Besides the Leading Man, the other principal actor in the Manager’s production of the fictional Pirandello play “Mixing It Up.” When the Characters arrive, the Manager decides to have the Leading Lady play the Step-Daughter. She is moody toward the Leading Man, to whom she is clearly attracted, and bitter towards the Step-Daughter, who both flirts with the Leading Man and insists that the Leading Lady does not accurately portray her true Character. Considering herself and her companions “serious actors” who can be better Characters than the Characters themselves, the Leading Lady is offended whenever the Father criticizes acting as “madness” or “a kind of game.”
The Leading Lady Quotes in Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Six Characters in Search of an Author quotes below are all either spoken by The Leading Lady or refer to The Leading Lady . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind.”—You stand for reason, your wife is instinct. It’s a mixing up of the parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself. Do you understand?
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Act 3
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The illusion! For Heaven’s sake, don’t say illusion. Please don’t use that word, which is particularly painful for us.
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The Leading Lady Quotes in Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Six Characters in Search of an Author quotes below are all either spoken by The Leading Lady or refer to The Leading Lady . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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“The empty form of reason without the fullness of instinct, which is blind.”—You stand for reason, your wife is instinct. It’s a mixing up of the parts, according to which you who act your own part become the puppet of yourself. Do you understand?
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Act 3
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The illusion! For Heaven’s sake, don’t say illusion. Please don’t use that word, which is particularly painful for us.
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