Essay questions for you to practice over the revision period
HOW THE AUTHOR CONSTRUCTS MEANING QUESTIONS
1. ‘The play within the play enables the audience to gain a deeper insight into the plight of the characters.’ To what extent do you agree?
2. ‘Nowra uses comedy to challenge our perceptions about mental illness and what it means to be “normal”.’ Discuss
3. Cosi is a play within a play. How does Nowra use this theatrical device to explore his major themes?
4. How does Nowra use theatrical conventions to explore the ideas of reality and illusion?
CHARACTER QUESTIONS
1. “The patients are merely foils to the character of Lewis – it is his transformation that is the focus of the drama.” Discuss this point of view with reference to scenes and lines from the play.
2. How is the character of Lewis central to Cosi?
3. ‘While Lewis may be the play’s protagonist Roy is undoubtedly its star.’ Discuss.
4. ‘We admire Lewis for the moral stance he takes.’ To what extent do you agree?
5. “Working with these people has changed you.” (Lucy)
Lewis is not the same man as he was the beginning of the play. Discuss.
6. ‘Lewis’ involvement in the play transforms him to a remarkable extent.’ Discuss.
USING A CHARACTER TO ILLUSTRATE A THEME
1. ‘Cosi confirms Justin’s inadvertent insight that these are ‘normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts’.’ Do you agree?
2. ‘The depiction of the politically committed characters in Cosi represents a distorted view of the student movement.’ Do you agree?
3. ‘The characters in Cosi suggest that we are all longing for purpose and intimacy in our lives.’ Discuss.
4. ‘The characters in Cosi are simply “normal people who have done extraordinary things.” To what extent do you agree?
5. Both the characters from the “normal world” and the characters from the asylum are driven by the human need for art. Discuss.
6. What is most extraordinary about the characters in the play is their everyday ordinariness. Discuss.
7. Cosi succeeds because we see the characters as people first and patients second. Discuss.
8. ‘Lewis benefits more from the production of Cosi Fan Tutte than the patients he has been hired to direct.’ Do you agree?
DEMONSTRATING AN UNDERSTANDING OF A KEY THEME/IDEA/VALUE
1. ‘Nowra challenges his audience with their own attitudes to madness and addiction.’ Discuss.
2. ‘Cosi demonstrates that most of our attitudes to mental illness are based in ignorance.’ Do you agree?
3. ‘Nowra challenges his audience with their own stereotypes about madness and addiction.’ Discuss.
4. ‘Amidst the frivolity of Cosi’s comic episodes is a sombre examination of our treatment of mental illness.’ Discuss.
5. Cosi shows us that ‘fairytale endings’ do not reflect real life. How does Nowra’s play show us the complexity of people’s existence?
6. ‘Cosi shows that the desire for art flourishes in the most unlikely of environments.’ Discuss.
7. ‘Nowra examines how political commitment without human empathy is a hollow project.’ Discuss.
8. ‘Creative fulfilment and the richness of an imaginative life are the most effective forms of therapy.’ Do you agree?
9. Cosi shows us that the theatre has the power to transform lives. To what extent do you agree?
10. Cosi Fan Tutti is essentially a misogynistic opera and this is reflected in the depiction of the women in the play. To what extent do you agree?
11. ‘Cosi presents us with the consequences of ‘unresolved conflicts’. Discuss.
12. ‘This play condemns love as “an emotional indulgence for the privileged few.” Discuss.
13. Louis Nowra’s play Cosi questions the authenticity of love’ Discuss
14. ‘Nowra shows that it is the confinement inherent in institutional life that exacerbates the conditions of patients.’ Discuss.
15. Cosi shows us that there is as much madness in the outside world as there is within a mental institution. Discuss.
16. “Love is not so important nowadays.”
17. ‘Cosi is a play about the importance of love and fidelity regardless of time and place.’ Do you agree?
18. “I can live with illusion as long as I know it’s illusion, but this coffee is not real, is it?”
‘Cosi challenges us to question what is real and what is illusion.’ Discuss.
19. Cosi is a reminder of how vulnerable people are. To what extent do you agree?
20. Cosi demonstrates that only those who are prepared to take risks who achieve success. Discuss
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Zac
Name: Zac - mental patient, musician, house painter
Personal qualities: funny, placid on drugs, horny, excitable of drugs, Caught in his own world
Relationships: Zac doesn’t form any relationships due to him either being catatonic, on drugs or hyper active off drugs. This leads him to only have brief momentary conversations only really forming acquaintances and the other cast members. He pursues Ruth for a sexual relationship. Seems oblivious to the inappropriateness of this.
