In Neil LaBute’s play The Shape of Things, the question of morality and the nature if art is asked. It challenges us  to look at the ethical responsibility involved in the relationship of art and life. Power and manipulation shape the story of a young artist and her subject. How far would you go in order to create your art? At what point does creation destroy? Does the artist have a moral obligation to the creation? “The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.” So says Goethe.   William Faulkner states “an artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”  In The Shape of Things the work gets done. But to what end? Neil LaBute presents an intense and shocking look into art and the artlessness of people. The Shape of Things provokes us, disturbs us, and may even seduce us. It is all subjective. As is art. And it answers the question of morality by asking one final question: “Let me ask you something, what is not art?  (Author Unknown)