Week #18 Life and Death

Last week I did a review (to put it that way) of the production of the one act play; this week I want to go a little bit deeper into the whole story and try to take out as much as I can from the play. The main reason I am doing this is because the form IV students had to do their reviews for last week and I think it was monday or tuesday when I got spammed by them with questions like "what was the concept" or "what was the theme" and even though I did know the concept was "Death is at the center and Life is on top" I really did not have much to say about our theme, was it Death or Life and Death or What happens after death.
I dont want to make this entry emotional and what follows may not be very relevant to the course but I really want to write about what I think about death at least a little bit. I dont know if I am afraid to die or not, I am an atheist so I dont believe there will be much after death, as a matter of fact I dont believe there will be a thing after I die, that does scare me a little bit because if you think about it after you die there is nothing, but how can there be nothing if there is so much here. There is never a moment ever where nothing is going on, right now you could stop reading, close your eyes and try to think about nothing...you cant, nothing is something and there is nothing you can do to make nothing nothing. We think about something every second of our life so how can that be turned into nothing when you die, where do all those thoughts go, what do you do, does everything go black and thats it? do you know when you die or is it just something that you never notice. I would really like to write more about this but this blog is not for me to write about my thoughts its for me to write about what I learn in the course so I will probably write about this somewhere else.
Death is something that I believe is seen differently by everyone because everyone lives a different life, because of this people might have gotten different ideas from our plays theme. In poems there is always what the author wanted to say and what the reader thought the author wanted to say, I believe that no interpretation of anything is ever wrong because if there is one thing I think that no one can be wrong about is an opinion, there may be opinions that are stronger or better or more coherent than others but that does not make lesser opinions wrong. Where I am trying to get is that if we were to thoroughly analise everything to do with death in our play we can get many different opinions and different interpretations of it.
Lets just focus on death in each of the characters for the moment, because one of the ways that you can interpret the characters in the play is that none of the characters was really alive ever. Starting with the boy, this character is dead because it is always connected to his technology and never takes part in what goes around him, he is socially dead. We have the farmer and his wife, he is dead because all he thinks about is his farm, another character that may be considered socially dead. His wife the mother in law appears twice and then dies just like the grandmother that only appears once and dies, but even though these two characters were very energetic they can be considered dead because they were never developed as a part of the play, no one really cared about them when they were there because the only one who cares about the mother in law is the father in law and her daughter and they are never there with her, the same with the grandmother, the only one that would have cared about her was McRobbie but he is dead; these characters are not really "dead" but they alone and when you die you die alone and going back to what I believe about death, they were alone with nothing around them so maybe they were very alive but their surroundings made them in a way "dead" because they were alone. The doctor does not care if they all die because he is already dead inside he also looks dead and does not know what is right and what is wrong, he is morally dead. Then we have the lawyer and the administrator, they both seem to hate their jobs and cant stand anyone but themselves at the end they can be considered the ones that are alive out of all the characters because they leave together but that was something that was done in a rush at the end of the production process. The administrator can also be considered morally dead because she does not care about the dead in the same way as the doctor, and that can be seen when she bangs the corpse with a hammer. Both nurses are dead because of the same reasons as the grandmother and the mother in law, because they can never be together, they are dead because of separation  and they may only be considered alive if they are together which they never are. The Ex-wife is the one that feels the loss of the husband so she is dead when he dies because she really loved him and his death "killed" her, she cant be with him so she is emotionally dead. The priest and the new wife are both dead because of greed, their greed cant make them live a normal life because they just think about money, the new wife just wants to open un her husband and get whatever is inside so she can get the money from the insurance company. The lawyer also wants this and the priest too so the three of them can be considered blinded by greed and in a way also dead.
The character that is really dead is McRobbie and because he is dead he has been freed from everything that makes the others dead, separation, greed, emotions etc. so in a way apart from the fact that he is already dead he can be considered the only one that is really alive.