Criticism of Goldsmith’s, She Stoops to Conquer Essay -- She Stoops Co

Criticism of Goldsmiths, She Stoops to ConquerIn recitation T.G.A. Nelsons critical essay Stooping to Conquer in Goldsmith, Haywood and Wycherley I support to say I that I was pretty scared. Drawing Freud to boththing can really be scary according to almost anyone though, certainly in primeval criticism of She Stoops to Conquer. As Bernard Harris says, we should not discount unconscious forces in any comedy, but then he immediately drops the subject manifestation that Goldsmiths main interest lies elsewhere.(325) The main focus of Nelsons essay seemed to be on the difficulty that certain men seemed to find in achieving a cope servetic sexual relationship with a woman resembling the mother. (319) This essay will opine at what Nelson has to say about this Freudian ideology and bring to devolve my comments on the subject. Nelson begins by looking into some of Freuds essays and applying them to the compositors caseistics describing the Restoration rake. (320) One warning is how there is compulsive repetition in his relationships. Passionate attachments are organize again and again creating a long line of lovers. The preference for marry women is also there, where another man claim the right of possession of her and that the rake prefers her to one who is disengaged. Taking Goldsmiths play, Nelson uses it as the clearest example of Freuds theory. In his play, the character Marlow is very forthright in his dealings with those in a dispirit station, but with women of quality he becomes shy. Evidently, women of low social standing run short to qualify as modest women for him and this fits closely into Freuds description of the sufferer of selective impotence. (322) construe further its found that the reason Marlow is so shy with those of hi... ... such an barbel to a comedy traditionally, if tacitly, regarded as bland, inoffensive, and largely devoid of sexual content.(326) I applaud Nelson for the work and research he put into his essay and Im not s aying that just because a play is a comedy, it cant have primal feelings of repression or other factors involved in its creation. Its just on usual principal then, having read Goldsmiths play and enjoyed it for itself while noting possibilities for his commenting on social/ physical body order or the differences between city and country life, that I set aside Nelsons criticism of the play and leave it as it stands, untouched by Freudian ideology. Works CitedGoldsrnith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. Dover Publications, NY 1991 Nelson, T.G.A. Stooping to Conquer in Goldsmith. Haywood. and Wycherley. Essays in Criticism. Oxford University Press.