The Little Foxes

The Rungs of The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes ' is a realist play written by Lillian Hellman which later on became a film . It is the story of the Hubbard family who regard money and power above everything else , especially for Regina Giddens She will do everything it takes to keep getting richer to the point that she uses her own daughter Alexandra . Her plan was to swindle her husband who she is estranged from . In the end , it turns out that her ruthless brothers Ben and Oscar Hubbard have plans to swindle

her too

The interaction among the characters in the play and in the film is difficult to decipher . All through out the scene , the audience gets the feeling that these people use one another in to get what they want . This is what makes Hellman 's play absorbing . It is as if each exchange is a business deal . For one , brothers Oscar and Ben and their sister Regina fight over who gets the biggest share of the company they formed altogether . The siblings engage in cutthroat tricks and the verbal cat and mouse is seen in their dialogue . Surprisingly , their lines also have hidden meaning . There is a subtext underneath the surface

Ben 's That 's cynical . Cynicism is only an unpleasant way of saying the truth ' is directed to his brother and his sister . The siblings accuse one another of being cynical when in fact , their intentions are dark in nature . They are aware of what the truth is . It is right in front of them . Each one of them wants to get the biggest share and no one will back down

Oscar 's People ought to help people . But that 's not always the way it happens . And sometimes you got to think of yourself ' is a realistic look of one 's responsibility on society . The Hubbards live in a town where they are considered to be upper-class . Naturally , in a society the upper-class is expected to help the less fortunate in any way possible Unfortunately , this is not what the Hubbards are doing . In this line Oscar pretty much justified what his family was doing to their workers They were not giving the workers the salary they deserve . This line represents the microcosm of the enterprise system during the time the play takes place , and also what contemporary entrepreneurship is like right now . It is a dog-eat-dog and employers think profit before their employees

Then there 's Ben 's There are hundreds of Hubbards sitting in rooms like this throughout the country . All their names aren 't Hubbard , but they are all Hubbards and they will own this country someday . We 'll get along ' In this line , Ben is aware that they are not the only businessmen who work the same way they do . Therefore this only reasons their actions to be good - simply because other landowners were doing the same thing . Ben believes that this approach in managing business is the way...