State a conflict that you see present in Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play (please refer to the list of conflicts).
Respond to one of the following, providing examples or quotations from the play to illustrate your ideas:
Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a character’s development. Describe two key literary techniques and elements and techniques of drama that aid in developing the conflict. Explain how and why the conflict in this comedy is different from and/or similar to the conflict explored in tragedy.
Hi everyone,
In this reflection of Sharon Cooper’s “Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play”, I see a literary conflict of individual vs. society. For example “I can’t say, Mum, Dad, Raj, I’ve chosen women over men-it’s not a hamburger over fish. You just don’t know how they’ll react. I’d run the risk of not being allowed to see my nieces. I’m so exhausted …show more content…
Kali comes from culture of inferiority, spiritual religion, where being a lesbian remains forbidden, and daughters spoken for at birth. So informing anyone that Kali was that of a lesbian was a demise for her and out of the question if she was to remain at peace within her culture and family. I feel the literary techniques used in this play are plenty although, I chose to pick simile where for example Steve explained “I just didn’t want you to think I was prejudiced against the French or anyone else… They’re like your neighbors. The French. And your neighbors are like my neighbors. And like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” Clugston (2014). The author also uses epiphany when Steve finds out that Kali is a lesbian and no one in her family not even Raj knows. A good example of this when Kali comes out of the closet to Steve at dinner and both speaking at the same time “I’m gay/ will you marry me” Clugston (2014). This becomes an internal conflict in itself because she feels that she has come clean and feels relieved, Steve asks if she
Respond to one of the following, providing examples or quotations from the play to illustrate your ideas:
Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a character’s development. Describe two key literary techniques and elements and techniques of drama that aid in developing the conflict. Explain how and why the conflict in this comedy is different from and/or similar to the conflict explored in tragedy.
Hi everyone,
In this reflection of Sharon Cooper’s “Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play”, I see a literary conflict of individual vs. society. For example “I can’t say, Mum, Dad, Raj, I’ve chosen women over men-it’s not a hamburger over fish. You just don’t know how they’ll react. I’d run the risk of not being allowed to see my nieces. I’m so exhausted …show more content…
Kali comes from culture of inferiority, spiritual religion, where being a lesbian remains forbidden, and daughters spoken for at birth. So informing anyone that Kali was that of a lesbian was a demise for her and out of the question if she was to remain at peace within her culture and family. I feel the literary techniques used in this play are plenty although, I chose to pick simile where for example Steve explained “I just didn’t want you to think I was prejudiced against the French or anyone else… They’re like your neighbors. The French. And your neighbors are like my neighbors. And like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” Clugston (2014). The author also uses epiphany when Steve finds out that Kali is a lesbian and no one in her family not even Raj knows. A good example of this when Kali comes out of the closet to Steve at dinner and both speaking at the same time “I’m gay/ will you marry me” Clugston (2014). This becomes an internal conflict in itself because she feels that she has come clean and feels relieved, Steve asks if she