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| Posted by: mikem 02:44 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: While on the subject...the beans... - peter3053 05:27 am EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Could the Witch have gotten the beans from someone else? She doesn't seem like someone who would be puttering around a home garden. | |
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| re: While on the subject...the beans... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 03:02 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: While on the subject...the beans... - mikem 02:44 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| What gives you that impression? Based on her words, she's very proud of her garden, saying that the Baker's Father raped her when he took her veggies, and makes a special mention that the rampion was her champion, her favorite! This is someone who takes her gardening seriously, | |
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| re: While on the subject...the beans... | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 10:33 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 10:30 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: While on the subject...the beans... - Singapore/Fling 03:02 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| I’ve always thought the witch’s mother was Gaea, the Earth herself. So the Baker’s father’s theft of the vegetables is like a literal assault on the body of the mother. And, at the end of the play, the Witch herself is re-swallowed into her mother’s womb. It does seem to me that the Witch’s infatuation with a modern sense of what is beautiful to the human race (in herself and in her foster-daughter) bespeaks a self-loathing, an inability to accept herself as a dsughter of the Earth, a sort of ur-human. She wants to pass for a regular human and is willing to sacrifice her considerable prowess as a sorceress. One question: is her father Al Gore? |
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| re: While on the subject...the beans... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:28 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: While on the subject...the beans... - lordofspeech 10:30 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| The Witch is unaware that regaining her beauty (and original spinal structure and hands) will make her powerless; the sacrifice is unintentional and it leads her to be “unhappy ever after”. | |
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| And then there's the goose... | |
| Posted by: peter3053 01:41 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: While on the subject...the beans... - Singapore/Fling 10:28 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| Awfully small for a giant, those golden eggs. They'd be like golden peas to a giant. And why in Giantland would the geese be so tiny? Did Giantland have a permanent food shortage, or rather, smallage? Speaking as one who nonetheless loves Into The Woods with a passion. |
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| re: And then there's not the goose... | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 04:51 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 04:48 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: And then there's the goose... - peter3053 01:41 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| There isn't any goose, There is a hen. The hen is referred to several times, including in the middle of "Your Fault." | |
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| re: And then there's not the goose... | |
| Posted by: peter3053 06:06 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And then there's not the goose... - Chromolume 04:48 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| Ah, yes... well, tiny hen then. I guess I got loose with my "goose". |
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| re: And then there's not the goose... | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:17 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And then there's not the goose... - peter3053 06:06 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| There's a gaggle of 'em in Forum... | |
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