Ian Loves me last night.
Cate I didn’t want to do it.
Ian Thought you liked that.
Cate No
Ian Make enough noise.
Cate It was huting.
"I don't find my plays depressing or lacking in hope,”
"to create something beautiful about despair, or out of a feeling of despair, is . . . the most hopeful, life-affirming thing a person can do.“
"Blasted is a hopeful play because the
Definition of American Dream
1. The American Dream is a national ethos of the United State in which freedom includes a promise of the possibility of prosperity and success.
2. by James Truslow Adams in 1931,
“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
of the English poetry and prose gain the dramatic culmination in the English Renaissance of Shakespeare and the classical culmination in the English neo-classical period of Pope, Dryden, and Johnson. The English lyrics revived in the common culture for the common people of the early nineteenth century. The Second Internationalization of the English Language is made possible by the Victorian Arn
of those pictures is that in Innocence spiritual communion with God is possible; and in Experience the world, ignorant of "Logos" to His home, fails in communication with Him. In Experience, separated from God, God simply is out of reach. However, for the Man, destined to go through Experience as the result of his fall, Experience takes its meaning as an inevitable stepping stone towards oneness
of Adam, and not just the effects of that sin. This too is something that is taken from later Roman Catholic theology, although Rome never defined this as a doctrine.
Christ's death on the Cross is understood by Protestantism to mean that Christ paid the debt owed to God the Father for our sins. Christ, in effect, saved us from the retribution of the Father. This legalistic view ofsalvation is