Comedy and Farce
Part One- Plot In the beginning of the play The School For Lies by David Ives, the inciting event is explained right away when Philinte mentions his friend Frank has arrived back in Paris. The reason the play starts is because Philinte wants to introduce Clitander to his friend Frank. The departure point of the play is right after Philinte’s opening monologue because Philiente was explaining to the audience about the origin of the play’s adaptation, not the actual storyline. The play really starts when Clitander enters the scene and the focus is now on the performance. Philinte and Clitander seem to know eachother well and get along nicely, until Frank is introduced to the scene. Frank is the play’s protagonist and his entrance alone is enough to …show more content…
The entire time he has hated society because he had heard the rumours about his wife. The whole city knew that she had become a whore after her husband left, and wrote letters to all sorts of men. This made Celimene the play’s antagonist, because Frank needed to know for himself if his wife was still mourning his death, or sleeping around like the rumours had stated. In the end he found out that her letters were not deceitful, but were loyal to him the entire time. She missed him and swore to never love another man. This means that Celimene was not a slut, and the true antagonist of the story is actually society itself. The denouement begins right after Frank revealed himself to be Alceste. Now that the major dramatic question has been answered and Celimene and Alcest and together again, the stasis has changed and their lives can go back to normal. Philinte walks in and is filled with excitement immediately after he sees Alceste has returned. Basque reveals that he had found his twin and a sack of money, enough to pay off Alcestis debt to Oronte. And Eliante finally sees Philinte for who he is and agrees to marry him after all. The play has now answered all possible
Part One- Plot In the beginning of the play The School For Lies by David Ives, the inciting event is explained right away when Philinte mentions his friend Frank has arrived back in Paris. The reason the play starts is because Philinte wants to introduce Clitander to his friend Frank. The departure point of the play is right after Philinte’s opening monologue because Philiente was explaining to the audience about the origin of the play’s adaptation, not the actual storyline. The play really starts when Clitander enters the scene and the focus is now on the performance. Philinte and Clitander seem to know eachother well and get along nicely, until Frank is introduced to the scene. Frank is the play’s protagonist and his entrance alone is enough to …show more content…
The entire time he has hated society because he had heard the rumours about his wife. The whole city knew that she had become a whore after her husband left, and wrote letters to all sorts of men. This made Celimene the play’s antagonist, because Frank needed to know for himself if his wife was still mourning his death, or sleeping around like the rumours had stated. In the end he found out that her letters were not deceitful, but were loyal to him the entire time. She missed him and swore to never love another man. This means that Celimene was not a slut, and the true antagonist of the story is actually society itself. The denouement begins right after Frank revealed himself to be Alceste. Now that the major dramatic question has been answered and Celimene and Alcest and together again, the stasis has changed and their lives can go back to normal. Philinte walks in and is filled with excitement immediately after he sees Alceste has returned. Basque reveals that he had found his twin and a sack of money, enough to pay off Alcestis debt to Oronte. And Eliante finally sees Philinte for who he is and agrees to marry him after all. The play has now answered all possible