How does Nowra use cosi fan tutte to show that love remains as important as it always has been? * * * The opera Cosi Fan Tutte is about love and fidelity, the issues discussed in the opera are very relevant to the characters in the play Cosi, the opera is used by Nowra to highlight and explore these key issues by both Lewis and the patients. * Lewis’ best friend and girlfriend (Nick & Lucy) are of the very strong view that love is not important, that all that matters is politics, that free love is a normal way of life, through the beginning of the play Lewis follows this belief that “love is not so important nowadays.” * Nowra uses the play, Lewis and the patient’s interpretations, changes and development throughout
The central character, Lewis, blossoms the most dramatically. Initally, _______(quote and explain)__________________ It is in these opening scenes that Nowra ensures the audience focuses on the “silliness” of attempting to perform an opera, in Italian, like Cosi Fan Tutte as Roy approaches “looking at Lewis as if he’s mad” and then pompously sprouts “What planet are you from?” Combined these show Lewis’ attitude at this stage of the play, However, Nowra engineers a change in Lewis’ character as he comes to respect the patients and finds Julie attractive. Lewis and therefore the audience come to see that loyalty and love are paramount. This is best illustrated when Lewis confronts Lucy about her affair with Nick ( quote his question, note the stage directions and explain) These show Lewis’ absolute change as Lucy responses (
I have chosen to Benvolio's speech in act 3 scene 1 1.Benvolio is a nephew to Lord Montague and a cousin of Romeo's. His name means well-wisher or peace maker, which in some way is Benvolio's role in the play. He shows this at the beginning of the play when he attempts to stop the fight between the Capulet and Montague boys. He also helps Romeo's parents to find out why Romeo was so depressed and when he learns that his problem is love, he tells Romeo to look for other girls and forget about anyone who is not interested in him. Benvolio is also partly the reason Romeo met Juliet, because he suggests that Romeo go to the Capulet party and seek a new lover when he tells romeo this.
In Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo disregards his reasoning and makes hurried decisions as he is influenced by his passion, while in Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, though he possesses a great deal of wit, lets his feelings get in the way of his judgment and pursues a young love interest, Jane, when he knows of the social standards that forbid him to fall in love with a peasant. In Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo proves to be influenced solely by emotion and love while he makes irrational choices that ultimately lead to his tragic fate. In the beginning of the play, Romeo quickly marries Juliet within only a few hours of meeting her, without the consent of their parents. Their parents would not allow the marriage anyway, as the two families have had bad blood between each other for many years. Romeo's characterization causes him to disregard the possible consequences of the secretive marriage because he lives in the moment and only cares about his love for Juliet.
Her affair with Nick destroys Lewis’s hopes of marriage with Lucy, and their dismissal of Lewis’s project in directing ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ downplays the positive role he plays, improving the lives of the patients. Nick’s behaviour towards the patients is demeaning and belittling, exposing the hypocrisy of his standards and values. They use the pretext of a belief in ‘free love’ as an excuse for an affair. Their justification for this
Cosi – Oral Presentation Relationships are significant in the lives of each of the characters in the play Louis Nowra’s play “Cosi” explores the themes of Love and Fidelity, Madness and Mental Health, Illusion and reality, the power of music and politics and empowerment: the value of theatre. Lewis who is hired to direct a play chooses to direct Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” but makes a new title “Cosi”. The characters he has to work with are Henry, Zac, Ruth, Roy, Doug, Cherry and Julie these people are mental patients. Lewis‘s friends Lucy and Nick also appear in the play. Lewis is not secure in his romantic relationship or primary friendship, Lewis has three positive relationships with Roy, Julie and Cherry but has one negative relationship
The never-ending brawl between the Montagues and Capulets in due course envelops the lovers into conflict. Describing the initial fight between the two houses, Romeo states, “Heres much to do with hate, but more with love.” (Sc 1, Act 1, 175) Foreshadowing plays a role in providing hints for events to come as well as to present fate and destiny as a major motivation of the actions of characters. This is the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a story demonstrating the uncontrollable feelings of love and hate through foreshadowing and fortune. Love and hate appear as a consistent and major theme presented in Romeo and Juliet. As the play begins, Romeo experiences, what he thinks to be, ‘love’ with Rosaline while Juliet is consented to marry Paris.
REPORTING SOCIAL WORKER | Jacob Glynn | SUBJECT DETAILS | Name: Roy Law Smith Date Of Birth: Occupation:Marital Status: | ASSESSMENT DETAILS | | BACKGROUND | Roy Law smith grew up in orphanages and with foster parents, but has constructed a frictional childhood of joy and high culture, he also swings wildly between moods of excitement and depression. Roy is passionate but he is blind and unrealistic dreams of greatness alienates him from others. | BEHAVIOUR OBSERVATIONS | | RECOMMENDATIONS | | NOTES It’s Roy’s idea to put on the production of Cosi Fan Tutte. The opera is important to him, he says, because it would summon up a “world that was as far removed from this depressing asylum as possible. A world that was like my childhood: tea parties, dances in our ballroom, circus performers coming to perform just for me.” But none of this is actually true.
This shows the context where marriage would be used to enhance a families place in society rather than for love. Being in the first scene, structurally, this suggests to the audience that the play is going to have a running theme of disruption because straight away we are introduced to the fact that there are contrasts in the characters desires. This is enhanced by the fact that Egeus disrupts Theseus and Hippolyta to tell them of his daughter’s disobedience, which provides a visual display to the audience that the upcoming events are not going to run smoothly. The theme of disruption extends to include the supernatural world in act 2: scene 1 which suggests a lack of hope for the human world because those with powers are unable to live in equilibrium. In the argument between Titania and Oberon, Titania says ‘but with thy brawls, thou hast disturbed our sport.’ This shows the disruption in their relationship; the phrase ‘our sport’ showing how close they used to be, behaving in a lively, energetic way which suggests childish behaviour brought about by being in love.
Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire Based on Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan creates an award winning movie that helps readers visualize Stanley’s primal masculinity, the inner torments of the Kowalski women and the clash of the other characters’ problems which create a chaotic mess. Using stage directions in the play, William hints that Blanche is not who she appears to be while the movie subtly sheds light on Blanche’s strange little habits that suggests a bigger issue. The movie also censors many of the main themes in Williams’ play but makes up for it by having its actors flawlessly portray the characters’ emotions, allowing the readers to see the conflict at its full magnitude. Both the movie and the play sympathize with the powerless women by underlining the important theme of women’s dependence on men. Blanche is an insecure, miserable older woman who masks herself as a rich, upper class lady.