Conflict: Zac’s major conflict is with Ruth when he pulls up her skirt during he blackout and she pushes him over. But he also has conflicts with Roy about the play with the direction of the music, set painting and who wrote the opera.
Motivational goals: Zac is motivated by music and music alone. It is his motivation/direction to continue in the play. His musical aspirations are also shown when he attains minor success with a band.
Zac Key Quotes:
‘I’m prepared to play this pissy score for the whole opera, only if I do the overture my way, or else its exit the pianist.'
‘A lower dosage, it’s amazing how much more bright the world seems.’
‘Hey, let’s have an orgy.’
‘Women. You have to wrap it all up in fancy language and then they swoon for you when all it comes down to it the same thing.’
‘Women are god’s punishment for men playing with themselves.’
by Sarah & Jason
Other things to note about Zac:
Zac is also a source of humour - insisting on an overture by Wagner rather than Mozart - totally irrelevant in the scheme of things. Also his dramatic collapse on stage at the end after taking too many pills to calm his nerves.
Nowra uses this character to criticise the use of inappropriate dosages of medication in treating mental illness. His whole existence is influenced by how much drugs he has in his system - from catatonic to manic. Note that once he is out of the institution he is able to function normally.
Personal qualities: funny, placid on drugs, horny, excitable of drugs, Caught in his own world
Relationships: Zac doesn’t form any relationships due to him either being catatonic, on drugs or hyper active off drugs. This leads him to only have brief momentary conversations only really forming acquaintances and the other cast members. He pursues Ruth for a sexual relationship. Seems oblivious to the inappropriateness of this.
Conflict: Zac’s major conflict is with Ruth when he pulls up her skirt during he blackout and she pushes him over. But he also has conflicts with Roy about the play with the direction of the music, set painting and who wrote the opera.
Motivational goals: Zac is motivated by music and music alone. It is his motivation/direction to continue in the play. His musical aspirations are also shown when he attains minor success with a band.
Zac Key Quotes:
‘I’m prepared to play this pissy score for the whole opera, only if I do the overture my way, or else its exit the pianist.'
‘A lower dosage, it’s amazing how much more bright the world seems.’
‘Hey, let’s have an orgy.’
‘Women. You have to wrap it all up in fancy language and then they swoon for you when all it comes down to it the same thing.’
‘Women are god’s punishment for men playing with themselves.’
by Sarah & Jason
Other things to note about Zac:
Zac is also a source of humour - insisting on an overture by Wagner rather than Mozart - totally irrelevant in the scheme of things. Also his dramatic collapse on stage at the end after taking too many pills to calm his nerves.
Nowra uses this character to criticise the use of inappropriate dosages of medication in treating mental illness. His whole existence is influenced by how much drugs he has in his system - from catatonic to manic. Note that once he is out of the institution he is able to function normally.
Ruth
DETAILS:
Aged between 30 & 40. Ruth has been in and out of institutions due to her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She tends to be fixated on the minor details that Lewis seems to overlook. Because of her OCD she doesn’t cope with the idea of illusion and has difficulty comprehending anything other than literal interpretations.
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
A survivor
Resilient
Determined
Controlled
Obsessive
Hopeful
Needy
Dull
Fragile - needs reassurance
RELATIONSHIPS & CONFLICT:
Ruth has not had happy relationships in her life. During the blackout she reveals that her ex-boyfriend used to tie her up and keep her locked up in a wardrobe so as she would run away. She has since then come to the conclusion that he only wanted her for sex. They soon broke up after she slashed his tyres.
Also during the blackout (after revealing her past relationship) Zac feels Ruth up in an attempt to have sex with her. She warns him to stop but he continues with no hesitation after her warnings. She slaps him in the face after persisting, leading to a bloody nose for Zac.
Ruth has not got many friends or friendships which is evident that she more of a solitary figure.
MOTIVATION AND GOALS:
One goal of Ruth’s to finish the play to her best ability, she does not state it directly but it is evident as to how much she thinks about her every move. (even with the (OCD).
