The Madras Houes by Granville-Barker (Summary-Characters-Themes-Settings)
The Madras House
Contents
1 ) Author
2) Summary
3) Characters
5) Setting
6) Themes
7) Analyses
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Author
The 'new drama' movement emerged in the British theatre in the 1890s, and flourished in the first decade of the twentieth century. Its principal exponents were the playwrights, Harley Granville Barker, John Galsworthy, St John Hankin and John Masefield.
Harley Granville-Barker, born in 1877, was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. Granville-Barker produced several of his own plays including The Voysey Inheritance (1905), Prunella (1906), Waste (1907), and The Madras House (1910). The Voysey Inheritance, perhaps Granville-Barker's most important play. During World War I, Granville-Barker served in the Red Cross, and after the war, he was elected President of the British Drama League. Although often overlooked during his lifetime, Granville-Barker's plays have come to be recognized as masterpieces of early 20th century drama.
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Summary
It is a play by Harley Granville Barker about the place of women in the English society where women are treated as objects and commodities, the women used to define men. The play is consisted of 4 acts. The first and fourth acts take place in a domestic setting which is the drawing room. Although the second and third acts are set in the Madras House, they are located differently. While the second act takes place in the anteroom, waiting room to philip's office, the third act takes place in the Moorish rotunda designed by Constantine.
What is the Madras house?
It is the title of the play as well as it is a high-class fashion house for making clothes for women. Henry Huxtable and Constantine Madras are the owners of this place.
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Characters
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Henry Huxtable :
- A part owner of this house of fashion. He is the husband of Kathrine and the father of six unmarried daughters.
Katherine Huxtable (Mrs Huxtable) :
- She is the wife of Mr. Huxtable. She is a dominant mother, controlling her six unmarried daughters. Also, she is the sister of Constantine Madras.
The six daughters of Mr and Mrs Huxtable :
- are Laura, Minnie, Clara, Julia, Emma, Jane. The Huxtable girls (if they are still girls as the youngest is twenty six) will stay in their comfortable nest, making often flurries for freedom. They will continue to be told when to keep their hats on, asked where they are going, when they leave the room and mildly reprimanded for taking the long way home from church. Here are such examples of the girls' misery, Jane's rebellion when her suitor was rejected by her parents. Julia who indulges in adolescent fantasies, swooning over Lewis Waller's Collar and crying when her mother removes it. 'Artistic' Julia, who conceals her inadequate water colors with tears of frustration; 'practical' Laura who wins a silent victory in putting the Chinese umbrella rather than ferns in the empty summer fireplace because the former gathers less dust.
Constantine Madras:
is another part owner of the Madras House, the house of fashion and clothes. He is the black sheep brother of Katherine Huxtable. However, he lived in England for years, decided to go to Arabia and live there. Becoming the master of Harem in Arabia, Constantine preferred the customs and traditions concerning women's role there. He traveled there as he wanted to escape the English priggishness. Yet, in the play, he comes back to England in order to sell the Madras House. Also, He is the father of Philip Madras.
Amelia Madras:
married to Constantine and the mother of Philip. She was abandoned by her husband for years. The relationship between Constantine and Amelia is a reference to the lack of communication. As Amelia describes him as "the Don Joan and the fairy prince." Amelia's blunted sensibilities and dull intelligence led to the absence of any mutual respect between both of them, so they separated.
Philip Madras:
is the son of Constantine and Amelia. He runs the Madras House with Mr. Huxtable. He is the protagonist of the play. He is the linkman of the play. He is confronted in each of the four acts by women of different social backgrounds and with different problems. He gives up his interest in the Madras House and intends to stand for the County Council, with an idea of effecting radical reforms in social conditions. He is married to Jessica. Philip is not necessarily always a spokesman for the author. He is for most of the play, until the last scene with Jessica, a detached and benevolent observer who guides the audience gently to the desired point of view. Philip compares the situation at Denmark Hill to the living-in system for the employees at Mr Huxtable's shop, thus linking the plight of the six spinsters with their dominant mother and that of the workers in Act II and the formidable Miss Chancellor.
