Scene 6 - Arcadia
LOOK AGAIN AT THE SECOND SCENE OF ACT 2, WHICH STARTS WITH THE STAGE DIRECTION “THE ROOM IS EMPTY”. WRITE ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS SCENE, PAYING ATTENTION TO STOPPARD’S PRESENTATION OF CHARACTER AS WELL AS HIS DEVELOPMENT OF PLOT.Throughout the entire course of the play Arcadia, Tom Stoppard carefully advances and unravels details of both character and plot in each scene, letting information out a bit at a time so that as we learn more, so more questions are raised that are answered in later scenes, et cetera. This very careful and deliberate construction of the play’s layers is particularly evident in scene six, the second scene of the second act of the play. It is in this scene that many of the plot strands that have been slowly building in the 1800s section of the play finally come to some kind of climax; indeed, this is the last scene to be set in 1809 and brings the action there to a close (the 1800s portion of scene seven being set three years later, in 1812). We learn some very important details about the characters of Lady Croom and Septimus Hodge in this scene, making it in many ways the crux of the whole play, or at the very least the 1800s sections of it. The first major fact to bear in mind about this s
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Approximate Word count = 1686
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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