There are many different ways for artistic expression. All with their differences and similarities. All with their appeals and disadvantages. However perhaps the most intriguing art form are plays. A play is a tremendously unique form of art; plays are considered both literature and performance art a double characterization that no other art forums share. Due to this dual characterization, a play can be judged on various aspects depending on what someone is critiquing. When in performance someone may be able to judge a myriad of factors: the acting, the costumes, the stage decoration/props, along with the overall story, and characters dialogue. However, when it comes to reading a play there is less you can judge on. In the written work there …show more content…
The need for significant words/wording rises a rate that feels exponential. Consider a play with only fifty lines, if even five of them are poorly written the rest can appear dreadful simply by association. As opposed to a five hundred line play, which is still relatively short, if five of the lines are amiss so long as the rest are good the play as a whole could be considered a decent play. This sort of linear partnership can be observed in various short plays. Including the play previously stated, The Blizzard, a play that incorporates repetition in several different fashions to instill unease through the audience and demonstrate the antagonists malintentions as well as the protagonists unease. If it were to be put in a novel and/or novella format the author could have better described the scene of the house, or the thought of the characters to quickly drive up eariness. A process that would be in the long run easier, and is potentially less creative than the differentiated repetitious dialogue of the play. Though The Blizzard is not the only play superb at utilizing their dialogue. The Rising of the Moon is another worthy example of strongly utilized dialogue. The Rising of the Moon is particularly interesting in that it hosts a tiny cast of only two “real” characters. The author, Lady Gregory, uses singing among other things to delve into the characters personalities. Even managing to reveal a secret about a character without that character saying it directly, at least not until the end, and without it seeming so obvious that the audience is frustrated with the second characters lack of awareness. Lastly, is The Miracle Chanukah, a story with a relatively high amount of characters considering the length, boasts a multitude of characters all that clearly have
The play that was chosen to be read for the actor’s analysis was, “The Norwegians” which was written by C. Denby Swanson. As there is no specific style for this play, it is known to be categorized as a contemporary comedy as well as a character driven play.
Character voice is used in Craig Silvey’s novel Jasper Jones and James Roy’s series of short stories Town as a way of engaging the audience and making it an inclusive text for the reader. In both texts the author’s use of character voice paints a picture of the nature and feelings of the characters, such as; Lee’s infatuation with Briony in Town, Eliza’s ambitiousness and constant need for freedom in Jasper Jones. The character voice used for all the characters represents the personality, behaviors and traits of the individuals. It also allows the audience to see themselves as a member of the community that Town focuses on and a citizen of Corrigan, becauses of the author’s usage of specific, inclusive and descriptive language.
Dramaturgy refers to how art brings out the dramatic actions and representation by creating a series of engaging elements on the stage. Dramaturgy is more of how actionable the piece of work is to the presenters and audience. It is somehow distinct from playwriting and directing since one piece of art can contain variant concepts of dramaturgy. It gives the narrative about the relationship with cultural signs, gender roles, historical sources and origin if not specific references. The Shakespeare's work titled Winter’s Tale exposes credible illustrations of dramaturgy bringing particular insight into the history to the surface. Technically, the in-depth investigation revealed that the union between King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn creates challenging reflections on the ruling of the Mighty Kingdom. In fact, it brands the novel with the scenic introduction and ending as well.
The language used also gives a feeling of the characters’ lives and personalities. It made me feel as if they were unique because of the way they talked. If the dialect had been printed using proper spelling, then the characters would have had far less personality.
The literary device, author’s voice, is the individual writing style of an author. It is a combination of diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text. There are many examples of how author’s voice affects the meaning of a text in the classic book, Night, a book about the life and thoughts of a young Jewish boy going through the Holocaust, as well as in “A Spring Morning”, a short story about the results of having a kid while Germany is in control of Poland. These examples include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author is writing about someone is being told to obey, and when the author is writing about a loved one dying.
