Professional Life In Mike Bartlett's Bull

In the play Bull by Mike Bartlett, the protagonist Thomas fails to distinguish his personal life from his professional life, and in the end, Thomas reaches his lowest point of the play both professionally and personally as they adversely affect each other. The overlap of Thomas’s personal and professional life is seen when Tony pressures Thomas to answer questions about his personal life. Thomas responds stating that he wants to keep his personal life private, but Tony continues to pry and Thomas reluctantly reveals his answers. Ultimately, Tony and Isobel use Thomas’s answers against him to make him feel paranoid and doubt himself. In the end, Thomas is fired, which not only hurts his professional life but his personal life too. The overlap of Thomas’s personal life is seen when Isobel discloses that she followed Thomas and his ex into a coffee shop to gather information on him. Using the information Isobel learned, she hurts Thomas even more by reasoning that his personal life will be affected by his professional failure, as his friends and family will probably be
Alfred’s personal and professional life overlap since Alfred decides to give up his professional goal of being an author to devote his life to helping his son. When Eyolf dies, Alfred’s personal and consequently his professional life is destroyed since his mission to provide for Eyolf is gone. In the production of Little Eyolf at the Almeida Theatre, one can Alfred’s desperation and lack of both a personal and professional life when Alfred is sitting by the fiord in a grief-stricken way, lamenting that he will from now on only think about Eyolf. Since Alfred did not distinguish his personal life from his professional life, he feels the weight of his failure and