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
At the end of the play Lewis announces that Ruth left the institution to become a time and motion expert. This shows intellectual growth as it shows she is able to sustain a career and become an expert as well as make her own decisions.
Lewis mentioned nothing about Ruth getting married or having a boyfriend or kids. This may be that she has still not developed emotionally to have a stable relationship.
KEY QUOTES:
“So we’ll pretend” Act1Sc pg10
“…I’m not going to sing a song that is not word perfect.” Act1Sc2 pg13
“I can live with illusion as long as I know it’s illusion” Act1Sc3 pg26
“I can handle something being an illusion or real but not at the same time” Act1Sc3 pg26
“You’re doing a fine job of messing with my head!” Act1Sc3 pg29
“How many steps do you want me to take?... Large or small? Because, if its small, then it could be up to ten, maybe eleven.” Act1Sc3 pg30
“Learnt my lines. I’m word perfect. Go on, test me… Any place, any time. I know what I’m doing and everyone else. Test me.” Act1Sc4 pg38
“Yes, the more real it is, the more real it is” Act2Sc1 pg60
“Comedy is better when it’s real.” Act2Sc1 pg61
“I used to have a boyfriend who tied me up…so I wouldn’t run away. Four knots or maybe it was three.” Act2Sc1 pg66
“He just wanted me for sex. Men like sex more than women because they don’t have to clean up the mess” Act2Sc1 pg66
“I don’t care who you are – stop it!... Touch me again and I’ll make you regret it!” Act2Sc1 pg67
“I hate goodbyes, so when the others come out tell them im waiting outside counting the stars” Act2Sc5 pg85
by Emily, Megan Cassie & Cori
Other things to note about Ruth:
Humour - becomes a time and motion expert once she leaves the institution
Is used by Nowra to explore the theme of illusion and reality
Aged between 30 & 40. Ruth has been in and out of institutions due to her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She tends to be fixated on the minor details that Lewis seems to overlook. Because of her OCD she doesn’t cope with the idea of illusion and has difficulty comprehending anything other than literal interpretations.
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
A survivor
Resilient
Determined
Controlled
Obsessive
Hopeful
Needy
Dull
Fragile - needs reassurance
RELATIONSHIPS & CONFLICT:
Ruth has not had happy relationships in her life. During the blackout she reveals that her ex-boyfriend used to tie her up and keep her locked up in a wardrobe so as she would run away. She has since then come to the conclusion that he only wanted her for sex. They soon broke up after she slashed his tyres.
Also during the blackout (after revealing her past relationship) Zac feels Ruth up in an attempt to have sex with her. She warns him to stop but he continues with no hesitation after her warnings. She slaps him in the face after persisting, leading to a bloody nose for Zac.
Ruth has not got many friends or friendships which is evident that she more of a solitary figure.
MOTIVATION AND GOALS:
One goal of Ruth’s to finish the play to her best ability, she does not state it directly but it is evident as to how much she thinks about her every move. (even with the (OCD).
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
At the end of the play Lewis announces that Ruth left the institution to become a time and motion expert. This shows intellectual growth as it shows she is able to sustain a career and become an expert as well as make her own decisions.
Lewis mentioned nothing about Ruth getting married or having a boyfriend or kids. This may be that she has still not developed emotionally to have a stable relationship.
