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...Laura E. Fein '91 is the coordinator of Chai Week...
...Just like every other group on campus, Hillel is very concerned with outreach," said Laura E. Fein '91, chair of Chai week. "I feel strongly that ethnic identity is extremely important to people...
...interesting to note that The Father marks the last of Strindberg's "antiwoman" plays, and his later works feature more sympathetic female protagonists. But this play makes no attempt to sympathize with, or even understand, Laura's position. Instead, she is portrayed as the incarnation of spite, a malignant crone whose sole goal is the destruction of her husband's authority and sanity...
Unfortunately, Buckley's effective performance serves mainly to turn the audience against her. When Laura, scoffing at her husband's insecurities, proclaims, "I've never been able to look at a man without feeling superior," we are as convinced by the sincerity of her words as we are repelled by their substance...
...Strindberg's hands, the ultimate triumph of the wife over her husband is not an assertion of female independence but rather the bitter victory of a twisted spirit. The Father does not treat Laura's story as an exceptional one. The Captain, like the audience, sees his wife as a representative of all women, and cries, "To hell with hags...