Arcadia As A Postmodern Text
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Arcadia, a typically postmodern play by Tom Stoppard exemplifies this movement
through use of the features of postmodernism and by it’s ambiguous ending.
Some of the features used in the play which demonstrate this include the shifts in time from past to present, concurrent props used sets of bot ....
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.... and classical and female intuition with male dogmatism.
The play, takes on a number of different meanings when looked at from different
perspectives; some would claim that it is satire on academia and the world of researchers such as Bernard, others would say that was more about history and the fallacies of studying primary evidence. The play utilizes many theories concerning science and philosophies on life, and so many might say this play is about living life, an existential thought in th ....
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