Stock Characters
Stock characters are people who are stereotypical and are easily recognized by the audiences due to their many recurrences in particular traditional literary. They are not individuals but types based on social prejudices and clichés. They are mostly comfortable aims for parody. In the anonymous Everyman play, the stock characters are kindred, cousins, Fellowship, discretion, and beauty. These characters are portrayed as giving moralistic advice to the main protagonist. They are alive on their right, and the audience would not have a hard time imagining them even if they are not portrayed physically. Their main work is to let the audience know the underlying secrets on stage making standalone characters.
Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis is specific moment or tragedy in a story or plot where a major character identifies or recognizes his or her real situation or nature or the identity of the other character. This identification leads to resolution of the plot or story. An example of anagnorisis occurs in the Everyman when he realizes that all his acquired wealth, good looks as well as brains cannot accompany him on his journey with death. He realizes that he is the only one with the power to save himself and so he does what it takes to save himself. All his close family members and friends abandon him.
Role of violence in a play …show more content…
It is a reality that cannot escape the work of any artist. For example, in Sylvia Path and John Wain poetry (Wagner-Martin 72), there is an attempt to distinguish between effects and sources of recent violence. It is exhibited in frustration, anger, despair, and even suicide. It is ways of making the audience understand violence and its disadvantages so that it can be avoided in the society. Violence in any play tends to end in uncelebrated manner and hence teaches the community the need to prevent
Stock characters are people who are stereotypical and are easily recognized by the audiences due to their many recurrences in particular traditional literary. They are not individuals but types based on social prejudices and clichés. They are mostly comfortable aims for parody. In the anonymous Everyman play, the stock characters are kindred, cousins, Fellowship, discretion, and beauty. These characters are portrayed as giving moralistic advice to the main protagonist. They are alive on their right, and the audience would not have a hard time imagining them even if they are not portrayed physically. Their main work is to let the audience know the underlying secrets on stage making standalone characters.
Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis is specific moment or tragedy in a story or plot where a major character identifies or recognizes his or her real situation or nature or the identity of the other character. This identification leads to resolution of the plot or story. An example of anagnorisis occurs in the Everyman when he realizes that all his acquired wealth, good looks as well as brains cannot accompany him on his journey with death. He realizes that he is the only one with the power to save himself and so he does what it takes to save himself. All his close family members and friends abandon him.
Role of violence in a play …show more content…
It is a reality that cannot escape the work of any artist. For example, in Sylvia Path and John Wain poetry (Wagner-Martin 72), there is an attempt to distinguish between effects and sources of recent violence. It is exhibited in frustration, anger, despair, and even suicide. It is ways of making the audience understand violence and its disadvantages so that it can be avoided in the society. Violence in any play tends to end in uncelebrated manner and hence teaches the community the need to prevent