The Good Person of Szechwan (10)

Tonight I have finished reading The Good Person of Szechwan. And I have totally fell in love with this play. Alright, so I pick up on scene 9, which starts by Shui Ta being fat because he is Shen Teh and she is pregnant, and apparently now Mrs. Shin knows the secret of Shui Ta. I started getting nervous because I was thinking what would happen if she has the baby while being Shui Ta. But whatever, so Sun comes and starts talking to Shui Ta about problems with the factory and that he is going to need more establishments for workers. Shui Ta kind of ignores this and then gets into a fight with Sun about where Shen Teh is and how she is pregnant and Sun heard crying from the back room when Shui Ta went back there. So Sun runs off and gets the police, while Shui Ta is talking to the barber and the land owner of Shen Teh's shop. Shui ta agrees to get rid of Sun and replace him with the barber so that the barber will give him the establishments. So Sun comes back with the policeman and he chechs the back room where him and Sun find Shen Teh's belongings. Shui Ta is accused of murder.

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This leads into scene 10 where they are all in the courtroom. Shui Ta is constantly being accused of ruining peoples lives and although he has a good explanation for all of it no one is really listening to him. Oh and the three Gods are the judges. So Shui Ta asks everyone to leave the courtroom so that he may make a confession. He confesses that he is Shen Teh and that she couldn't do good without having help from herself, which is her cousin. And that it was literally impossible in the world that everyone lives in. The three Gods act as though she is still a good person and basically end their search there because they have found the good person of Szechwan, and tell her to stay good, Shen Teh is totally confused and let down by this and yells at them to help her be good. They basically say goodbye and leave, and that is the end of the play. This is now my favorite play of all time, although the ending totally depressed me because I want Shen Teh to stay good and to have a happy ending, but I just don't know how she'll achieve that. I wish I could know. But it makes me wonder if there are any truly good people in our world. Well, good play, I really enjoyed it.

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