من طرف أحلام العمري الجمعة مايو 07, 2010 8:00 pm
welcome every body i will give you the summary of our play in Drama
Act 1
The major male characters appear in the first act, set in a chocolate house in London. Two young men, Mirabell and Fainall, are playing cards, and Mirabell is losing. Fainall takes the opportunity to question Mirabell about his “indifferent mood,” which leads to a confession that Mirabell’s ardent love, Mrs. Millamant, rebuffed him the night before in the company of others. Those others include two “coxcombs” or conceited fools, Witwoud and Petulant, as well as several lady friends: Lady Wishfort (Millamant’s Aunt), Mrs. Marwood, and Mrs. Fainall. Fainall tells Mirabell that he must have come upon the women during one of their “cabal-nights” when they meet expressly to “sit upon the murder’d Reputations of the Week” and from which powwow men are deliberately excluded with the exception of the two fops mentioned above.
The following exchange reveals that half of Millamant’s fortune depends upon her marrying with her Aunt’s blessings. However, Lady Wishfort hates Mirabell for having pretended love to her while hiding his true designs to marry her niece. Mrs. Marwood, who, as the name intimates, is a spoiler, exposes the sham for reasons that appear later in the play. The misfortune of the lovers, the central conflict around which the action will revolve, is thus established early on.
Halfway through the act, a servant to Mirabell appears on the scene to tell him that one Waitwell is married “and bedded.” While it is not yet clear who Waitwell is or why this is important, Mirabell tells Fainall that he is “engag’d in a Matter of some sort of Mirth, which is not yet ripe for discovery.” The conversation then turns to the character of Millamant, whom Mirabell mildly criticizes for suffering fools. But in a revealing passage about the power of love, Mirabell confesses that he likes Millamant “with all her Faults” and even because of them. They are precious to him since he has studied them and knows them by heart. They are “as familiar to me as my own Frailties” he says, and “in a little time longer I shall like ’em as well.”
A messenger appears next with a letter from Sir Wilfull Witwoud for his half-brother Witwoud who is in the next room playing cards. Sir Wilfull has come to London to “Equip himself for Travel” abroad, which Mirabell finds outrageous since the man is over forty. Again the conversation between Mirabell and Fainall reveals information about characters introduced later, in this case the bashful, obstinate, but good-natured Sir Wilfull. He is compared to Witwoud whom Mirabell describes as a meddling fool but completely undiscerning about affronts directed at him. Enter Witwoud on cue who then demonstrates the nature of his wit in an amusing exchange among the three. Cajoled into revealing the nature of his friend Petulant’s faults, Witwoud reveals several, which he then turns to advantages. During the conversation, a coachman enters calling for Petulant and the audience finds that he has paid three ladies of indistinct reputations to call upon him to impress people with his own popularity. He also comes disguised in public places to call upon himself and leave messages for himself for the same reason. When he enters the room, he is affecting to be put out by the intrusion of the ladies and tells the coachman he will not come. Witwoud remarks, however, that the real reason Petulant does not go out is because there is “no more Company here to take notice of him.”
Through Petulant and Witwoud, Mirabell learns that Lady Wishfort is hatching a plot to marry Millamant to Mirabell’s uncle, who has come to London for the purpose of disinheriting Mirabell. If Millamant and the uncle marry and have a child, Mirabell will be disinherited. And he will lose his love. Throughout the exchange, Witwoud admires Petulant, but Petulant proves himself oafish and ill-bred. The men decide to walk in the “Mall” where they are sure to meet the ladies. Mirabell asks the two “gallants” to walk by themselves rather than embarrass him with their ribald remarks to women, whereby Petulant asserts that any lady who blushes deserves the shame since she has revealed in her understanding that either she is not innocent or not discreet enough to turn away. The act ends with an imputation in the form of a rhyming couplet spoken by Mirabell: the behavior that passes as fashionable wit is really thinly disguised impudence and malice.
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