his own. No one forces him to do the things that he did because he has his own mind and that is what controls him. Adam was not influenced by Eve because all she did was listen to him and nod her head.
Some may say that Eve did influence it because she didn't stop it. She let him do all those changes and just supported. By having her just sitting there and letting it happen, it would be a thing of her influencing it. Eve was also looked at by Adam of someone who you could look up to. While looking up to her, he thought he needed to be a perfect boyfriend in her eyes. Meaning that it was another way of influencing Adam into changing his ways.
I say that Adam was not influenced by Eve because Adam is responsible for himself. No one is in charge of Adam except for Adam. He is responsible for his own actions. I could understand if Eve was the one pushing him into it but she wasn't. She actually had nothing to do with anything. Just like he cheated on his own, he changed his looks on his own. We are only responsible for ourselves. Just as we are responsible for our own actions. That is my answer and my view. Adam is responsible for himself and for his own actions.
Do you think it was right for Eve to make "the change of Adam" as her thesis?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you .... people shouldn't just do what they are told and if they do then its no longer the other persons fault.
ReplyDelete"No one is in charge of Adam except Adam," suggests you believe in the idea that we have to take responsibility for choices we make ("Ethic of Justice"), even if it is to date someone that doesn't really care about us. But it is troubling that Eve could be so detached from hurting Adam so badly because she wanted to make great art and was uncompromising in trying to make it (not interested in the "Ethic of Caring").
ReplyDeleteAny way, I hope we can agree Labute's play is great art--it is uncomfortable, makes us think, and brings to light something that beneath the surface. I think the strong female character is an added bonus. I suspect if Eve was a guy and Adam was a girl, we'd take less issue with the manipulation that went on.