FOUR AREAS OF COMPARISON

BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND THORNTON WILDER

 

 

 

FOUR AREAS        1. Presentation of death

        Of                    2. Background information

COMPARISON      3. Sets mood

                                4. Usage of scenery and props

 

 

                        THORNTON WILDER                          THE GREEKS

 

Presentation          Deaths occur off stage                  Also occurs off stage                       

of Death                  Uses Stage Manager to                 Uses a chorus to inform the audience

                                inform the audience

 

 

Background           Stage Manager gives                     Chorus possesses the same ability

Information               summaries/opinions

                                Tells of past/future

                                        events

                                Omniscient

 

Sets mood               SM sets mood of depression/        Tells the audience how to feel through

                                        mourning in Act III                         the chorus

 

 

Usage of                                          Neither used scenery or props

Scenery & props                           Necessity for use of imagination

                                                                and participation