Seeking Happiness Quotes Biography
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Top Girls is a feminist exploring on the principle of presenting fundamental paradoxes facing women seeking ‘Happiness’ in life. Churchill structures her play to look both forwards and backwards in time, ritualizing in a singular experience for women in the necessary and painful and costly sacrifices on the path to the liberation in a male dominated world.
What is happiness? Mahatma Gandhi defines happiness as ‘Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.’ When I think of happiness and Top Girls I think of this quote by Charles Kingsley, “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” Maybe for Marlene (her) happiness was her work.
From her article Lisa Quintela, “As the ladies untangle the scarifies that bind them, the external question remains: Is it possible for the women to have a flourishing career and a fulfilling family life.”
In the play, the second act offers a little more answers to this question. The second act shifted from the restaurant to Marlene’s office where she and her coworkers embrace the idea that women must behave like men to succeed in life while denying any help to their own gender in order to get a leg up in this male dominated world. In this act it also shows us the audience who is to raise to the top and those who are life behind like for example, Marlene’s sister, Joyce.
In the third act, where you see a dream-defeated Joyce argue with her high-powered sister about how to raise the 15 year old Angie, who was the daughter that Marlene dumped upon Joyce years ago.
To answer the question in Lisa Quintela, “Is it possible for the women to have both a flourishing career and a fulfilling family life?” In the play none of the women had both a flourishing career and a fulfilling family life. In the real world, of course, women do have both. When I think of flourishing career and a fulfilling family life I think of actress who are A List stars, for example Rita Wilson (who is married to Tom Hanks and has a strong career), or Angelina Jolie (who has a very strong career and family life). These two women are just a few women in the business who have both.
The article by Richard Patterson asks these questions about Top Girls, “How much is it important that the leaders of tomorrow be women, the play asks, if those in question don’t have women’s best interest at heart? Can women be both happy and successful? And should they have to don’t pants and act like men to get where they want to be?
Churchill explores the sacrifices of a Top Girl at the office and at home. At first you don’t think Marlene is just a woman wanting to succeed in her own life. But it turns out that Marlene has far more in common with her dinner quest at the beginning of the play then you suddenly realize and her rise to the top hasn’t been as pleasant as she would have hoped. Or maybe that is just Churchill coming out this wonderful play.
As the final scene comes, you see a fight between Joyce and Marlene that stops to a rocky halt and suddenly realize that Caryl Churchill what she really thinks about the future of women’s rights. There is no answer to be found here in the play, and Churchill has made that perfectly clear. Maybe that is what makes Churchill so freaking amazing to read because she keeps coming up with new ideas on feminist ideas. Despite the climbs that these top girls have made in the first act, and their own scarifies in town, the futures are never curtain.
The article by Ben Brantley asks, from the play in the first act when Marlene says to the party, “Why are we all so miserable?”
That remains me of a quote by Robert Anthony, “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
In the first act, Marlene is celebrating her promotion to managing director of an employment agency. She sacrificed a child (Angie) to get to this position. But she never says that Angie is her daughter. Only at the end of the play, the audience learns that it is stated then. We (as the audience) we learn just like the women in the first act, Marlene risked being happy. That is why she’s miserable.
Pope Joan, who in the 1st act is stated that she ruled the Vatican in the 9th century until she gave birth to a child, Because back then they never had a women pope be a pope. It has been a man for that role. She risked everything to dress like a men to be a Pope.
Isabella Bird, who in the 1st act is stated that she was a British world traveled. She traveled extensively between the ages of 40 to 70 years old. She loved to travel, and her family. But when her family died, she didn’t want to stay. She wanted out.
Patient Griselda, who in the 1st act stated she was in a victim of some of spousal abuse. Her husband and she had a child that was given up because her husband had power and didn’t want to upset the people of his valley, so he gives the child to her father. The husband does this twice to both children they had. Patient doesn’t know what has happened to her children. She thought they were killed. But at the end of the first act, you find out that once she is freed from her husband, she goes home. She sees her children. She’s happy to see them. But her husband caused her so much pain that she was miserable.
Dull Gret in the 1st act is the laconic peasant warrior. She is the subject of the Brueghel painting, named Dulle Griet, in which a woman in an apron and armor leads a crowd of women charging through hell and fighting the devils. In the 1st act, we don’t hear a lot from Dull.
