I really like some of the characters in this show, like Thornton, a strict and irritable but sincere and warm factory owner;
His mother is a strong and self-improving woman, but she is also very arrogant. She is proud of her son and proud of Milton. One sentence that pokes at me is: If you had a son like mine, Mrs Hale, you would not be embarrassed to sing his praises. It's so cute, is there any~
Fanny, the factory owner's silly white sweet sister: a simple-minded little cutie who babbles all day long;
The heroine: dignified, generous and kind;
The heroine's mother: An elegant, kind and gentle sick beauty with a perfect temperament? It's the type I love, yes *^O^*
Dixon: The fat servant who complains and complains but is absolutely loyal;
My only tear in the whole play was with the worker Bulcher who committed suicide. When he was ignored by everyone, I suddenly felt empathy. Although the movement failed because of his mistakes, I still feel for him. Sad, he has 6 kids and a sick wife, he can't make it, he desperately wants Thornton to give in quickly, so he throws the stone that brought the tragedy... destroying the labor movement The intense guilt, the loneliness and depression that no one paid attention to, the sadness and despair of not being able to find a job and being unable to support the family led him to commit suicide by jumping into a river. This man is so cowardly. He has lost his mind. What will happen to his wife and children? I look down on him, but I can't help but understand his cowardice, a person who has been abandoned by society and tightly bound by guilt, a person who can't find the value of his existence, a person who can't find a job and consumes the only remaining family members There is not much food, because his existence is critical to his family being pointed at or ignored by others, and he feels that he has become a burden to the family. What can he do? I imagined if he could leave Milton and go somewhere else, but the idea failed, the journey was exhausting, where would the family's food come from? Is it ok for a sick wife to move? Even if he succeeds in other places, with such a big stain that undermines the labor movement, will he find a job elsewhere?
In this drama, I saw the tragic state of the labor movement (many people don't want to strike, but they have to follow the organization and sacrifice themselves, which is very moving) and the warm side of a few capitalists (personally, I hate second-tier behavior very much) ), the conflict between the working class and the bourgeoisie was finally avoided in the play. The workers and the warm-hearted factory owners put down their weapons and stood together, leaving a small safe haven for the workers and factory owners in the storm, even though I knew that in the In reality, the contradiction between the two is irreconcilable, and this very idealized result also makes me delusional: it would be great if Bulcher was still there.
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