KEY QUOTES:
“So we’ll pretend” Act1Sc pg10
“…I’m not going to sing a song that is not word perfect.” Act1Sc2 pg13
“I can live with illusion as long as I know it’s illusion” Act1Sc3 pg26
“I can handle something being an illusion or real but not at the same time” Act1Sc3 pg26
“You’re doing a fine job of messing with my head!” Act1Sc3 pg29
“How many steps do you want me to take?... Large or small? Because, if its small, then it could be up to ten, maybe eleven.” Act1Sc3 pg30
“Learnt my lines. I’m word perfect. Go on, test me… Any place, any time. I know what I’m doing and everyone else. Test me.” Act1Sc4 pg38
“Yes, the more real it is, the more real it is” Act2Sc1 pg60
“Comedy is better when it’s real.” Act2Sc1 pg61
“I used to have a boyfriend who tied me up…so I wouldn’t run away. Four knots or maybe it was three.” Act2Sc1 pg66
“He just wanted me for sex. Men like sex more than women because they don’t have to clean up the mess” Act2Sc1 pg66
“I don’t care who you are – stop it!... Touch me again and I’ll make you regret it!” Act2Sc1 pg67
“I hate goodbyes, so when the others come out tell them im waiting outside counting the stars” Act2Sc5 pg85
by Emily, Megan Cassie & Cori
Other things to note about Ruth:
Humour - becomes a time and motion expert once she leaves the institution
Is used by Nowra to explore the theme of illusion and reality
Julie
NAME/DETAILS:
-Julie is in her early 20’s
-Has is a drug addiction
-She is the most ‘normal’ inmate
-Is in a lesbian relationship
-Newest to the ward
-Falls for Lewis
-Has a cynical view on love
-Understands and appreciates the opera
-Dies of a drug overdose
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
-Attractive -Unassuming -Subdued -Passive
-Appealing -Open minded -Surveys -Probing
-Honest -Loyal -Non-judgemental -Opinionative
-Vulnerable -Quiet -Straightforward -Considerate
RELATIONSHIPS
-Still has contact with her family even though they were people who put her in the institution saying “They think it’s sort of a holiday”
-Has a girlfriend
-Falls for Lewis during the play
-Is excluded from the other inmates
CONFLICTS
-Cherry thinks Julie likes Lewis so she becomes very jealous towards Julie. Cherry has a love at first sight relationship with Lewis and is very protective of him. As a result Cherry attempts to stab Julie with her flick knife when she hears fake rumours of them being together.
MOTIVATION/GOALS
-Wants to get out of the asylum
-Persists for the play to go ahead
-Moves to Sydney
EMOTIONAL& INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
-Stays with her girlfriend even though she falls for Lewis, because she feels she needs someone stable in her life
-Gets to leave the asylum to live in the normal world, because they think she has overcome her drug addiction. In the end, she dies of a drug overdose not so long after release somewhere in Sydney, which identifies even though she was sane and got put in a mental institution and was released she ended up no better than the other patients or possibly worse.
JULIE QUOTES
“I had to go and see one of the shrinks. They don’t know how to deal with drug users”
“Rocket to the stars – (referring to drugs)”
“A laugh is as good as a fuck, they say.”
“I would love to hit up right now."
“My parents had me committed; they think it’s sort of a holiday.”
“Doug hates them because he likes to be naturally high all the time. Zac likes them because everything passes like he’s in a dream or limbo.”
“Drugs make me feel sort of living.”
“Some people can’t imagine life without love; well I can’t imagine life without junk.”
“I’d just shot up. Beautiful stuff. Felt like mercury, no finger could hold me down.”
”Hairdresser. I’d do a good job on you now because I’m not on junk.”
“That’s what love is, being foolish.”
“I’ve always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It’s about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It’s not divine madness like some people think, there’s no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.”
“That’s what I hate about the wards- they-re never really totally dark.”
“It’s just as easy for women to fall in love as it is for a man.”
“I think I fell for you.”
“I need something stable in my life. I need my girlfriend.”
by Jenna & Lauren
-Julie is in her early 20’s
-Has is a drug addiction
-She is the most ‘normal’ inmate
-Is in a lesbian relationship
-Newest to the ward
-Falls for Lewis
-Has a cynical view on love
-Understands and appreciates the opera
-Dies of a drug overdose
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
-Attractive -Unassuming -Subdued -Passive
-Appealing -Open minded -Surveys -Probing
-Honest -Loyal -Non-judgemental -Opinionative
-Vulnerable -Quiet -Straightforward -Considerate
RELATIONSHIPS
-Still has contact with her family even though they were people who put her in the institution saying “They think it’s sort of a holiday”
-Has a girlfriend
-Falls for Lewis during the play
-Is excluded from the other inmates
CONFLICTS
-Cherry thinks Julie likes Lewis so she becomes very jealous towards Julie. Cherry has a love at first sight relationship with Lewis and is very protective of him. As a result Cherry attempts to stab Julie with her flick knife when she hears fake rumours of them being together.
MOTIVATION/GOALS
-Wants to get out of the asylum
-Persists for the play to go ahead
-Moves to Sydney
EMOTIONAL& INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
-Stays with her girlfriend even though she falls for Lewis, because she feels she needs someone stable in her life
-Gets to leave the asylum to live in the normal world, because they think she has overcome her drug addiction. In the end, she dies of a drug overdose not so long after release somewhere in Sydney, which identifies even though she was sane and got put in a mental institution and was released she ended up no better than the other patients or possibly worse.
