Play Analysis Midterm
PIANO LESSON: Briefly describe new stasis.
Berniece and Boy Willie on better terms, Berniece probably will play the piano and connect with her past
OEDIPUS: Identify the climax.
Oedipus fulfilled prophecy by killing Laius and sleeping with mother
HAMLET: Identify catastrophe/identify falling action
Ophelia, Laertes, Hamlet's death (all death's but Claudius)
Four Windows
Origins, Purpose (why was it made), Elements (what's it made of), Content (what's it about)
TRIFLES: Briefly describe the stasis.
Peters and Henderson are investigating the murder of John Wright.
OEDIPUS: Briefly describe stasis.
Plague
OEDIPUS: author
Sophocles
TRIFLES: Identify the climax
The women are not willing to give evidence over--just in nick of time, Mrs. Hale grabs box from Mrs. Peters and hides it
advantage of splitting agent of change and main character:
more perspectives on the central struggle of the piece
protagonist as agent of change
objective function--they are driver of the plot
Aristotle's 6 components
plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, music/song
Complex plot accompanied by _______________ and __________________
reversal, recognition
stychomythia
short, rapid back-and-forth lines in moments of emotional intensity
dramatic action (definition)
specific event that occurs in a limited amount of time in which a significant change occurs
protagonist as main character
subjective function--they are a perspective that we see through the play
_____________, _________________, and ________________ are given by the inciting action
(1) agent of change (2) what's at stake (3) goal
Golden age of Greek drama
5th Century BCE
PIANO LESSON: author
August Wilson
PIANO LESSON: Identify inciting action.
Boy Willie comes to town to sell the piano
foil (definition)
Character that stands in juxtaposition in order to highlight differences
M. BUTTERFLY: author
David Henry Hwang
TRIFLES: List 2 complications or crises
Different things the women find: the quilt, the broken bird cage, the bird with the broken neck
TRIFLES: little MDQ
Do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find anything of use/will they give it over to the men?
MEDEA: author
Euripides
HAMLET: Briefly describe new stasis
Fortinbras is king, Hamlet gets state funeral
M. BUTTERFLY: Identify inciting action
Gallimard decides to tell his "perfect audience" the story in order to potentially find his new ending.
M. BUTTERFLY: Briefly describe new stasis
Gallimard is dead
M. BUTTERFLY: Briefly describe the stasis
Gallimard is in a cell in prison retelling his story.
M. BUTTERFLY: Identify climax
Gallimard kills himself--death with honor is better than life with dishonor
M. BUTTERFLY: falling action/catastrophe
Gallimard's death (there isn't much falling action)
HAMLET: Identify inciting action
Ghost talks to Hamlet revealing that he is Hamlet's father looking for vengeance
Ancient Dramatic Competition in Athens
Great Dionysia
HAMLET: Identify the climax
Hamlet kills Claudius (avenges his father's death twice over, makes him drink poison and stabs him)
HAMLET: Briefly describe stasis.
Hamlet's father is dead, Claudius is now married to Hamlet's mother, Denmark is preparing for battle
M. BUTTERFLY: list 2 complications/crises
Helga (overbearing wife), Rene (additional affair), the spying when Gallimard actually is in love with Song, when he gets fired, final complication is seeing song naked right before the climax
OEDIPUS: Identify catastrophe(s)/falling action
Jocasta's suicide, Oedipus gouges his eyes out, Oedipus' banishment
OEDIPUS: Briefly describe new stasis.
Kreon is king, Oedipus has been banished, and Jocasta is dead
OEDIPUS: Identify inciting action.
Kreon returns from the oracle and says Laius was murdered and Thebes and the murderer needs to be banished in order to get rid of the plague
MEDEA: Identify catastrophe/falling action
Kreon, his daughter, and the children are dead
MEDEA: Describe new stasis
Medea flies off to Hellios, Jason's world is broken
MEDEA: Briefly describe stasis
Medea helped Jason get fleece, Medea and Jason are refugees in Corinth, betrayal by Jason
MEDEA: identify climax
Medea kills her children
TRIFLES: author
Susan Glaspell
PIANO LESSON: Briefly describe the stasis.
Sutter's dead and his land is for sale, Berniece moved up to the north and lives in a house with her uncle Doaker...no husband
TRIFLES: Inciting action
The men leave--Attorney Henderson says "be on the lookout" and the women are left to their own devices
MEDEA: little MDQ
What is Medea going to do?
OEDIPUS: little MDQ
Who killed Laius?
PIANO LESSON: little MDQ
Will Boy Willie sell the piano?
M. BUTTERFLY: little MDQ
Will Gallimard restore his honor/find his new ending?
HAMLET: little MDQ
Will Hamlet avenge his father's death?
HAMLET: author
William Shakespeare
verisimilitude
attitude of being similar to the truth/true to life
lalia
casual dialogue, chatter
raisonneur
character that speaks author's central purpose
stasimon
choral ode at end of each episode
TRIFLES: Briefly describe new stasis.
likely there won't be enough evidence to convict Mrs. Wright
PIANO LESSON: identify catastrophe/falling action
ends abruptly (not really any collateral damage, not much falling action)
MEDEA: 2 complications/crises
exile by Kreon, Jason's visits, the dress and crown gift
PIANO LESSON: identify climax
exorcism scares Boy Willie into not selling the piano/giving up on it
what does root "-agon" mean
fight or struggle
OEDIPUS: List 2 complications and crises
fight with Tiresias, fight with Kreon,
parados
first ode of chorus
merged protagonist and main character?
hero
Aristotle's tragedy (definition)
imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude with pity and fear that leads to catharsis
TRIFLES: Identify catastrophe/falling action
the climax abruptly concludes the play
HAMLET: list 2 complications/crises
the play within a play, Claudius praying
hamartia
tragic flaw or error in judgement
PIANO LESSON: list 2 complications or crises
truck breaking down repeatedly, Grace love affair, Sutter's ghost, Avery--anyone who doesn't agree with Boy Willie
