Also, Laertes, like his father, has the same spontaneity as Hamlet. Throughout this tragic play, we see there are many foils, whether they are noticeable or hard to see. Foils add to the plot of the play by introducing the audience or reader to the characters personality, which aids us in understanding each character’s decisions. Literary techniques such as these foils greatly enrich a play and make them into final masterpieces, as
Puppetry in India There is slight evidence for puppetry in the Indus Valley Civilization. Archaeologists have unearthed one terracotta doll with a detachable head capable of manipulation by a string dating to 2500 BC. Another figure is a terracotta monkey which could be manipulated up and down a stick, achieving minimum animation in both cases. The epic Mahabharata, Tamil literature from the Sangam Era, and various literary works dating from the late centuries BC to the early centuries AD, including Ashokan edicts, describe puppets. Works like the Natya Shastra and the Kamasutra elaborate on puppetry in some detail.
Both ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’ by Ray Lawler and ‘The removalists’ by David Williamson have explored the different ways people cope when things change or go wrong. Both playwrights use the style of realism to portray themes which depict changing circumstances on the stage and show how different characters respond. Ray Lawler and David Williamson use the techniques of relevant idiom, staging, costume and symbolism, all conventions of realism, to explore the themes of stereotypes, the changing of traditions and violence. In the early 20th century Australia was searching for its national identity. Plays up until this point in time were traditional melodramatic English plays.
Wintons writing craft captures the raw perceptions of Fat Maz through her own and what she believes to be society's eyes. His style is often impressionistic with short scenes and episodes enacting how characters feel, percieve, and react to different settings, situations and characters. These skillful glimpses and snapshots of moments shows us how the characters inter-relate with the situations and settings to show humanity is dynamic. With themes of selfworth, loyalty and independance it was desire that drove her. Although Fat Maz felt loyalty towards her father and the store, she also developed a strong bond with the mysterious man who came into the store each lunch hour to read.
Four shows were featured in “Show Business- The Road to Broadway”, including Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, or Change. Each production with its own plot and story, which we learn are two very different things. Plot, is the show its self. It refers to the script, and the story that it tells, while the production’s story refers to the road a cast and crew travels while creating and performing a show. Wicked is a musical based off of a novel written by Gregory Maguire, titled “Wicked- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” The Novel corresponded with the ever popular story of the Wizard of Oz, but rather than following Dorothy and Glinda, it followed the life of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west, and her choices.
Margret Mead taught generations of American about the value how to look carefully and openly into the complexities of humankind throught exploring the life of the Pacific people. Like the Bali people, they play dramas to spread out religious ideas, myths, and historic lore. Their theater of human actor is derived from the puppet theater, wayang. And there are two form of it. The actor for wayang topeng (topeng means mask), they wear the mask by gripping a leather tab with their teeth, while they speak the text; and later the mask was held by strap, and the actor can speak and dance at the same time while they perform.
Musui’s Story is a personal memoir of samurai Katsu Kokichi, whose life extended during the Tokugawa period in the early 1800s in Japan. This autobiography reflects upon the nature of the Tokugawa society, but most importantly the role that the samurai class held during this era. With repetitional civil wars threatening the population’s safety, the samurai social class arose from the demand of a warrior class that could successfully abstain the population from obvious dangers. In the Tokugawa period, individuals had strict codes and ethics to obey by in order to be considered samurais. These rigorous warriors had to firmly conform to their masters to directly demonstrated respect to those above them in the social class, and they had to follow the bushido code, which was a unique Japanese code of conduct that was created in the 1600s.
On the other hand, Wicked, which opened on Broadway in 2003, deals with the issues of magical powers and the fine line of good and evil. Although some of
The play portrayed a vivid illustration of each myth’s theme such as greed or love. The style of the play was a mix of classical and contemporary because although the play is speaking about the past, the myths and morals are accepted in the present as well. For each myth, there would be a narrator who explains the background of the characters, the events during the scene, and the
Sophocles’ stories are full of moral and life lessons through a tragic downfall. With clever choice of words, he uses his characters’ personalities and relationships to lay out his lessons and teachings. In one of Sophocles plays Antigone, he dramatizes the pragmatism of Creons’ ego as well as the passions of his unconsciously mind and the causes and effects of his egos’ quest for divine power. In Antigone, Creon obtains power after the death of his two nephews; however he becomes consumed by the notion of being king. He acknowledges his new status as he says “I have succeeded the full power of the throne” (1.1).