The Husband Matter_Ferenc Molnar
Understanding the text
Answer the following questions.
a.
What favour does Earnest Young Woman ask from The Famous Actress?
Earnest Young Woman asks for giving her husband back from the famous actress.
b.
What, according to The Earnest Young Woman, are the indications that her
husband has fallen in love with Famous Actress?
According to The Earnest Young Woman, the indications that her husband has fallen in love with Famous Actress are: He takes the spectacle off with an actress. He wants to look his
best to her. But he never takes them off when she is around. He
doesn't care how he looks when I'm around. He doesn't love meThe flowers are sent to the actress's dressing room twice a week and charged to him. She found a love letter on his desk this morning
c.
Is Earnest Young Woman convinced by the argument of Famous Actress? How?
Yes, Earnest Young Woman is convinced by the argument of Famous Actress. She pretends really well. She calls Earnest Young Woman foolish as she is unable to know her husband wants her to get jealous and loves him back even more. The actress smartly handles the matter and consoles her that actresses come across such a situation and it is perfectly clear that your husband has been playing a little comedy to make you jealous, to revive your interest in him.
d.
Where is the Earnest Young Woman’s husband hiding himself as they are talking
about him?
The Earnest Young Woman’s husband is hiding in the door of her boudoir.
e.
When do you feel that Famous Actress is really good at acting?
While explaining about her husband's plan to make her jealous to get her attention before her mentioning the lock of the actress's hair, the actress herself says if she has ever found the actress's hair. The Earnest Young Woman says she has found her lock of hair. The actress explains to Young Woman that her hairdresser is bribed by her husband. I feel that famous Actress is really good at acting then.
f.
How do we come to know that Famous Actress and the husband of Earnest
Young Woman are in love?
In the end when the actress asks Alfred to come out as his wife is gone then we come to know that they are in love.
g.
Write down the plot of the play in a paragraph.
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Reference to the context
a.
Sketch the character of Famous Actress.
b.
Shed light on the difference between an ordinary woman and an actress.
c.
According to Famous Actress, men associated with theatre use the theatre
actresses to make their estranged wives jealous so as to woo them back. Do you
agree with her argument? Why? Why not?
d.
How does Famous Actress make a fool of Earnest Young Woman?
e.
The conversation between the two women takes place on the stage of the theatre.
What role does the theatre house as a part of setting play in A Matter for Husband?
f.
What do you think about the ending of the play?
Reference beyond the text
a.
Write a paragraph describing your favourite actor/actress.
b.
John Cassavetes says, “I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the
screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or
low-class concubines . . . . There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or
of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of
her.” How do you assess Famous Actress in the light of Cassavetes’ argument
about the portrayal of women?
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