Word: dilemmas
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...backs of their minds, they suffer. Part of their dilemma seems to be the idea that Harvard students must always be busy or be doing things for themselves. These people view themselves as outcasts, mocked and frightened wherever they go. Everyone knows who they are, and this is the crux of their laundry guilt...
Love and Death on Long Island is a goodshowcase for John Hurt's talents, the prettyperformance of Fiona Loewi and the budding skillsof director, Richard Kwietniowski. It alsopresents an interesting dilemma about how anelderly man reclaims love and youthfulness, but itlacks a sufficient degree of consistent tensionand energy to make this a must...
Ultimately, what is most admirable about the play is that it does not provide obvious answers to the questions it raises. Writing a two-character work provides Margulies the opportunity to flesh out realistically complex personalities, and the dilemma that results from the course of their relationship has no easy solution. The play asks, who has the right to turn a person's life into fiction? Is Lisa's novel about Ruth's life an act of love or a "theft" of stories which she has no right to appropriate? The answers to these questions are further complicated by statements...
...does communicate the preciousness of stories. Lisa has followed the perennial piece of advice to "write what you know," but Ruth thinks that Lisa has taken this too literally by exploiting the story of her past. Although the rift in their relationship can be contemplated as an ethical dilemma, Margulies makes a stronger argument for the inevitability of literary inheritance. In the end, the play is less about moral principles than about the power of the written word--to bring people together, to unearth hidden stories, and, sometimes, to divide...
...first-year, Shah says she found herself in a difficult situation when she was confronted with the dilemma of being pre-med and concentrating in English with honors at the same time...