Brianna Engelhorn Blog #4

In the beggining Oleanna, it was very annoying to watch. The dialogue of the professor and student constantly cutting each other off was just very hard to follow and not get distracted. I started to become particularly interested and the characters way of interacting was a little easier to follow towards the middle of the play. It was hard to grasp what Carol's intentions were at first because in my opinion she was a typical hard working student looking to improve a grade she thought should be higher. When Carol claims that the Professor sexually harassed her it started to fall together. I like how J.K Curry described Oleanna as "not being primarily about sexual harassment, but about false or distorted allegations." Carol started to use her need in that class to get a good grade to turning it into targeting the professor into making the public think he was sexually harassing her. J.K Curry stating "The work obscures the issue of sexual harassment by suggesting that sexual harassment is really a ploy of militant feminists to disempower and destroy white, middle-class, male academics." Carol had an advantage and she knew she did because she claimed she came from a lower class than the professor causing it to look like she was less fortunate as well as seeming incredibly vulnerable  By the end I realized that I had sympathized with Carol at first only to at the end kind of have disgust in the way she used her feminism approach to target the professor.