The Proposal
Anger, scripts, partners and homophones
Discuss anger and relationships and write a short script.
Anger management. The play shows what anger does: Lomov nearly collapses, families are insulted, and the proposal is almost lost. Three ill effects of anger: it hurts relationships, hurts health, and makes us say things we regret. Ways to calm down: pause, breathe, listen, walk away, and talk later. Is anger ever useful?
Write a script. Turn a scene from **Tagore's The Home and the World into five exchanges. Bimala wants her husband to clear foreign goods from his market. He refuses: 'To tyrannise for the country is to tyrannise over the country.' A script has speakers' names, their lines, and stage directions** in brackets.
What matters in a marriage partner? A group discussion, kept general: looks, attitudes and beliefs, sense of humour, kindness, tolerance, ambition, attitude to money, education and work. Compare with what Lomov looked for.
Like a film? Which parts of the play remind you of scenes in romantic comedy films?
Homophones.
- 'They were too close (near) to the door to close (shut) it.'
- 'There is no time like the present (now)… to present (give) the present (gift).'
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