After reading Jerrica's blog entry on Quartet, I decided to give the analysis of this play another shot. What particularly struck me about Jerrica's insight of the play was its attention to sexuality and innocence. Why are the two so closely correlated? Is this idea founded in religion? Why is sex an ungodly act? To say it is sinful is not sufficient. Does sex provide us with revelations about the power of man and not god? In Quartet, the text was very centered on how innocence ruined sexuality. Being innocent was being one step closer to hell. Muller portrayed a metaphorical hell of ignorance. A place where innocence or indifference is sinful. By reversing the role of sin in innocence and sexuality Muller tryed to convey that people have a distorted idea of what sin actually is. Sex is natural and healthy and refusal of this is detrimental. It certainly is an interesting play on society's conventional ideas of what is right and wrong. I just can't help but still wonder why the sexually active can't be innocent? Any ideas?