Prometheus by Marieta Maglas (i can read book club txt) 📕

a child sees his father coming home being drunk and angry, screaming at his mother and he watches his mother pleasing him and placating his father's behavior, he thinks that violence gets results. Moreover, he develops his own ideas about what makes a man to be a real one,"said Susan.

"You're right. A child, growing up in a violent home, is likely to have little self-esteem,"said Dan, kissing Mary again."I love you."He said.

"Why are all these happening?They should love each other,"said Susan.

"Why? He wants to gain and maintain a total control over his woman. An abuser doesn't play fair ever,"said Dan.

"They use the intimidation to exacerbate the fear, the guilt and the shame inside their women. They want to wear them down and keep them under their thumb,"said Tom.

"Try to imagine your father being an alcoholic, beating you without any reason. After that, imagine him making an excuse for his behavior. He can say that he was drunk or he cannot remember anything. Try to imagine this," said Susan. Tom kissed Susan.

"Why are humans so twisted? The humanity has been unchanged throughout the history. The atrocities have always been specific to the human race. The religions preach about being peaceful are annihilated by the opposite. What can make the human act to be so contradictory? I really don't know,"said Dan.

"It's a big question, isn't it? Tom laughed.

When Dan stopped his car in front of Mary's house, he kissed her passionately and told her,

"See you tomorrow, my little squirrel."

She kissed him saying,

"I already miss you."

"Bye."

Mary entered the house. She wanted to enter the kitchen to drink some water.

"Where have you been? " Michael asked her.

"I think that my mom has already told you. In fact, why do you care about what I do? " Mary replied with another question.

"Because clubs close at midnight and it's three a. m." Michael told her.

"I was in a very pleasant place,"said Mary, having a conspicuous and somewhat sarcastic smile.

He sat on the couch in the living room, in total darkness. His eyes glistened and he had a very strange expression.

"Where is my mom?' Mary asked him.

"She 's upstairs. She's sleeping,"said Michael.

He came towards her and touched her back slightly. He began to play with her hair.

"Are you my very good little girl? " Michael asked her.

Mary laughed loudly.

"Do you still think I am a little girl?'

"Aren't you?''He continued to play with her hair.

She became suddenly very confused. She turned to him and said,

"I must go to sleep. I'm very tired."

He took two glasses of whiskey from the table.

"Drink it! You will sleep better."

"I drank at the club. Thank you."

Mary entered the bedroom and locked the door.

"You look beautiful this night. . Next time, when you will come home at this hour, you will find the door closed."He said, being beyond her door.

"Okay. I will talk with my mom," said Mary.

''She's like her mother,"said Michael for himself, going to bed.

 

Chapter 15

 

Prometheus

 

Ella, Nora, Lisa, Victor and Samantha entered the hall of the theater.

Then they entered the auditorium to sit down near the stage. The play "Prometheus" was a modern drama and it was thought to delight the audience.

This theater play was Alexander's first real acquaintance with the myth of Prometheus. Playing this magical spirit of Prometheus, a new world of feelings and thoughts opened up to him. He realized that he could express better the essence of his great truth about life. Generally, the actors had to wear their invisible spiritual masks for representing their characters,but this time, Alexander didn't need any mask because the book was written in a manner to play his role naturally, with no help of anything but the costume. The myth of Prometheus kindled a fire in his heart. It was like a dawning light, growing for becoming a very clear flame. That flame could illuminate the great secret of human life. The play could bring a new vision about the mythological characters. Alexander played the character of P, the hero was like Prometheus and became the powerful center of the play. Michael played the character of Z, the leader who was like Zeus. The traits of those two characters were very much contrasting with each other. They were completely different in their meaning. Moreover, P and Z fought for their ideals in their society. This type of society was very well suggested by using a theater background, where the characters were placed in. P had a mythological past. More exactly, he came from an unreal environment to a real one. P was extrapolated from the mythology and brought to the reality to prove a non-conceptual point of view and to explain why a human self-awareness must be in the inner self as a spatial being.

The mythological past became the political present of the society. The play was written for expressing a non exclusionary vision, by which people tried to define their dreams of freedom, using some significant symbols. In this society, there was one political party, acquiring and exercising its unique political power of executing the decisions of their single leader,called Z, who was self adoring and who had achieved the absolute power. Moreover, Z was the representative of the ideal absolute power and his symbolic thunderbolt was the law, used to create his own social order. Z wanted the victory over K, the leader of another state.K was like Kronos. The state of Z was a vassal state of the state of K. So, Z wanted the victory over K in the same manner as Zeus wanted the victory over his father, Kronos. Z wanted to be like a master of the gods, the absolute ruler of the living matter. So, Z started the war against K.The eagle became his divine symbol.

