Lucy says to Lewis “working with these people has changed you”. Has Lewis really changed at the end of the play? Lewis at the start of cosi is very content with himself and has very low self-esteem and confidence in himself. Working throughout the play with the patients there are some subtle changes that he undertakes but not to the extent that Lucy makes it out to be. When the play is at its end and you look back to the start you can clearly see changes that have occurred in Lewis’ personality over the time of him working in the theatre.
However, I was impressed overall with the directing of Smiths. He got the cast to really understand the underpinnings of Miller's great tirade against those who stifle free thought, and drew the key scenes to a good emotional climax. The lighting was adequate; the set design was simple but effective; the staging didn't add much to the play, but it didn't detract either. My main gripe about the production design centers on their programs (absolutely, terribly unprofessional) and the pixilated images used in place of backdrops (projected against a screen) In my opinion that was a great idea, but it was very poorly executed. Ultimately, a play succeeds because of the strength of its story not its stage dressing.
There is no natural human behavior, therefore there is no depiction to the hypocrisy of human behavior in the play. Although there is a decent amount of word play, the verbal jokes are not by any means sophisticated, they are rather simple. There is a great deal of physical humor since the entire play has a washing machine that has a head pop out of it, another trait of low comedy. The play could be characterized as a Romantic Comedy because of Mabel’s part in the story, the Repairman does eventually find true love with her after various amusing joke-filled break ups. But in the end I feel the best category to place this play under is a farce comedy, because of how fast the plot unfolds, how unpredictable and improbable the plot is, and the variety of different humor.
From the beginning of Cosi Nick and Lucy seem to shape Lewis’ views politically as well as his moral beliefs surrounding “free love.” Working with the patients changes Lewis’ outlook on fidelity and pulls him away from his friend’s mentalities. As a result Nick and Lucy attempt to pressure Lewis to go to “moratorium meetings,” to do a “piece of theatre that is meaningful such as Brecht” and to choose between “the funny farm” or their “radicalisation of the nation.”This highlights how Roy is not the only manipulator in the play. When Lucy questions Lewis’ priorities and his choice to do an opera about love, “an emotional indulgence for the privileged few,” Lewis highlights how “love and fidelity are important things.” His rejection of Nick and Lucy’s beliefs, further strengthens how their manipulations of Lewis have been ultimately unsuccessful. Therefore Nowra shows the audience how even though a person may try to manipulate other characters in Cosi depending on the matter they are passionate about, it may not always
Because of his fear of the Nazis and his fear of losing his dad he was able to survive. Without those emotions he would have no chance. Those are a few reasons why I think the quote "All Literature shows us the power of emotion, It is emotion, not reason, that motivates characters in literature." Is true. Even though the good thing maybe there the characters keep going in opposite directions or other directions because they feel that 1 to be the right or don't care what happens to them as long as they go that
Realistic authors wanted to present ordinary characters, which like ordinary people in real life are affected by social parameters. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the reader gets a clear example of this as it seems that the protagonist of the story, Ivan, lives his life and makes all of his decisions only in accordance with what is socially acceptable. The first example of this is during Ivan’s schooling. Ivan finds himself not only accepting, but also indulging in acts he once found “horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself” (1428). However, once “he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong”, he was able to disregard them, also (1428).
Frost indicates how life can be ruined by a simple malfunction or cease of light. Light, in the poem, however, does not symbolize sunlight, or even actual light for that matter, but rather thoughts, knowledge, and understanding. Although Frost’s poem is difficult to interpret and understand, once it is understood, the theme it conveys is obvious. Frost’s theme is that humanity is dependant on thoughts and knowledge, for, as long as we continue to think and grasp ideas, humanity will survive just fine. Frost compares a nearly never-ending play to like, for a play is a dramatic interpretation of real life and life, to humans at least, does seem nearly eternal.
We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings. The journey of life itself is half of the fun. The end of the novel brings Huck full circle almost exactly where he started as to stay consistent with the novel. As Huck made it clear he didn't want to be civilized he says the same about Aunt Sally were he, Jim and Tom are at the end of the novel. Aunt Sally is Tom’s Sawyers family where Tom and Huck rescue
Such singular ideas are what intolerant readers hold near and dear to their hearts, they are the easy convictions that do not change because the reader does not allow them to do so. They are frozen in production, predictable and therefore comforting, but they will never realize the full potential that comes with interacting and discussing, and are therefore
A Society Satirized in a Wonderful Play “Ignorance is like an exotic fruit…” writes Oscar Wilde as he sets the literary table with a rich display of Victorian satire. “The Importance of Being Earnest is obviously a comic critic of late Victorian value (Schmidt 5). Born in Dublin, Ireland, to affluent parents in 1854, Wilde experienced a social advantage when graduating from Oxford after receiving a scholarship (Moss 179) that gave him more than a taste of indulgent upper class life to ridicule. Wilde shows his characters as if they actually knew that they were in play and making them feel and realize all the absurdities they are saying (Foster 19). Both Jack and Algernon are admired by two young ladies who mistakenly believe the men's names to be Ernest, and who adore the men for this very reason.