The Rez Sisters | Themes of Character, Womanhood, and Community
Moron is an educator with significant experience in the instruction of drama and literature. His essay on Highway's play explores the themes of character, womanhood, and community that lead the sisters to appreciate one another and their reserve.
Terence, the popular playwright of ancient Rome, once wrote that "Fortune favors the bold." While this may be true in some cases, none of the bold women in Highway's The Rez Sisters seem particularly "favored'' by Fortune or anything else for that matter. Pelajia, for example, opens the play by voicing her desire to leave: "I want to go to Toronto." Veronique complains of her drunken husband. Emily was beaten by her husband for ten years, then left only to experience death in a new relationship. Annie lost her sweetheart to her own sister, Marie-Adele, who is now stricken with...
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