The Octaroon Play Analysis

For this artistic community response, I will write about my experience with the play “The Octaroon” and how it relates to me as an artist. The main takeaways that I can draw form “The Octaroon” are that you should not be afraid to tackle real world issues or even playing with the form or style that you ae dealing with. The play had started out being playful in its delivery and overall tone, but then had sudden shifts in change. It could become dead serious and just as quickly take such serious matters such as people portraying different races and turn them on their heads by having an African American person wear black face and calling the makeup from a previous native American caricature and calling it sunburn. As a writer, you have the ability to get people riled up or even make them leave your reading due to them not agreeing or even liking a certain part of your work. That’s honestly fine. It is the job of a writer to get people talking, to get them to
The play can honestly be called a piece of meta-fiction as there were points where the audience was directly referenced and played with and the main focus was actually a play within a play, all the while dealing with the past and present. When dealing with a piece of poetry or any work, the writer has complete creative freedom and can honestly do what they want with the form. There are also times where you have a set form and can alter it and make it work with and not against you. As a writer, I prefer freeform as it does still fully enable the creative spirit and the chance to do whatever it is you want to a piece, but it still comes with the weight that you still have to capture the reader’s attention and how exactly you will execute that and make it happen. If you are able to play with expectations and hit the reader by surprise, then your work as a whole will have more impact and add a layer of returnability to