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Playwright Universal Questions
The Playwright stated life is concerned with the ongoing struggle between love and fear based on the universal questions being raised. In each scene portrayed during the play the same universal questions were focused on. In the first scene with the journalist couple in the car, the universal question, why do we fear, is put into context when the husband is telling his wife why should we fear the urban legends in the car. However, another universal question, why do we love, is a major fragment of the first scene additionally; it’s put into context when the wife starts questioning why should they travel towards shadow lake where the urban legends took place at for their story. Moreover, while watching the preceding scenes I notice a constant

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