JULIE QUOTES
“I had to go and see one of the shrinks. They don’t know how to deal with drug users”
“Rocket to the stars – (referring to drugs)”
“A laugh is as good as a fuck, they say.”
“I would love to hit up right now."
“My parents had me committed; they think it’s sort of a holiday.”
“Doug hates them because he likes to be naturally high all the time. Zac likes them because everything passes like he’s in a dream or limbo.”
“Drugs make me feel sort of living.”
“Some people can’t imagine life without love; well I can’t imagine life without junk.”
“I’d just shot up. Beautiful stuff. Felt like mercury, no finger could hold me down.”
”Hairdresser. I’d do a good job on you now because I’m not on junk.”
“That’s what love is, being foolish.”
“I’ve always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It’s about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It’s not divine madness like some people think, there’s no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.”
“That’s what I hate about the wards- they-re never really totally dark.”
“It’s just as easy for women to fall in love as it is for a man.”
“I think I fell for you.”
“I need something stable in my life. I need my girlfriend.”
by Jenna & Lauren
Cherry
Name: Cherry
Details: Aged 25-35, has been institutionalised for quite some time
Personal Qualities:
Possessive
Threatening
Impulsive
Violent
Jealous
Confident
Courageous
Competitive
Alert
Optimistic
Buoyant
Vivacious
Self confident
Energetic
Gossiper
Relationships/conflict
Between Cherry and Lewis. Cherry is instantly infatuated with Lewis more and more as time goes on. Cherry is desperate for love with Lewis. Cherry wants a relationship with Lewis, however, she treats him in a motherly way.
Between Doug and Cherry. Is a mutual dislike. She threatens to hurt him several times during the play. Doug treats Cherry much worse than the other mental patients.
Between Cherry and Julie. Cherry is very jealous towards Julie because Lewis shows Julie more romantic attention compared to Cherry who he is treats in a very appropriate way.
Motivation/goals: Obviously like most of the patients Cherry ultimately wants to leave the asylum but in the mean time Cherry’s motivation to continue doing the play is because she wants to end up with Lewis.
Emotional and intellectual growth: Cherry becomes very loyal towards the play, as well as being loyal to Lewis. At the beginning of the play Cherry only listens to Lewis however at the end of the play she is much bossier and takes instructions into her own hands.
Quotes:
“Why a woman’s heart would soften towards a man.”
“Go burn a cat.”
“Most women fight hard to keep men out of their pants. You may like being foolish, but most women are not.”
by Emily, Megan, Cassie & Cori
Details: Aged 25-35, has been institutionalised for quite some time
Personal Qualities:
Possessive
Threatening
Impulsive
Violent
Jealous
Confident
Courageous
Competitive
Alert
Optimistic
Buoyant
Vivacious
Self confident
Energetic
Gossiper
Relationships/conflict
Between Cherry and Lewis. Cherry is instantly infatuated with Lewis more and more as time goes on. Cherry is desperate for love with Lewis. Cherry wants a relationship with Lewis, however, she treats him in a motherly way.
Between Doug and Cherry. Is a mutual dislike. She threatens to hurt him several times during the play. Doug treats Cherry much worse than the other mental patients.
Between Cherry and Julie. Cherry is very jealous towards Julie because Lewis shows Julie more romantic attention compared to Cherry who he is treats in a very appropriate way.
Motivation/goals: Obviously like most of the patients Cherry ultimately wants to leave the asylum but in the mean time Cherry’s motivation to continue doing the play is because she wants to end up with Lewis.
Emotional and intellectual growth: Cherry becomes very loyal towards the play, as well as being loyal to Lewis. At the beginning of the play Cherry only listens to Lewis however at the end of the play she is much bossier and takes instructions into her own hands.
Quotes:
“Why a woman’s heart would soften towards a man.”
“Go burn a cat.”
“Most women fight hard to keep men out of their pants. You may like being foolish, but most women are not.”
by Emily, Megan, Cassie & Cori
Doug
*Pyromaniac
Personal Qualities:-Aggressive nature, threatening, dominant, volatile, rude, uncouth, coarse, criticising, disrespectful, frank, intimidating, sexually charged, mischievous, cheeky, rough.