Fate is the strongest seen attribute in the play. In both plays audiences see a character or characters that take the dramatic path of freewill to find or avoid their fate. Through these constituent elements of literature that are brought about by drama and freewill audience everywhere have a chance to witness, read, and understand the dramatic chase that these characters sought out to come to know what the end truly
The Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang is a play that tells the story of two people embroiled in a love affair that is marked by secrets, emotional distance, dishonesty, and ultimately, tragedy. The two characters, a Japanese man and woman who are probably both in their fifties, fall in love but do not even reveal their names to each other. The nine acts of The Sound of a Voice are set entirely in the woman's home.
An example being, “… and he experienced in his consciousness that moment when music breaks glass, and felt a pang of recognition as strange, deep and wonderful as anything in his life” (pg. 571). Reading that sentence a vivid image of glass breaking enters the mind. The sentences are a mix between short and long sentences. They are easy to understand, you can tell that he is trying to express his feeling for this girl. When Francis explains her beauty into details, the sentences get longer, but when he is just calling her beautiful, his sentences are shorter. The passage reveals that Francis likes the young babysitter and that he might not be happy with his marriage. Throughout the story, Francis is trying to figure out his feelings for the babysitter. He kisses her and gets her a bracelet, but never gives it to her. When he finds out she is engaged, Francis is frustrated and annoyed, but in the end when Francis’s wife is trying to leave him, Francis begs his wife to stay. Francis was still in love with his wife
It was very nice to read something that had a lot of drama and suspense. This story has a mix of everything. It has a bit of suspense, drama, and comedy; therefore, it led it to be a very nice play. The people that would most like this play, has to be people who like suspense, drama, and thriller. These people would like it, because this story has a mix of everything, so the people who like to have a mix in their stories, they will love this story. It will suit them, and will give them a pleasure of reading a nice
The Blizzard is no different, if anything the dialog is partially well thought out. The antagonists, Salem and Natasha, are shown to pick their words carefully shortly after they are introduced. Illustrated best their natural repetitions. They are repetitive in multiple ways, the manner that they nearly quote things previously said by the protagonists, repeating a word multiple times in one sentence, and in mimicking one other. This garners various effects, namely eeriness; however it also demonstrates how their words are
In school, you often read research and then at home you watch television. Reading is more associated with educational purposes, and television with entertainment. When I read the play, it felt real. I was reading interviews with real people, about real events. The book, because of its strong grasp of reality, then made the events more powerful because the felt more like reality. When watching the movie, the mind can easily disconnect by thinking it is just a movie. It does not enhance the fact the everything being seen in the movie actually happened. Although it is actors on the screen, they are representing real people, who experience the sadness and trauma of the events. Emotions are also easier to be read than seen. When reading, one’s brain creates the tone. Words are associated with tones, so when reading a very intense sentence, the mind makes the dialogue more dramatic. Thus, making the reading more climatic. When the police play the tape of Aaron McKinney after he was arrested, he gives a detailed description of what he did and why he did it. In the movie, Aaron relays the details with a hint of despair, in my head Aaron gave the same responses but with a more sinister tone. To me this had a greater effect than the movie. It made me more agitated at Aaron, instead of the movie trying to produce more guilt. Emotions are what make watching and reading so enjoyable, and in the play, emotions
takes away from the mood of the story. Another reason speech is so important is
The play defies easy definition and various critics have labeled it variously as absurdist, existentialist, comical, burlesque, metaphorical or grim. The playwright on the other hand maintained that all through the creation of his work he strove to bring in the comic element and any tragedy that seems part of the play, may have crept in inadvertently and whenever it has been staged as a serious play, audience reaction to it has been cold.
...ements demonstrate that the truth of drama lies in the fact that every playwright creates his play in a subconsciously self-reflexive manner while he is one of us as human beings. Thus drama is, in a wider sense, a true reflection of man. A play, the write adds, is multidimensional and many of its events occur simultaneously exactly like life itself. Drama is like life also because the onus is on the audience to find the meaning while in other genres the writer might interfere, technically or otherwise, to impose his point of view.