THE ARTIST AS SCAPEGOAT

         In the play "The shape of things"The play focuses on four characters whom are; Evelyn, Adam, Phillip, and Jenny. The person who lacks morals the most in this play is Evelyn. She violate ethnic principles, changes him to the point where it goes to the surgery level. Most shocking is when she reveals everything at the end of the story, and confesses all the lies she had told him publicly without shame.

       Evelyn is the most morally lacking of all the play members because she basically used someone as if they were an object throughout the whole story. As if all the changes and "sculptures" were not bad enough, at the end of the story she doesn't even apologize, neither feel any guilt for her actions. she knew all along that he was falling in love with her and was dong all the changes to please her, yet played girlfriend role when inside she knows she was only using him. She knows that hes's extremely likely to do something just because she suggests, and she would go as far as suggestions a nose job, which he gets done.

       In another way Adam could be seen as the most morally lacking for letting someones idea easily control him. All she would do is bring up the idea/ suggest without  directly pushing or forcing him to do so, and he will just do it. Whats even more morally wrong about that is the facts that he is doing things that are not like him and that he doesn't even  enjoy doing.  For example, when Evelyn asks "do you like doing it?" and he answers "honestly...no.i totally hate it!" and then quotes "because you suggested it..(page 19). It's really terrible to go through or do things that you don't like just because someone suggested it. There are suggestions everywhere, you just need to stop and think for your own self what is  actually beneficial to you. The part where i felt like he was really wrong out of all was when he actually agreed to give up his friends, i mean that a really big move right there, i wonder if he would have given up his family too is she asked. i know he's doing that because he loves her and wants to please her, but at this age he should know that people should love you the way you are, and if you are going under the knife for them, then you should really rethink about your relationship.
   
          But at the end of the day the most morally lacking person is Evelyn because she stirred it all, and planned it all along knowing very well that he is falling for her and shes just going to leave him at the end. Adam was also morally lacking but his way meant no harm, it was just out of love to please her that he easily did things that she suggested. But for Evelyn, it was intentional and sadly used him as a piece of artwork for her school projects. Of all things in the worlds, she used a human beings that only wanted to love her.