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How Is Virginia Presented In A Secret Date
The play A secret date explores how George and Virginia have to hide a crucial fact about themselves to be able to date each other. While Virginia believes their love is real, George thinks their love is actually lust, and Virginia want a partner to be with through her tough times. In the play The Clean House, we noticed that Virginia was a very childlike character, and often had to hide things about her life. She would always get into a fight with her sister, raising her voice often as a child would. Virginia also tries to hide some facts about her life when she makes up a fake job to Lane just to conceal the fact that she didn’t have a real job. In Mice of Men we also realized George had to hide many things as well, in how dumb Lennie was, what Lennie had done in …show more content…
We showed Virginia's childlike character in our play by making her order chicken fingers of a kids menu, spilling her food, and almost cursing when she did spill her food like a kid does often. She also hides facts of her life from George as kids hide things from their parents. For George, he has to constantly lie about what had happened to Lennie. He tries to hide all the details about him, and how he had died. On the theme Love vs Lust we noticed that in Lane believes she is completely in love with Charles, and nothing is going wrong, as she constantly tells Virginia and Matilda that their relationship is fine. On the contrary, after Charles meets Ana he realizes his relationship with Lane was actually lust, and he had just wanted a partner. When he met Ana he realized what true love was. For Virginia, we made her act like Lane, when she believes she is in love with George. She thinks they are perfect for each other and really wants to be with him, just like Lane thought her relationship with Charles was perfect, and they were meant to be together. For George however, he realizes their relationship is actually lust after they reveal their secrets just like Charles realized his relationship with

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