Deciding to not finish a paper before going to bed, knowing you are known for sleeping past your alarm or deciding not to turn back and lock your backdoor before heading out for the night thus getting burgled. Perhaps, lending money to your drug abusing brother, knowing he is probably not going to buy groceries. People commonly make decisions that they now they would not normally make, but circumstance change and consequently so does people’s formally sound decision making. The results of these altered decisions have the potential to harm oneself, others, or something larger than themselves. Robert Schenkkan’s series of one act plays titled The Kentucky Cycle suggest that humanity is suspect of suspending morality in favor of making unwise…show more content… A fellow after me own heart. The New Testament, it’s … it’s a little watery now isn’t it?” (20). Their common bound of spirituality seems to be the only ideology they can agree with, yet it is not a perfect match. Nevertheless, Michael persists and Tod continues to purposely wait to introduce himself until a little later. Only after sharing their encounters with the Indians does Michael fish out a name. The brief moment that the trust gains momentum it is equally tarnished; Michael’s sardonic humor describing the up-and-comings as an indentured servant serves nothing but suspicion and culmination of suspicious actions deny any bond from forming:
MICHAEL. . . . I came by way of Georgia. Brought over indentured, don’t ya know. Only, me and my Master disagreed over the length of me service.
TOD.…show more content… Yet, it can be argued that Michael and JT are acting out of hard circumstances and the primal instinct to survive overload any sense of morality. Nonetheless, The Kentucky Cycle continues to spur thought and the shorts plays themselves teach many lessons: people should not be guided by what they want to hear, be cautionary to what you think is right, people need to realize you cannot escape what you have already said or done—it’s irreversible. All in all, Schenkkan’s series of short one acts responds and comments on how people bend their morality to achieve an objective and the lasting impacts it has on themselves, relationships, and their environment. Michael and JT act against their better judgements of common morality, however people seemingly seem suspect to circumstance outside their control and are willing, for survival, to act