Jeff played K, the character of Kronos,John played H, the character of Hermes and Marie played O,the character of Io.

It had been foretold that one day Kronos would be replaced by one of his sons. So he ate them all.His wife, Rhea, hid Zeus and gave Kronos a rock to eat. Reaching his manhood, Zeus fought against his father defeating him, thus fulfilling the prophecy. But that power was threatened by an unexpected foe, the human concept of freedom. Prometheus was a visionary and he understood that people didn't want thefire itself because Zeus sent already the lightning and the trees took fire.

So, men already had the fire. But the people didn't know the secret of the fire ignition. Prometheus brought them that secret.

In the play, the secret of the fire became the secret of the freedom, needed for a new better life. P was a simple man,an intellectual, but he became the representative for people 's fight against the political power. P thought that the absolute leader's implacable power can be overcome. P wrested the mystical secret of the power, that kept the people in terror. P taught the people to defend themselves.The society began to run by total anarchy.The people were outraged and began to fight. H was the messenger of Z, telling P the truth about the power of Z and helping him to understand the fierce defiance of Z, who became an insane god. As a woman, O was very faithful to P, suffering with him because of the anger of Z. Therefore, P became a rebel and a savior, while Z became a despot and a promulgator of a wrong justice. H tried in a way to solve the contradictions, knowing that there was always a third possibility. H tried to establish a communication between the visible and the invisible dimensions.

The play ended with the personal battle between P and Z.

"I feel like Zeus,"said Z.

"I feel like Prometheus, "said P.

"Try to remember when Zeus discovered that Prometheus was a traitor and he chained him to a mountain to punish him. I will punish you. This is the last meeting with the eagle,"said Z.

Z pulled out a gun and hit to kill P and P died.

Ella saw that Jeff changed the ending of the novel in his scenario and she realized that he wanted to change completely Alexander's mind.She went quickly out of the theater and began to cry. When she first felt the pain, she realized that her baby will be born sooner than she expected.

She felt the pain in her body and she needed to feel someone holding her. Alexander was on the stage and no one was around her. She felt like an abandoned baby. Nora came to her.

"What happened?'' Nora asked Ella.

"I have my labor pains, "said Ella, being suddenly very scared.

"Are you sure?''

"Yes."

"Go to empty your bladder. You will ease the pain. I will call the ambulance."

When Ella get out from the theater again, Alexander was there and he was very agitated. The ambulance took them to the hospital. The room she entered was a special place. It was a room set for the arrival of babies. It was seldom occupied, but, when it was occupied, the lives of those within it often changed quickly.

Ella began to feel deeply her labor pains. At the beginning, Ella felt the pain in her abdomen and back, during the contractions. She tried different ways to deal with her pain during the labor, such as walking, changing positions and breathing deeply. Alexander encouraged her. Suddenly, she felt that the contractions were very stronger, appearing very frequently and she sat because she felt her cervix opened. She pushed her baby out. The pain moved down to the pelvic area and she felt her perineum stretched. In that moment, she felt that the baby's head was delivered.

"He's coming!" Alexander exclaimed, understanding that he will be very soon a happy father.

Ella saw her first baby. He was a boy. When her child was born, her anguish became a joy because she had brought a baby into the world. Not only the child was born, but the mother was born, too. The woman became the mother.

"What a wonderful boy!" Nora exclaimed, looking to him. "He has blond hair and blue eyes like his father," continued Nora, taking him so tenderly in her arms and releasing him to his mother.

"Give me my child," said Ella. "Emmanuel, you're a little beauty."

Nora left the room to call the nurse, who took the child to bring him to the newborns.

"How is she?" Michael asked Nora.

"She's fine.And the baby is healthy and very beautiful."

"See you at home," said Michael before leaving.

Mike, Amy and Theodore came to visit Victor and Marie.

"Congratulations, Marie, on the success of your play," said Amy.

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"Has anyone had any success in this play? I don't think so. Don't you see what the media says? Look!" Marie opened the newspaper.

"You can't ignore the media people, when they don't want you," said Mike.

"Try to deal with the media," said Theodore.

"Sometimes you say things that you don't want to say," said Victor, laughing.

"It must be the influence of Ella.She is upset because Jeff changed the play," said Amy.

"Ella has nothing to do with that muckraking journalism, dear," said Victor. "By the way, Ella is in the hospital. She has a little boy."

"I'm happy for her," said Amy, enjoying the news.

"Let's see what is written in the newspaper.Give it to me!" Theodore took the newspaper for reading it.

"Can I read out loudly the news for a better understanding?" Theodore started to discuss the problem.

"Please, do this," said Marie.

"We were watching a play, which was constructed as a set of ambiguous ideas." Another opinion is that "the play lies in its non-dramatic aspects." Imagine that "a group of actors planned to stage a play about the heroism of the