Friday, June 28, 2013

In the Miracle Worker, do you think Helen's worst handicap is deafness or blindness?

Wow, it's hard to choose, the combination of the two makes everything so difficult.  In Act II, the fight between Annie and the Captain begins because Helen keeps breaking things while he is trying to carry on a conversation.  If she had seen them, she might not have broken them.  Or maybe she would have, because the destructive acts seem to be more borne out of frustration that "oops," you know? 

Hearing might have made life easier for Helen because she could have understood the names of things and thus more easily understood how objects relate to people (and vice-versa) as well as their purposes. 

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