To Sugar Coat Sincerity Or Not To Sugar Coat Sincerity That Is The Question
... However, there were a few certain choices by both the actors and the director that I did not agree with and would have approached differently. ... They differ not in their view of society but rather in how one should react to its hypocrisy, one of mankind’s worst imperfections according to Alceste. ... Philinte also points out that humans are not flawless Pilotti 2 beings by nature, and that it is nobody’s job, certainly not Alceste’s, to criticize other people’s behavior. ... 40-49) I do not dispute the fact that, as are much of Moliere’s works, The Misanthrope is a satiric farce. ... To be honest, as Alceste would want me to be, I did not like the first scene. ... Alceste is not merely upset, he is enraged, and that point was not clearly demonstrated in Penny Metropulos’s version of the play. How this scene was blocked was also not to my liking, and I attribute this to both the director and the actors . To put it bluntly, I could see the actors acting, not reacting. ... ” I saw no reason to justify their movements, and this is what I mean when stating that the actors were acting, not reacting.