Is it worth giving up all that you know and have for love? For something or someone you feel passionate about? Stepping off the cliff? Throwing yourself out of the airplane, exposing yourself to having the skin ripped off your bones and your heart yanked from its bed and dashed onto spikes.
Does that sound exciting or horrendous? Something you would do or run from doing? Does that sound a tad melodramatic?
It's what it would feel like if what you are stepping away from is comfortable and familiar and something you thought you could continue with for the rest of your life.
Tessa in Leaving Coty reaches this point. And thinking and talking about it and making lists of pros and cons of shoulds and shouldn'ts of rights and wrongs doesn't make any difference. When gut reaction and taking heed of what your body is physically crying out for, there seems to be no dilemma. In a world of rules, the body being emotionally sick or well is ignored. Increasingly, Tessa's body is telling her what to do. The thing is, in reality, not films or books, how many listen to that call? And in reality, not fiction, what happens to the other characters in the story? In a film, this, in real life, makes us see the consequences of our actions, looking on at devastation, we can see how this is reflected in our world. And does this help? Is this why A level questions ask how a Shakespeare text is relevent today? Is it relevent to make our decisions based on a play or a book or a film? Are our bodies, not our minds satisfied with that? Is one more important than the other to listen to?
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