Oleanna is a play written by David Mamet, explores miscommunication
and misunderstanding between a student/teacher relationships.
During the beginning of the video I see a girl that needs help
and has a very time understanding the concept of the lecture that the professor
gives. She pleads for the professor to help her and explains her situation,
once he sees her distraught she puts his hands on her shoulder in order to try
to calm her and then he offers to tutor her himself and will give her an A if
she comes and meets him because he will take her step to step on the lessons. Even
though he does touch her through the play but I think they are gesture and if you
don’t like it then why did she not warn him at first and it seemed she did not
respect the professor and he makes her seem unworthy of his time. In Act 2 you
can see a difference in both characters; he become more messy and disorganized
with his thoughts and actions while carol is dressed better and her vocabulary
has improve, and she uses it to criticize him. Just like in Curry essay he describe
the claims that carol did are very exaggerated and misinterpreted because she
did want to prevent the professor from gaining more power or simply trying to
bring power of “women in higher education, and to their demand for fair
treatment” (Curry). Even though in the end she admits of letting the charges go if he is to ban his book and go by her “groups “ rules, this proves that she was preventing him from gaining even more power. The he does hit her its because he has let anger take over but I ask myself if the professor was upper class and you can see that because of the language he uses would he not know how to behave around a student I also think that he made a huge mistake of touching her and now she does have proof of being sexually harassed.
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