Issues of Sin and the Possibility of Redemption in The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party
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The aim of this essay is to examine the ways in which The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party dramatize the issues of sin and the possibility of redemption. The Family Union shows this by making us see how the protagonist, Harry, returns to his home guilt-ridden and unhappy, feels happy for the first time after he learns that his life might have been a dream, including his act of pushing his wife off the ship. The Cocktail Party shows different choices toward redemption: the Chamberlaynes, who do not have a sense of sin and an awareness of solitude, choose to accept their destiny; Celia, who, unlike the Chamberlaynes, is aware of the solitude and have a sense of sin renounces the love among the humankind and chooses the love of God. This choice results in her joining the religious order, and eventually leads her to her death. Even though the Chamberlaynes see Celia’s death as a tragic waste, it was the ultimate form of negation, the negative way in which she could be at one with the true love. The comparison of two plays reveals much about Eliot’s personal preoccupations with the society where people no longer cared about the moral judgment, most notably the choice between good and evil that made us who we were. His staging of the plays was a way of presenting such issues to the widest possible audience.
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The aim of this essay is to examine the ways in which The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party dramatize the issues of sin and the possibility of redemption. The Family Union shows this by making us see how the protagonist, Harry, returns to his home guilt-ridden and unhappy, feels happy for the first time after he learns that his life might have been a dream, including his act of pushing his wife off the ship. The Cocktail Party shows different choices toward redemption: the Chamberlaynes, who do not have a sense of sin and an awareness of solitude, choose to accept their destiny; Celia, who, unlike the Chamberlaynes, is aware of the solitude and have a sense of sin renounces the love among the humankind and chooses the love of God. This choice results in her joining the religious order, and eventually leads her to her death. Even though the Chamberlaynes see Celia’s death as a tragic waste, it was the ultimate form of negation, the negative way in which she could be at one with the true love. The comparison of two plays reveals much about Eliot’s personal preoccupations with the society where people no longer cared about the moral judgment, most notably the choice between good and evil that made us who we were. His staging of the plays was a way of presenting such issues to the widest possible audience.
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