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Mother’s Day
Why does Mrs Fitzgerald (actually Mrs Pearson) press for changing back to their real personalities?
The real Mrs Pearson (now Mrs Fitzgerald) can’t bear the drama any more dose is too strong and bitter to be swallowed. She feels that her husband and chiIdren are really miserable. After all, they are not Mrs Fitzgerald’s “husband and children . She can’t stand it any more. They must change back and come to their real selves.
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This play, written in the 1950s, is a humorous and satirical depiction of the status of the mother in the family.
(i) What are the issues it raises?
(ii) Do you think it caricatures these issues or do you think that the problems it raises are genuine? How does the play resolve the issues? Do you agree with the resolution?
If you were to write about these issues today what are some of the incidents, examples and problems that you would think of as relevant?
Is Drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
Read the play out in parts. Enact the play on a suitable occasion.
Discuss in groups, plays or films with a strong message of social reform that you have watched.
Contrast the two ladies: Mrs Pearson and Mrs Fitzgerald.
What picture of Mrs Pearson do you form in the opening of the play and why?
How does Mrs Fitzgerald tell Mrs Pearson’s fortune?
Why doesn’t Mrs Pearson become ‘the boss’ of her family as Mrs Fitzgerald advises her to be?
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What is Mrs Fitzgerald’s advice to Mrs Pearson?
What does Mrs Fitzgerald find the cause of Mrs Pearson’s misery?
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