ANTIGONE PROLOGUE (1-116): Antigone‚ resolute and determined‚ proposes to Ismene that they flout the decree of Creon and bury the body of Ploynices‚ even at the cost of death. Ismene is afraid to join her and tries to disuade Antigone from her purpose‚ urging the weakness of women ant the necessity of obedience to the state. Antigone‚ in a burst of furious anger‚ scorns her advice. PARADOS (117-79): The Chorus of Theban Elders hails the defeat of the Argive army and the lifting of the siege of
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avoid this with the play (minimum three sentences) g) Previous Action - What has occurred prior to the beginning of the play that has brought us to the point where the dramatic action begins? How and when does the playwright give us the background story? Cite the pages and list what information is given. 2) DRAMATIC ACTION Remember‚ plot is character in action. We describe a story by using what the characters do. “An event is anything that happens. When one event causes or permits another
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drama from other literary forms is the very fact that it is acted upon a stage‚ that voice is given to the words and that movement creates meaning. It is‚ therefore‚ puzzling that the most seminal dramatic work in the English language contains‚ arguably‚ precious little of what many might describe as dramatic action. Nevertheless it has moved‚ enthralled and‚ what is more‚ entertained generations of theatre goers across the centuries and is still regarded as one of Shakespeare’s most popular play. It
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The Vocabulary of Drama Subgenres of types Comedy Tragedy Tragicomedy Closet Cycle Miracle Morality Thematic Aspects Deus ex machine Dramatic irony Tragic flaw or hermartia Unities Speeches Monologue Dialogue Soliloquy Asides Chorus Physical/Technical Aspects Props Conventions Stage Directions Other Terms In medias res A term for Horace‚ literally meaning “in the midst of things.” It is applied to the literary technique of opening a story in the middle of the action and
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emphasises the characters and their growth. Cosi explores the distinctive ideas of illusion verses reality and the concept of “madness” in a comedic and innovative way‚ through a variety of dramatic techniques. The device of a play-within-a-play of Cosi Fan Tutte‚ develops an effective dichotomy‚ while highlighting the dramatic verisimilitude of the values presented in the outside and inside worlds. Lewis‚ a young‚ inexperienced radical and director of the production undergoes an extensive transformation during
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better-known contributions to literature was the Freytag pyramid‚ which divided up the dramatic structure into five parts: the exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and denouement. Freytag’s pyramid was intended for analysis of ancient Greek and Shakespearean dramatic structures‚ but that hasn’t stopped other writers from realizing how it can be applied and altered to fit conventional written story structures. And that is how‚ through various modifications and minor alterations of Freytag’s
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The play Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell is a murder mystery. Critic "Gary A. Richardson says that in Trifles‚ Glaspell developed a new structure for her action." (Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Richardson claims that "Trifles is carefully crafted to match Glaspell’s subject matter- the action meanders‚ without a clearly delineated beginning‚ middle‚ or end.." (qtd. in Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Upon closer inspect we can clearly see that Glaspell does indeed have a beginning‚ middle and end‚ and the action
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Titles Relation To Plot What is the purpose of a title in this story? Does is even have a purpose? The answer is yes the title does serve a purpose. More often than not a title will directly relate to the story in some way or another. In most cases a title would be a form of telling the reader what to expect from the story before even reading it. In the case of “"Everything that rises must converge"” by Flannery O’Connor the title does directly relate to the story. In order to understand the relation
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tell a story that correlates with the previous episode. The Feds are Watching was not only a funny episode‚ but it was also impacted with a lot of much drama. The 3- act structure‚ the management‚ and the production of the television show helped this show give viewers a great source of entertainment. The 3-act structure of this episode consists of Richard and Jennifer the two main characters. In the beginning of the show Richard a recently divorced friend of Jennifer’s shows up at her door
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Gustav Freytag is known as a German novelist and playwright. In his time‚ he created the dramatic structure that is used to analyse German and Shakespearean plays. The plays followed a common structured‚ which includes the exposition or introduction of the play‚ the rising action‚ climax and falling action and denouement. Similarly‚ the play‚ Othello‚ also follows this dramatic structure in its five acts. In Act one‚ there is the exposition‚ Act two there is the rising action‚ Act three there is
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