Response to Episode 1 Post
Samantha Kleier
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:24 PM
Love this, particular your pointing out the “break” in Tony’s moral structure – I didn’t think of that but you are very right. I also love the idea that tony is followed by all these incompetents. I don’t recall a Shakespeare play like that – though king Lear always comes to mind – I haven’t studied it in a long time, but Lear’s 3 daughters all deem him incompetent and want his fortune and gauge his eyes out to get it…
Janice is most certainly lady Macbeth ( Jonathan you should read Macbeth even if it is just the cliff notes version).
Carmela’s character has I think experienced the most growth and change. We have seen her go from a nilly of a wife (seemingly blind to her husbands career and extra marital dalliances), to a woman who discovers who her husband is and hates him for it, then who rediscovers why she loved him in the first place, accepts who he is and loves him despite of it, and turns out to be quite clever, VERY strong (though more discreetly so than tony or Janice) – in fact, she might turn out to be the strongest of them, and manipulative and plotting in her own way. She has been underestimated.
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