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    Discuss the dramatic techniques in Death of a Salesman. From a technical point of view‚ Miller was welcomed by those involved in the practical craft of theatre. In his plays‚ we find challenge and convention‚ boldness and caution‚ daring technical experiment and poetic dialogues. In Death of a Salesman ‚ his new dramatic techniques- unrealistic setting‚ music‚ lighting‚ etc.-all generated a sense of mutation of old forms and conventions. Death of a Salesman concentrates on Willy Loman‚ an exhausted

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    seen by society as a negative form of difference and so mental illness patients have continuously been stereotyped and marginalised by society throughout there lives. The mistreatment of mental illness patients has been displayed throughout the play Cosi. The mental characters from the play create a theme of madness through there different personalities and quirks. The theme; mental illness and madness are developed for the audience by Louis Nowra’s choice of stage directions‚ dialogue‚ conflicts and

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    In Cosi‚ Nowra uses several recurring language techniques and devices to create various: Symbols and motifs are often ideas‚ items‚ actions‚ sounds or sights which occur in a play which represent an idea which is reinforces the writer’s message. moods tones Atmospheres Or to emphasis: a situation‚ an important point or moment in the plot‚ setting‚ character‚ or idea in the play A stereotype An alternate perspective Symbols Burnt-out theatre The setting of a burnt-out theatre

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    An introduction to Cosi ouis Nowra was inspired to write Cosi after a visit to a performance of Hello Dolly with a group of mental patients in 1970. He worked with this group of patients to produce a version of Trial By Jury which helped many of the patients to “blossom” and also revealed the ignorance of a student leader who ridiculed the patients’ efforts. Nowra claims that the play is a combination of fact and fiction. In Cosi‚ a mature Nowra looks back and evaluates his youthful self and the

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    How does Nowra portray the idea that ‘madness’ is a matter of perspective? Throughout the play ‘Cosi’‚ the audience witness the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Louis Nowra uses black comedy and a play-within-a-play structure to force the audience to see the characters as “normal people who have done extraordinary things” rather than just their mental illnesses. Ecplored though the actions of the government in the Vietnamese war that lead to strong anti-war attitudes and a seemingly

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    outstanding writing skill‚ by the number of techniques he incorporates‚ such as dramatic irony‚ symbolism and his usage of the Chorus. Dramatic irony is a prominent device used in many tragedies. It allows the audience to feel a sense of privilege and engagement in the play and develops an alliance between the dramatist and the spectators‚ so that mere curiosity is not the only aspect keeping the viewers interested. Such tragedies containing dramatic irony include Othello‚ Romeo and Juliet and Time

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    CosiCosi is more than an entertaining comedy. It reveals the sadness of the lives of the characters.’ Discuss. Through the play Cosi the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Louis Nowra has used black comedy within Cosi to allow the audience to abandon their pre-conceptions of ‘mad’ people and to see the characters not for their illness but for their personality. Because of this the audience is able to relate to each character and their situation and realise

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    Louis Nowra’s play ‘Cosi’‚ demonstrates the bias of madness and deals with the subject of love and fidelity through the development of the protagonist‚ Lewis. Set in the era of free love and war the 1970’s‚ the use of dramatic techniques creates chaos and conflict as Lewis’s opinions of love and madness is challenged by his interactions with the patients from an asylum and through the production of a play-within-a-play “Cosi Fan Tutte”. Nowra begins ‘Cosi’ by commenting on the way society treats

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    TEXT RESPONSE JOURNAL- Death of a salesman‚ Cosi & The lot The Lot – Michael Leunig 1. In ‘Hello‚ welcome to our drought’‚ Leunig is trying to make clear that we should not crush our individual reality; more so we should accept and embrace in our differences. Leunig expresses this by linking a new born foal with “a spectacular birthmark” with such “freshness and beauty” to the words “artificial appearances”. Leunig discusses the truth about the regulations we must abide by to be ‘accepted’

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    Of all the tragedies of Shakespeare‚ Othello stands out prominently as the one in which the role of chance and accident is the largest. However‚ the larger occurrence of chance and accident in this play doesn’t mean that the significance of these in Othello is also greater than in other tragedies of Shakespeare. Bradley has excellently pointed out the importance of chances and accidents. The skill of Iago was extraordinary‚ but so was his good fortune. Again and again a chance word from Desdemona

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