Little Shop of Horrors / Cold War?

Question

For extra credit for one of my classes, my teacher wants me to write an essay comparing the Little Shop of Horrors (which my school just put on in a play) and the events of the Cold War. I was thinking about writing something along the lines of the use of power, and when power gets to be too much.


Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks =]

Answer 1

What an original assignment!

I love Little Shop of Horrors (the Rick Moranis / Steve Martin movie version) and have studied the Cold War.

Maybe Seymour represents the American leaders (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, then Nixon), and the plant represents the FEAR of the Soviet Union (the dentist?) during the Cold War. Once you started feeding that fear, it just got stronger, scarier, and more demanding. Eventually, American leadership became a slave to the fear rather than its master!

You could say that Audrey (the girl, not the plant) was one of the countries eaten up by Russia, like Czechoslovakia.

I wonder what that would make the shop owner and the masochistic dental patient?

Fun assignment.