VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha

[Unknown User]

VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha#0

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:15pm

Do you belive that George and Martha love each other?

Why yes?

Why no?

[StickToPriest]

re: VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha#1

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:16pm

Yes.

Otherwise one of them would have killed the other by now.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

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Updated On: 5/19/05 at 11:16 PM

[MTVMANN]

re: VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha#2

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:22pm

If George didn't love Martha why would get so upset when he knows that Martha and Nick are making love......

[mallardo]

re: VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha#3

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:30pm

You always hurt the one you love.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[Liz_Bennet]

re: VIRGINIA WOLFF -- George and Martha#4

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:38pm

I think they are the ultimate example of a love-hate relationship- a term that's overused but entirely appropriate here. Or, to quote "Rent," "can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em." They both are such passionate and strong people (those don't feel like quite the right words- but I think you can tell what I mean) that they need someone of their own stature to live with.

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[Plum]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#5

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:26am

Yes, I think they do. They don't have a healthy relationship by any means, but by the end Martha has realized that George is the only man who was ever good to her, and George "exorcises" their son as much to help Martha as to hurt her.
Updated On: 5/20/05 at 12:26 AM

[Unknown User]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#6

Posted: 5/20/05 at 6:57am

Interesting perspectives on the relationship between these two complicated characters.

[popcultureboy]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#7

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:33am

They don't just love each other. They have the most self destructively co-dependent relationship that has possibly ever been depicted. At the end of the play, I was convinced that one could not live without the other.

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[mikewood]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#8

Posted: 5/20/05 at 8:46am

George and Martha certainly love each other. The despicable bantering between the two of them is foreplay for their lovemaking. It is diseased and it is wretched and it is warped...but it is a form of love. Just not a love that normal, mentally healthy person would lay claim to.

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[mallardo]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#9

Posted: 5/20/05 at 9:24am

mikewood, I think the George-Martha relationship is a lot more "normal" than you suppose in long married couples.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[mikewood]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#10

Posted: 5/20/05 at 9:29am

mallardo-not to that degree, I don't think, and certainly not so literate!

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[justme2]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#11

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:06pm

I always thought it wasn't love, just desperation. George and Martha know they will never have anyone, or anything else in their life. They are clinging to the one constant in their lives...each other. It's all they know and all they ever expect to have.

"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."

[Unknown User]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#12

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:59pm

Wouuld you deliberately hurt your partner if you love him/her?

[jmnpublications]

re: VIRGINIA WOOLF -- George and Martha#13

Posted: 5/21/05 at 1:02am

I think they NEED each other, but I'm not sure that constitutes LOVE.

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