Jessica Madras:
is the wife of Philip. She is the epitome of all that aesthetic culture can do for a woman. She is the result of not of thirty-three year, but of three or four generations of cumulative refinement. She is even something more than a lady, virtue and her charm: she is proud of her culture and fosters it. Jessica's grey and pink drawing-room, elegant in its furnishings as befits its mistress. Jessica's drawing-room is for her a refuge from the reality of the social deprivation that exits outside. While Philip keeps saying that she will only find solutions for her problems by leaving this shrine to civilization and facing the ugliness and dirt of the slums.Miss Yates:
Yates, a highly respected shop assistant, has become pregnant. She refuses to reveal the name of the child's father, but when Miss Chancellor, the housekeeper, sees her being kissed by Mr. Brigstock, Third man in hosiery, Miss Chancellor jumps to the wrong conclusion and accuses him. Miss Yates is seen as the embodiment of the 'Life Force'. She 'glows in that room like a live coal. She has genius - she has life.' Her determination not to reveal the name of her child's father and to deny him any rights in its upbringing and her courage in facing the prejudiced world alone with the baby are admirable qualities to Philip and, therefore, to the audience. Miss Yates will have to struggle materially and psychologically to preserve her independence.
Mr. Brigstock
employee at the Madras House, the 'Third Man in Hosiery'. He is married, but because of the living-in system is parted from his wife.
Settings
The play opens and closes in a domestic setting. The first act takes place in the drawing room of the Huxtables, a cosy prison for the eight women who inhabit it. Act IV is set in Jessica's grey and pink drawing room, elegant in its furnishings as befits its mistress. Jessica's drawing-room is for her a refuge from the reality of the social deprivation that exists outside, but as Philip makes clear to her, she will only find the solution to her own problems as a woman by leaving this shrine to civilization, good taste and culture,and by coming with him to face the ugliness and dirt of the slums.
''PHILIP: (He surveys the charming room that is his home).Persian carpet on the floor. Last Supper by Ghirlandajo over the mantelpiece. The sofa you're sitting on wasmade in a forgotten France. This is a museum.''
Domestic settings were commonly used in the 'drawing room drama', especially in plays about women, for the obvious reason that it was in the home that most women spent most of their time. Barker endows each of his two rooms with a distinct character, that not only reflects its inhabitants but demonstrates in terms of stage design the obstacles to individual freedom which they must face. Jessica's drawing room is less cluttered than the Huxtables', her maid is less 'becapped and aproned', but despite outward expansiveness Phillimore Gardens gives no more true liberty than Denmark hill.
Acts II and III are set in the Madras Fashion House, the first in an anteroom to Philip's office, the second in the Moorish rotunda designed by Philip's father, Constantine Madras. The audience is, a rare thing in the drama of the period, confronted by women at work. In Act II, there is Miss Chancellor, the housekeeper, in charge of the young ladies who live in the premises and Miss Yates, one of the shop assistants. In Act III, there is the battery of exotic mannequins. The use of the waiting room is obviously convenient as a dramatic location that can bring people together, but it is also neutral ground for the contesting parties. The public room in Act III shows the work-a-day world behind the veneer presented to the public, just as Miss Yates changes from her natural manner to her 'customer manner' when Jessica enters. The Moorish rotunda, an early expression of Constantine's fascination with the East, is a fitting setting for the seraglio of mannequins and their eunuch, Windlesham. It is rich, lavish, decorative and false, 'about as Moorish as Baker Street Station'.
Themes
The theme is stated in the opening seconds of the play by Philip, 'Well, my dear Tommy, what are the two most important things in a man's character? His attitude towards money and his attitude towards women.' The two aspects of the theme, 'attitudes to money' and' attitudes to women' are linked in that we are guided to the conclusion, by being shown a wide range of examples, that the unsatisfactory position of women in society is the result of deeper social evils, class distinctions and physical deprivation, and the only way that women's plight on whatever level can be improved is by a radical reform of society itself.
Analyses
The living-in system to which Philip likened the lives of the Huxtable daughters in Act I is represented as the reason for the unmarried state of Miss Yates and the childless one of Mrs Brigstock. The lot of the respectable middle-class girls condemned to leisure is compared to that of the working-class women, and the living-in system can be seen as a metaphor for the constricting role that society forces on its female members. It is true that Miss Chancellor and Miss Yates are not dependent on a man's whim for their pin money, but the former is quick to point out that financial independence does not mean spiritual liberation, 'Because a woman is independent and earning her living she's not to think she can go on as she pleases.' But Miss Chancellor,despite her puritanical attitude to Miss Yates's pregnancy,does put forward, albeit partly as a justification for her own life, the view that marriage is not the only valid alternative for a woman:
''Is there nothing for a woman to do in the world but to run after men ... or pretend to run away from them? I am fifty-eight ... and I have passed, thank God, a busy and a happy and I hope a useful life . . . and I have never thought any more or less of men than I have of any other human beings . . . or any differently. I look upon spinsterhood as an honorable state, as my Bible teaches me to.''
