Cosi Louis Nowra Analysis
Stefan Schmid
A challenge in someone’s life can be something as little as having to defend your point of view to something as major like having to re-evaluate your understanding of something. In Cosi a play by Louis Nowra various characters are faced with challenges and throughout the play some characters rise to the challenges put before them and overcome them, others fail. Using that concept Louis Nowra hopes to communicate the challenges that people must undergo in their life. Louis Nowra uses the play within a play technique so that he can easily explore various themes some examples being love, madness and war. Louis Nowra manages to use the characters in the play “Cosi” to represent the different themes that both “Cosi” and “Cosi fan …show more content…
This at the same time is an example of the obstacles that a person must overcome to be able to rise up to a challenge and overcome it. Exactly that what Louis Nowra is trying to communicate.
Louis Nowra uses Henry to communicate the challenges that are faced to people when having to defend their point of view also he is the representation of war due to the fact that his father fought in the war. Using Henry to communicate that idea is an ideal choice because Henry has to defend his father’s memory when being confronted with the idea of supporting the enemy. His saying
“My fffffather fought in the war for you……You are traitors.”
Is Henry standing up for himself and trying to defend his point of view making it a great example due to the fact that it communicates the challenge of having to defend an individual’s point of view against people who are supporting the exact opposite.
Louis Nowra uses various characters to communicate the challenges of people when having to pretend to be someone else. This is shown in the way of how Louis Nowra uses the play-within a play technique where characters have to pretend to be someone else, at times with great difficulty. For example we have Ruth who constantly needs guiding as she finds it hard to pretend to be someone else. Her
A challenge in someone’s life can be something as little as having to defend your point of view to something as major like having to re-evaluate your understanding of something. In Cosi a play by Louis Nowra various characters are faced with challenges and throughout the play some characters rise to the challenges put before them and overcome them, others fail. Using that concept Louis Nowra hopes to communicate the challenges that people must undergo in their life. Louis Nowra uses the play within a play technique so that he can easily explore various themes some examples being love, madness and war. Louis Nowra manages to use the characters in the play “Cosi” to represent the different themes that both “Cosi” and “Cosi fan …show more content…
This at the same time is an example of the obstacles that a person must overcome to be able to rise up to a challenge and overcome it. Exactly that what Louis Nowra is trying to communicate.
Louis Nowra uses Henry to communicate the challenges that are faced to people when having to defend their point of view also he is the representation of war due to the fact that his father fought in the war. Using Henry to communicate that idea is an ideal choice because Henry has to defend his father’s memory when being confronted with the idea of supporting the enemy. His saying
“My fffffather fought in the war for you……You are traitors.”
Is Henry standing up for himself and trying to defend his point of view making it a great example due to the fact that it communicates the challenge of having to defend an individual’s point of view against people who are supporting the exact opposite.
Louis Nowra uses various characters to communicate the challenges of people when having to pretend to be someone else. This is shown in the way of how Louis Nowra uses the play-within a play technique where characters have to pretend to be someone else, at times with great difficulty. For example we have Ruth who constantly needs guiding as she finds it hard to pretend to be someone else. Her