Relationships:Doug has an unresolved problem with his mother, which makes for a poor relationship. He feels his ego has taken a severe battering from is mother, because, despite his age, she still treats him like a child. He felt he had to stand up to his mother to resolve the conflict.
Conflict:
Doug and his mother clearly didn’t get along. He was told by a doctor he had to resolve the conflict with his mother. He felt it necessary to do so by paying her back for treating him like a child. So one day he gathered her 5 cats and lit them on fire. His plan backfired as one cat ran into the house and burnt the house down. He was put into the asylum and still faces problems with his mother.
Motivation/Goals:
Doug merely longs for a personal connection with others, but how he speaks to people is his main barrier. He is determined from day one to burn the theatre to the ground. He lights small fires here and there and is eventually placed in a closed ward. Lewis taking over his role in the play wouldn’t have helped preventing Doug from trying to the burn the theatre down. A motivating factor for Doug was his anger, anger with his mother, with his world and angry with his lack of connection to the theatre. In the end we find the theatre was burnt down, Doug being the major suspect of course.
Emotional and intellectual growth:
As a person, Doug doesn’t mature a lot during the play. He kept to his ways of being cruel to those who he saw to be weaker than himself, often women, and he also remained an angry person because of a number of reasons. However, as he is articulate and perceptive, his intelligence enables him to manipulate both those in his circumstances and those around him, but he continues with the same emotional mindset throughout the play. Lighting fires was his only way to get his mind off his problem.
Key quotes associated with Doug:
-One main quote associated with Doug is, “Go burn a cat!” Used by at least 3 different characters throughout the play. It is so important because it relates directly and literally to the things he has done in his past. It is seen by the patients as the only way to hurt him deep down, because it triggers the memories of his mother.
-Doug’s main quote, coming under the theme of Love is; “(about Lucy) You said she was into free love didn’t you? Can’t get over it. you do this old fashioned opera-this is the era of free love and orgies.” This is typical of Doug’s mindset. He links love directly to sex, which links in to him seeing women as sexual objects.
-Doug’s main quote, coming under the theme of Fidelity is; “Women like to pretend they don’t play around, but they’re just more secretive about it. They don’t brag like men.” Doug tends to believe what he hears. Not knowing about Doug’s personal relationships with other women, readers are lead to believe this, because he would have little respect and trust in women, because of his mother.
-Doug is given a lot of one-liners in the play to provide a comedic side to it. These are suited to his character as he is seen to be a bit of a larrikin.
by Garrison & Callum
Henry
DETAILS:
Lawyer
40 – 50 years old
Plays Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte
Has been institutionalised for the majority of his life
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Passionate
Patriotic
Vulnerable
Nostalgic
Intelligent
Traditional
Baffled
Frustrated
Conservative
RELATIONSHIPS:
Wife, temptress – “my wife was like Dorabella” pg 64
Parents, father fought in the Korean War – “My fffffather fought in the war. For you and ffffor me. He was a gggreat man. You are traitors.” Pg 47
CONFLICT: With Nick in regards to views on Vietnam War.
GOALS: To perform in the play to the best of his ability.
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
Henry is a slow and almost insecure character
Shy- Becomes more confident
Child like – represented by soldiers
QUOTES:
Fidelity - “Whether woman can remain true is a ttttragedy” pg 49
Political views, Nick – “Traitors! Traitors! Traitors!” pg 46
Lewis, communism – “you make fun of us by making us communists.” Pg 48
by Blake, Nicole & Jess
Lawyer
40 – 50 years old
Plays Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte
Has been institutionalised for the majority of his life
PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Passionate
Patriotic
Vulnerable
Nostalgic
Intelligent
Traditional
Baffled
Frustrated
Conservative
RELATIONSHIPS:
Wife, temptress – “my wife was like Dorabella” pg 64
Parents, father fought in the Korean War – “My fffffather fought in the war. For you and ffffor me. He was a gggreat man. You are traitors.” Pg 47
CONFLICT: With Nick in regards to views on Vietnam War.
GOALS: To perform in the play to the best of his ability.
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH:
Henry is a slow and almost insecure character
Shy- Becomes more confident
Child like – represented by soldiers
QUOTES:
Fidelity - “Whether woman can remain true is a ttttragedy” pg 49
Political views, Nick – “Traitors! Traitors! Traitors!” pg 46
Lewis, communism – “you make fun of us by making us communists.” Pg 48
by Blake, Nicole & Jess
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