'All my sons' does generally fit the typical 'Tragic' themed play. It fits into the whole 24 hour time set and has a couple of tragic incedents that have taken place before the 24 hours in which the audience reads.
It holds host to a ghost or a past that comes back to haunt the present. It also toys with fate and destiny in the way that it tries to show that everybodies life has a certain path in which it follows.
Another aspect that leads me to believe that the play is a tragedy is simply the ways in which the characters are all portrayed. Hamlets 'Ophelia' is very much simular to 'All my sons' Kate, in the way that every event that takes place has some sort of effect of her be it the death of the son, the marriage taking place between her son's widow and her other son of even more over the death of her husband Joe.
The play holds host to suicide, death, fate, destiny, betrayal, diseption loyalty or lack of.
there is alot of blame or trying to envoke blame on another person throughout the play because it seems nobody can take responsibility for their own actions. They all try to justify their actions in some sort of way to avoid the consiquences.
Theres alot of things that have hidden meanings behind them such as the tree, the tree for example is significant because it represents possibly hope that 'Larry' is still alive, obviously during the play or before it , the tree just happens to fall down on the particular day that ann comes to visit. This could connote the fact that now ann is here to reveal the truth, the hope is gone. Hence the tree being no more.
The unloyalty and diseption in this play is phoemominal it seems nobody actually cares about the love of their family untill it is in complete dispear. Though Joe does try to justify his actions by claming he was doing it to give his family a better life. Ann hides the letter for Kate for almost three years when she could have ended her tourment from the very beggining. And although Larry is dead, Chris wants to run of with his dead brothers 'Girl'.
Chris seems to be very realistic in all that he does, he doesnt seem bothered about his brothers death as such, he more or less seems to be over it.
Its quite hard to explain the way in which the play is tragic, it just has alot of key features that make it absolutly tragic in the sense that everybody is so selfish and only look out really for themselves.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
How far can we say that the play is a tragedy?
Posted by Dann at 6:33 AM
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very good dan lol you wrote quite a bit to ^_^
p.s diseption is spelt deception XD
I see what you mean i like the way youve talked about the symbolism of the tree and how youve talked about unloyalty.
Woo go dann ^_^
1. I agree they are similar.
2. I like how you connected the play to hamley. Mainly Ophelia.
3. "everybodies" Nice.
4. You have some interesting ideas most of which a agree with such as how you think the play revolves around betrayal and death and such.
i dont like the way you connected kate to Ophelia they are completely different, Ophelia is naive, Kate is just choosing to believe someone is alive, and Ophelia was pushed into insanity.
I only think Chris has gotten over his brothers death becasue he too was in the war and knows the possibility that he is more lilely to be dead then alive.
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i agree with all of it. especially the bit about Larry's tree and "now ann is here to reveal the truth, the hope is gone". i didn't think of it like that :)
i don't think chris is that realistic thought, i think its more a case of he's a dreamer in a way, the only reason he wants to believe larry is dead, is so he can be with ann. he does seem a very genuine character though despite this.
p.s..the connection between kate + ophelia is good, but agree with anne, kate's not naive like ophelia was. she knows all about Joe's involvement in the dodgy business thing and maybe she doesn't want to admit larry's dead because that would mean admitting joe's possibly guilty of killing their son?
p.s.s thanks for the great comment ^_^
i do agree with you both alothough i wasnt comparinig their characteristics just the way in which every thing seems to effect them both in some sort of way.
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