Ultimately, Cosi fan Tutte is about madness, however the play also demonstrates the significance of love and fidelity throughout. Focused on the idea of mental illness “madness” the play Cosi is performed completely within the walls of a burnt down theatre which is symbolic in to the rough unethical treatment the patients would receive on a daily basis. Mental illness was looked upon as a social abnormality, there for the treatment process in the 1970’s differed to the way in which we deal with mental illness in modern society as people within the 70’s who had addictions were classed as socially abnormal “mad” and therefor institutionalised, evident within Julies case within the asylum. Roy quotes “asylums are the most inefficient places on earth” which further translates Nowra’s idea how the image portrayed upon mental illness within society was an image that believed asylums purely existed to free the “sane” from the “mad”. Although Nowra intentions reflect the idea of love and fidelity, madness was definitely a
The fact the Salem court had the audacity to hang Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, people of a good name, there will be actions and consequences taken. The tragic hero must fall due to some flaw in his own personality. In John Proctor’s case he possessed hubris, excessive pride. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life...How must I live without my name?
Practice Essay: Discuss what you think Louis Nowra wants to convey in this play. In Cosi, a drama play, I think that the playwright Louis Nowra wants to convey the true meaning of love and fidelity but also help the reader to understand the main issues of society’s perception of the mentally ill and attitudes toward the Vietnam War. Set in the early 1970s, Cosi is hilarious, yet poignant, look at life through the eyes of patients in an insane asylum who endeavour to mount a production of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte as part of an occupational therapy program. Nowra wants to convey the concept of love and fidelity in the play Cosi, as the ideas are linked to the real world. Lewis is clearly not sure about Lucy’s ‘modern’ approach to love and thinks love is “the last gasp of bourgeois romanticism” Lucy said.
Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he cannot feed. At another point of the play he names his desires for love “fell and cruel hounds”. In act 1, scene 5 Olivia says “Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” She’s using this metaphor to relate love to a disease saying if you have too much of it, it can make you sick. Love throws the characters and the play out of order, however that order is quickly put back into place when Shakespeare creates a Deus Ex Machina by making the character Sebastian turn up and fix everything. This reflects the times in Elizabethan society when they had divine order and a strict hierarchy.
He was tired. It’s all right. His punishment is over.” This use of short sentences is used to show that there was nothing more to be done, and that the waiting was actually crueler than the execution itself. Kroll continues to make his opinion of capital punishment known by calling the practice “indescribably ugly” and “nakedly barbaric.” He then emphasizes how impersonal the execution staff is when he recalls the guard announcing that “Prisoner B-66883” had “expired” “after the cyanide had been gently lowered into the sulfuric acid,” euphemisms that contrast severely with the earlier description of Harris writhing after the gas was
When Proctor returned continues to testify against his wife’s accusation, he becomes overwhelmed by the girl’s façade, along with Mary’s and Danforth’s accusations against him about him being a liar. Out of anger, Proctor storms from the court in a feeble attempt to maintain his reputation as a truthful man. In doing such, he exclaims, “God is dead…a fire is burning!” (Miller 111) Proctor’s exclamation against the court late in Act III, only emphasizes the injustice Proctor believes is evident in Salem, and that there is a direct parallel among the trials, fire/ Satan, and the nonexistence of God. These very parallels Later, Proctor is imprisoned for his actions and chooses to avoid death by signing a confession which he knows to be false. As both Danforth and the judges oppress over him, Proctor cannot bring himself to sign, and ultimately leads himself to his own death.
If my deep pray’rs cannot appease thee, but thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds, yet execute thy wrath in me alone. O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children! Keeper, I prithee sit by me awhile. My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.” So the murderers arrive and one becomes remorseful and wants to spare Clarence life just as Richard said but the first murderer does his duties that Richard assign. Giving Richard exactly what he wants the open path to the seat of
The ‘curse’ could also insinuate that prostitutes were a curse on society, yet Blake uses the phrase ‘blights with plague’ which suggests that it was the sexually transmitted disease syphilis that was the curse. He emphasises this with an oxymoron ‘marriage-hearse’. The wealthy men sleep with the harlots then go back and sleep with their wives, spreading the killer disease. Syphilis destroys lives and harlots destroy families and family was the most important part of English society. Simon Armitage’s poem ‘A Vision’ is a contemporary piece based on a balsa-wood model of a new updated Huddersfield town, he had seen as a child in the local Town Hall.
However his true intentions were to kill him later on in the text. Dramatic Irony occurs when the reader knows something that a particular character does not. Since the story is in the first person, we knew Montressor’s plan for Fortunato starting with the first line “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge”. This is dramatic irony because as the story progresses, we see examples of how Montressor is pretending to be his friend while we know that he has sworn revenge on Fortunato. From the time he invites him to his cellar, and even when he pretends to care for
One quintessential part of the plot deals with Hamlet’s struggling with his mother’s incestuous betrayal to his father until he finally confronts her, which is embodied in his dramatic monologue in Act 3 Scene IV. The reasoning behind why Hamlet gives this monologue is that he wants his mother, Gertrude, to see what crime and sin she has committed and to make her feel guilt for it. Towards the end of the first half of his monologue, Hamlet provides a harsh reality check to Gertrude, declaring “This was your husband: look you now, what follows. Here is your husband; like a mildew’d ear” (Lines 63-4). This section clearly depicts Hamlet’s intent of trying to erect guilt in Gertrude by contrasting her former and present husbands.