Almost Maine
Almost Maine is a play about all the different forms and stages of love. Some scenes where about falling in love and the many different ways that, that can happen and how unexpected that could be. Others where not so happy, some were about heart break and falling out of love. A few where about both in the beginning the characters were unhappy and heartbroken but by the end they had either found a new love or rekindled the old one.
A good moment in the play was in the first scene. This scene is about a girl whose hart has been broken into 19 pieces and she is currently carrying it around in a paper bag. She travels north to the town of Almost to see the northern lights, while there she meets a handy man. Their encounter displayed
The theme of this play is centered around time; the value of the little time we have been given and how that time should be used to live for what is right and what truly matters.
John Cariani’s play Almost, Maine takes place in a detached region of Maine. Almost, Maine is an exciting play centered around the daily lives of different love hungry adults who seek love in one form or another. Cariani conveys a message about how these young adults are blinded by the sheer nature of love. Almost, Maine does a marvelous job at showing with regards to having distinctive characters that exhibit such circumstance to the audience. Many might assume that this just your average romantic comedy play, however, Almost, Maine actually reflects our everyday lives, proves that how much of a fool we can be sometimes to do anything for love.
In conclusion I think that the stage directions and dramatic irony are significant to the play, and without them there would be no need for a lot of the events that happen in the play.
“Often fear of one evil leads us into a worse”(Despreaux). Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux is saying that fear consumes oneself and often times results in a worse fate. William Golding shares a similar viewpoint in his novel Lord of the Flies. A group of boys devastatingly land on a deserted island. Ralph and his friend Piggy form a group. Slowly, they become increasingly fearful. Then a boy named Jack rebels and forms his own tribe with a few boys such as Roger and Bill. Many things such as their environment, personalities and their own minds contribute to their change. Eventually, many of the boys revert to their inherently evil nature and become savage and only two boys remain civilized. The boys deal with many trials, including each other, and true colors show. In the end they are being rescued, but too much is lost. Their innocence is forever lost along with the lives Simon, a peaceful boy, and an intelligent boy, Piggy. Throughout the novel, Golding uses symbolism and characterization to show that savagery and evil are a direct effect of fear.
Why do you think these lines are important to the story? Please list who said the line and where it is at in the play (page number, act/scene, and line
the end of the play and it seems that every step of love they reach a
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author Scott Momaday uses the theme of a journey to drive this story. He begins his journey after the passing of his grandmother, the journey to reconnect and rediscover his own culture. He shares this moment on page 10, “I remember her most often in prayer. She made long, rambling prayers out of suffering and hope, having seen many things…the last time I saw her she prayed standing by the side of her bed at night, naked to the waist, the light of a kerosene lamp moving upon her dark skin…I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow”. The passing brought a realization upon him to have to keep the culture going. He can barely speak Kiowa, while his grandmother was one of the few members who were completely fluent. I believe this book is a call out to his tribe to take the same journey Momaday took.
My least favorite aspect of this play was the ending. The ending confused me and was anticlimactic. It was not funny and not entertaining at all.
The play, Almost, Maine, is about nine different couples that are dealing with love. In the Prologue, Interlogue, and Epilogue of the play, Pete and Ginette represent how you have to wait sometimes to be close to the one you love. East and Glory represent how when someone breaks your heart, it can be fixed by the right person. Jimmy still loves Sandrine but when Sandrine makes it clear she doesn’t love him fate takes its course and he finds Villian. Marvalyn is the only person who stuck around when Steve told her about his ability to not feel pain. At the end, Steve starts to feel pain. Gayle wants all the love back that she gave to Lendall because she thinks he doesn’t want to get married but he does and holds all his love in the ring he gets
The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
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In my opinion Act 1 Scene 1 is the most important scene of the play
Some of the most important themes of the play are shown in Act 1 Scene
Against the beautiful lyric and exotic account of the changeling's pregnant mother we have the homely jollity of Puck's pranks on the "fat and bean-fed horse" or "wisest aunt". Oberon gives us many set-piece descriptions: of the "bank whereon the wild thyme blows", of the "fair vestal" whom Cupid's bolt failed to hit, and of Titania's "seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool" (Bottom), among others. Here Shakespeare shows us what can be done "in this kind", lest the failure of Pyramus and Thisbe lead us to the conclusion that the theatre can only depict what can literally be brought on stage. In watching a play filled with references to moonlight, darkness, day-break we do well to recall that it was first performed in open-air theatres in daylight!
William Shakespeare has become one of the most famous and influential writers in the English literature, and his work has been reenacted and studied all over the world for several decades. However, we often do not get the chance to admire all of his other plays as the school curriculum in high school only covers his four most famous tragedies plays like Rome and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Now, as a college student, I am able to appreciate his work more as my have recently seen Shakespeare Midwinter Night’s Dream which is based on Shakespeare’s real play Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, a comedy that portrays the events that surround the marriage of a Duke, the love of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors that must put an act for the Duke on his wedding. In this version of Shakespeare Midwinter’s Night’s Dream, all of the original characters and the dialogues were left