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    Cosi-Louis Nowra

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    Lewis is a young adult who has just graduated from university. In order to earn some extra money he gets a job directing a play at a mental asylum. He starts off shy and lacking confidence meeting all the patients at the mental asylum‚ especially Roy who is seen as controlling and passive. At first the relationship between Lewis and the patients is rocky‚ until the event of the toilet fire‚ where we see the shift within the relationship Lewis shares with the patients. After the fire Justin comes

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    mental asylum to correspond to the non-specific realities of the real world; he uses the surroundings of the mental asylum to demonstrate just how hypocritical society can be‚ and by creating McMurphy to break these rules‚ the readers can sympathize with the characters trapped in the novel‚ thus further understanding Kesey’s perspective of humanity’s pressure to kowtow. Kesey utilizes the ward to represent elements in the real world. The fact that the story takes place in a mental asylum is in itself

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    Angela Moping‚ who visits her mentally ill father in an asylum. Visiting her father‚ who has been in an “asylum” for many years for the attempt to commit a suicide ‚ Angela meets Mr Loveday‚ her father’s caretaker. Mr Loveday‚ who produces the impression of an absolutely sane person‚ is also an “inmate” (patient) of the asylum [ə’saɪləm] because of committing a murder. Angela thinks that the thirty-five years Mr Loveday has spent in the “asylum” cured him‚ so she arranges his release. Once released

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    Cosi Essay

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    COSI At the beginning of Louis Nowra’s play‚ Cosi‚ protagonist Lewis Riley holds views that are consistent with society in 1970. He has little control over the patients in the asylum‚ his confidence is low and he is easily influenced. Through Lewis’s interactions with the mental patients‚ his beliefs‚ understandings and values are altered. This transformation can be described as admirable as Lewis now holds views that are distinctly different from the society that surrounds him. In control of

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    from Roy reveals Roy’s sadness as audience has an epiphany that Roy’s tales of music and performance‚ along with his desire to performer ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’‚ are his way of trying to escape the sadness of his life spent unloved within orphanages and the asylum. We witness similar sadness in the life of one of the other patients‚ Ruth. The audience first sees Ruth as being obsessive compulsive with a need for control over her life. Ruth’s behaviour is very methodical and she finds

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    Ethics Final Project

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    ETHICS FINAL PROJECT 1. Proposed Action Plan: Describe the action plan you proposed at the beginning of the semester. At the beginning of the semester we first had the idea of taking a computer to the asylum to help those people in there to have more technology; we also wanted to take brooms and mops to help them to have cleaned the house. The entire classroom talked about this and each team decided to do something for those needed people. 2. Done activities: Explain very carefully

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    3. Cosi is more than an entertaining comedy. It reveals the sadness of the lives of the characters. 4. What does Lewis gain by directing the play? 5. “You’re sort of testing yourself in coming here.” In what ways do his experiences in the asylum test Lewis? 6. “No-one’s a success or failure in life”. In what ways does Cosi examine the complexities of success and failure? 7. Lucy says to Lewis‚ “Working with these people has changed you”. Has Lewis really changes at the end of the

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    The narrator in the story is insane‚ because he loves the dark. The narrator does weird things showing that he’s insane. The narrator does live in the creepy house alone sometimes. The narrator is just insane it’s kind of hard to explain. The narrator in the story is insane because the way he’s acting. He stays in the house‚ he loves the dark‚ he stays in the creepy house. The narrator in the story is insane because he’s always in the house. Don’t you think sometimes he should go outside? Staying

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    Roy reveals Roy’s sadness as audience has an epiphany that Roy’s tales of music and performance‚ along with his desire to performer ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’‚ are his way of trying to escape the sadness of his life spent unloved within orphanages and the asylum. We witness similar sadness in the life of one of the other patients‚ Ruth. The audience first sees Ruth as being obsessive compulsive with a need for control over her life. Ruth’s behaviour is very methodical and she finds trouble gasping the concept

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    They said they heard a bloody scream from the north wing. Maybe the mouth from which the scream came‚ would be the source of the fires. There have been at least three fires this past week: one in the south wing‚ and two in the north. Silverwood Asylum had been abandoned for at least ten years. The police shut it down when they discovered that the doctors performed unruly experiments on the patients. When Silverwood first opened‚ they only admitted the worst of the worst‚ once a man who had murdered

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