| re: OKLAHOMA! and Jud's Death | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:27 pm EDT 06/25/20 | |
| In reply to: re: OKLAHOMA! and Jud's Death - PlayWiz 01:11 pm EDT 06/25/20 | |
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| ***Ok, technically Curley doesn't kill Jud -- but he does end up dead at the end of the show and chiefly because of the actions of Laurey and Curley. What I meant to say is, because Laurey lies to Curley that she is going with Jud, then agrees to go with Jud, and she subsequently horsewhips, humiliates him and leaves him, he is clearly disturbed. Curley also makes fun of Jud in "Pore Jud Is Daid" (even if some stagings make it seem like Jud doesn't seem to know he is being needled). Because of Laurey's and Curley's actions in perturbing a rather disturbed guy, he ends up dead at the end of the show. Had he not been humiliated by them, and had Laurey not used him to make Curley jealous, Jud might still have been alive -- perhaps to have some other kind of breakdown or manifestation later on if he didn't receive some kind of help. But he is not being helped -- no, he is being teased and used and is killed, in a way, because Curley and Laurey think his feelings are insignificant and can easily be dispensed with.*** I agree with almost everything you wrote above, but for the record: Laurey does not "horsewhip" Jud. Maybe you're thinking of that scene in the buggy in the movie, but she doesn't horsewhip him there either, I think she just throws him off of her and then takes off in the buggy to ride by herself the rest of the way to the party -- which, in itself, is an awful thing to do, but also not in the show version. That said, I'll have to sadly agree that both Laurey and Curly treat Jud very badly in the show as written. One could think of this as a huge flaw in the story, and I sometimes have. But on the other hand, one could argue that it makes the story refreshingly complex in that the central romantic couple are not 100 percent nice, perfect people, they are flawed human beings who sometimes make huge mistakes. |
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