Lady Nijo, who in the 1st act stated she was a Japanese emperor’s concubine. She was later became a Buddhist nun who travelled on foot through Japan. She has also suffered. She had a child with the Japanese emperor, as watched the same Japanese emperor die from a distance she is unable to see him.
Caryl Churchill is pointing out that everything in this life is scary which the landscape of the roads taken and not taken that every women face, no matter what century she’s in or from. Clearly these women have distinctive lives and accomplishments that are brought to the table. But we (as the audience) will soon learn, that all have suffered and scarified as a result.
In the article by Victoria Bazin she states, “In the second act, we see Marlene in action, interviewing a client and assessing her for the job market. It becomes clear that Marlene thinks there are two kinds of women: those who are career minded, ambitious, childless, and single and those who are marry and have children. She transmits this to Jeanine, a young woman who is bored with her job and wants something else. Marlene goes on to interpret Jeanine’s desire to marry as a sign that she is not serious about pursuing a career. Marlene doesn’t believe in Jeanine is the best person for the job and makes this very clear to her. Marlene is a successful because she does not offer women like Jeanine an opportunity or other prospects. It is important at the Top Girls agency that only women like Marlene herself are willing to make a huge personal scarifies and is given positions of power and authority. I would be scared shirtless of Marlene if I ever had to go in for an interview. Interviews are scary enough already. To add to insult to injury you have a very scary women like Marlene. I feel bad for Jeanine.
Marlene thought her own scarifies are revealed in the third scene where we are introduced to Angie. The daughter that Marlene had abandoned. Angie has been raised by Joyce, but has realized that Joyce is not her biological mother. She has left school early without any qualification and is unemployed. Not being academically gifted or having the best social skills. She plays with a much younger kid named Kit that Angie reveals that her fantasies fuelled by her anger at her mother. This anger is aimed at Joyce at the same time; Angie’s violence could and might be also directed towards Marlene, the mother who abandoned her. This rage is an expression of a desire to kill which links this character to Dull Gret. Since that character did kill. While she is unaware of it of course. While her anger is misdirected at Joyce at the same time, her powerlessness also resembles Gret’s as well.
In the same article by Victoria Bazin, Marlene thinks Angie only terms of her potential ‘to make it.’ Unlike Win, she can’t see that with her only daughter is a ‘nice kid’ and more likely, she can’t see that Angie worships her. In the end of the third scene of the second act, where Marlene, Win, and Nell are discussing Angie while she sleeps in Marlene’s office. Angie’s love for Marlene is blocked by Marlene’s own blindness to her daughter’s humanity. Her assessment of Angie’s prospects reveals more about her own emotional limitations then more about what she has lost than Angie’s ability to survive in the new economy. She is unable to see beyond the values of the competitive, free enterprise culture that she herself has invested time in, Marlene’s judgment of her own daughter is evidence that she too like the historical and fictional sisters in the first act, internalizes, reproduces, and reinforces of the ideology of underpinning the oppression of a women. She condemns Angie to a life of poverty and exploitation, and is unable to give any compassion or even sympathy even to her own daughter.
In the final act of the play, Marlene returns to her childhood home to see both her daughter and her sister. Taking place a year earlier than the previous act, this is the dramatic and emotional climax of the play as Marlene confronts her angry sister and attempts to establish a relationship with the daughter she has abandoned. The confrontation between the sisters is really both emotionally and politically changed as Marlene’s defense of her actions are brought closing bound to her belief in the new Conservatism.
I chose to look at the pursuit of happiness with this play because Marlene is trying to pursuit something in the end or maybe it is Churchill who is trying to pursuit of happiness not only in her own life but also in her plays. Benjamin Franklin says, “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Maybe in the end of this play, Marlene is trying to pursue happiness in her own life even though she has given up her only child and has a job. She wants more. The next quote is by C.P. Snow who said, “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” I truly believe that. You can keep trying but you won’t get the ‘pursuit of happiness’ part. The pursuit of happiness is impossible to get. This quote remains me of a quote from a movie, “Pursuit of Happiness.” Which the character Christopher Gardner is not having a good luck with his life, but his wife left him and their own child. But the character says this in the movie I don’t remember where in the movie but he does says this, “It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?” This is also right because Marlene in this play is trying to find happiness or maybe the pursuit of happiness and not knowing that it’s something we can actually never have.
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