Source:[Macmillan Modern Dramatists] Jan McDonald (auth.) - The New Drama™ 1900“1914_ Harley Granville Barker, John Galsworthy, St John Hankin, John Masefield (1986, Macmillan Education UK)
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Act one in the Madras house
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نبذة عن the Madras house
(( قصيدة أسأل زمن ))
(( قصيدة أسأل زمن عن الأرهاب ))
أسال زمن غيرنا وأسال زمن غير الزمن عن الانسان
اسال وجاوب يا زمن مين صنع من الزمن انسان
من قلب عايش وانظلم من روح عايشة بالالم
بِعد الزمن عن ظلمه لينا وغدر اللى كان فيه ملك
بعد الامان ما ملانا نبقا احنا اقوى من غدر الزمن
ويبقى فينا الغدر واحنا ربنا خلانا باسلامنا فوق البشر
يارب الكون محتاجك بينادى باسمك ويسبحلك يارب
ارحمنا دى الرحمة اسمك ورحنا ملكك تناجيك بحق نبينا
تنجينا من غدر بعض البشر فينا دا دينا وروحه وبينا اسما
والرحمة مش بعد الروح ما تروح دى الرحمة روح عايشة بالروح
باسم الروح اللى ياما غنينا ليها وعشنا بيها قبل ما تسبح فى الفضا
تبكى على اللى بقا منها وبقا فينا باسم الروح ومين ملك روحه وراح
يبعها لغيرة من غير ثمن الا اللى بجهله لنفسه خسرها وكان دمه الثمن
ذنبه ايه البرئ يخسر حياته وغيره ينكسر ويبكى على اللى فاته ومن غير ثمن
لا للارهاب لا للظلم وموت الاحساس دا اللى قتله جوانا اكتر من اللى بقا
لا للارهاب و شرور البشر اللى تشترى وتبيع فى اللى انظلم
وبفكرة تمحى عقل البرئ و يقتل بجهل البرئ من ظلم غيره واللى انظلم
بأسم الانسان واللى بقا منه بقا لينا من ماضينا بقى تاريخ لينا
وازاى نغير فى اسامينا
( نبذه عن الشاعر )
مصرى الجنسية كان رساماً وفناناً وشاعراً وخطاطاً و داعيه إسلامى ولكنه تعرض للظلم فى احد البلاد العربية وتعرض للأعتقال فى تلك البلد العربية فى عصر أحد الحكام الجائرين و قد قضى على كل ما به من مواهب وعاش الفنان حياه وحيدة بعدما ما مر به من ظلم وتدمير بمعنى الكلمة لهذا الشخص فقد دمر نفسياً وجسدياً وعقلياً ولكن هل يضيع الحق و القصاص فإن لم يكن فى الدنيا فهو فى الاخره عند الملك الذى لا اله غيره .
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اسماء مجموعات الحيوانات فى الأنجليزية Animals group names
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اللهم صل وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبة وسلم
سؤال يطرح نفسة كما نعلم انه تختلف اسماء مجموعات الحيوانات فى الأنجليزية حيث ان لكل نوع من الحيوانات اسم للقطيع او السرب او القاقلة الخ .. التى ينتمى لها لذا نتطرق إلى معرفة بعض من اسماء هذة المجموعات ..
Types of groups
1 - A caravan of camels
2 - A herd of dinosaurs
3 - A herd of antelopes
4 - A clony of ants
5 - A cloud of bats
6 - A flock of birds
7 - A pod ( school ) of dolphins
8 - A clutter of cats
9 - A troop of apes
10 - A flock of dunks
11 - A parade of elephants
12 - A shulk of foxes
وهذه فقط امثلة و يمكنك العثور على المزيد من خلال كتابة فى بحث جوجل
What is a group of ....... called
وتضع مكان النقاط اسم الحيوان الذى تود معرفة اسم المجموعة او القطيع او السرب الذى ينتمى إلية بالتوفيق للجميع ارجوكم بالدعوة لوالدى ..
