Transit of venus

The admit Transit of Venus was authored by Maureen Hunter. The storyline was ground on the life of an eighteenth century French astronomer named Guillaume le Gentil de la Galaisire. As an astronomer Le Gentil attempted to chart the overlap of the planet Venus crosswise the solarize and the Earth, hence the title, Transit of Venus.Le Gentil was obsess in charting the transit of Venus across the sun to the point that he neglected his fiance, Celeste. His obsession excessivelyk him away from home for eagle-eyed periods of time. On 1 of his absences, Celeste thought that he died on his journey and thus, turned her love to Le Gentils assistant, Demarais.Upon Le Gentils return, after his disappointed journey, he time-tested to win back Celeste but failed. Thus, the play showed Le Gentils unsuccessful attempt in love his love for his occupation as swell up as his love for his fiance.We could see signs of symbolisms dropd finish up-to-end the play. For instance, the opening o f the play was accompanied by a storm which reflects the characters obsession and incessant desire which is very much evident all throughout the play.While we know that the main character of the story, Le Gentil needs love, he was non able to know just how much he needs it until it was too late as he was blinded by the frenzy of office Venus journey across the sun, an obsession quite common among astronomers during the 18th century.It is also evident that Celeste desires Le Gentil and was even willing to watch for him for long periods of time. In the end, Celeste learned to let go of her feelings for Le Gentil as she put in the love which she seeks on Le Gentils assistant, Demarais.While the transit of Venus is oftentimes associated with science, the play itself focused more on how Venus was used to represent love. The use of the planet Venus to symbolize love is not strike as Venus is also the Roman counterpart of the Greeks goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. Throughout the play, we could see how love (Venus) made its way (transit) across the characters of the story.The opera also showed us different faces of love. For instance, while we know that Le Gentils love for his fiance is real we could also see that it was outweighed by his devotion to serve God.The story revealed that Le Gentils obsession was determined by his need to serve God. It was not uncommon during Le Gentils time for scientists to correlate science with religion and there are galore(postnominal) people who believed that by mapping the transit of Venus across the sun they would be able to prove that science could coexist with religion.Le Gentil was greatly goaded by the need to map the transit of Venus to the point that he was not able to see what is really important, his love for his fiance, Celeste.As I realise already mentioned earlier, Le Gentil failed to map the transit of Venus and at the said(prenominal) time he also failed to pursue his love for Celeste. We could see th at this was symbolized by the fact that his attempt to map the transit of Venus failed as clouds blur his vision and disabled him from witnessing Venus transit.The opera also made use of expressionism. Expressionism gives emphasis on the characters divine awakening, pain, and suffering. In watching the play, the audience would be drawn to the sufferings of the characters.Expressionism is evident on Le Gentils desire to meet his spiritual hunger which he believed could only be done by serving God. His journey to serve God, to unite science with religion, led him to a path filled with pain and suffering as he did not succeed in his journey and at the same time lost(p) the love of his fiance.Expressionism is also present on Le Gentils kin with Celeste in that at first, Celeste was willing to sacrifice for Le Gentil. For love, Celeste was willing to wait until Le Gentil was done with his journey. While it pained her that Le Gentils exertion is more important than her, she endured t he pain and silently waited for her fiances return.Women, during Celestes time, were not exactly on the same footing with men. This is evident on how Celestes character showed how she allowed her fiance to subjugate her own desire. However, at the end of the play we saw how their positions were reversed as Celeste rejected Le Gentils love.