Today I went to see a play that my cousin was acting in. It was a very dark script but a well executed staging. The acting was really good (yes, I'm biased). The basic theme of the play was about resentment. A mother resented her husband's weakness and saw her son exhibiting these same weaknesses...so she started hating him as well. The son ends up having an accident and becoming brain dead. The mother thinks this is better than him turning into someone as weak as her husband.
I guess its kind of like the "nice guy finishes last" saying. No one really respects a guy that is so nice he lets people walk all over him. There has to be a line. I think it's an interesting subject. Say you have a nice guy that doesn't stick up for himself ever. Of course no one will respect him. They will say he has no self-respect if he's letting people kick him around all the time. But what if this character actually does have self-respect for his kind nature although it holds him down from achieving a certain job level or financial status. What if this man finds self-respect in his strength to NOT fight back. Is this guy still a sucker? I'd say probably. But in this case at least, I'd respect his idealistic, albeit naive, life choices.
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It sounds very disturbing !!!!!
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