Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Themes

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
(An analysis of themes found in Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)
In the modern world, technology revolves all around us. Most people cannot go five minutes without their cell phones or tablets. Social media controls our minds and has changed the way people interact with others. Our generations have become rude and do not know how to think before acting. This technology however, did not come from thin air. Technology has come from physics and engineering. Technology has been developing over the several centuries. We can thank people like Isaac Newton, who discovered the laws of gravity and inertia. All of these things stem from an apple falling on a man’s head. The genius playwright Tom Stoppard plays the game of imagination and discovery in his text Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Stoppard addresses man’s curiosity, fate, and …show more content…
They were summoned for by King Claudius, but don’t know why. They only know that they are supposed to be there. This is much like life. A majority of people on the earth do not know what their purposes are in life. They are simply people living life, but they do not know why. Life truly is one big blur and can be extremely confusing. Much like life, Stoppard’s play depicts Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as men just living life, and discovering the wonders of life, all-the-while, not knowing what they are truly doing. Throughout the play, GUildenstern asks Rosencrantz a series of questions about life. Guildenstern wants to know the first thing Rosencrantz remembers about life. Later, he wants to know the purpose of their visit to Denmark, as well as the purpose of life. No one truly knows why they are alive and what their purpose is. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are reflections of the world and how people are searching for their