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4. Select a passage from the concluding chapter of a novel you have chosen to study and show how acting, staging effects and design can combine to make it an effective ending for an audience.- start from where Desiree is living like a princess and suddenly Andrea came back and Desiree got to move out of Daniel's room, till the end where Desiree dies and the butterflies came to accomplish her wish, but her body got through to the trash. (maybe start with a little about how hard she worked on to look for her love, Daniel, in this way the contrast could be more solid and obvious and will be effective to audiences and easy to understand)- show the contrast between "princess with love" vs. "peasant girl with nothing"- pretty dresses and makeup vs. dirty ripped dress and dirt, no shoes, etc- beautiful lighting (fancy color) vs. only spotlight or weak yellow- big settings of big rooms, buildings with everyone around Desiree vs. small room in the corner with no one around her, everyone else is talking to others in the lobby- the contrasts show that her life was good, she enjoyed what she wanted for only a while, and everything suddenly changed. She came back to the peasant girl but this time she has nothing, no friends, no family, no gods. Let audiences to feel the tragedy that happened on this girl. - Desiree could act the obvious difference between happiness and sadness with abjectness, Daniel should act out how he treated Desiree differently before and after, Ex: taking care of her and loving her vs. does not talk to her, glanced Desiree before she dies
6. Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which contains a scene of pivotalimportance to a theme in the narrative. Outline how you would stage the scene paying particularattention to how the theme might be effectively dramatized for an audience.
- the scene where Desiree traded her soul with Papa Ge is pivotal importance to the theme "love"
- maybe start from where Desiree looked into Daniel's eyes for that one sight, where she knew that she falls in love with Daniel
6. Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which contains a scene of pivotalimportance to a theme in the narrative. Outline how you would stage the scene paying particularattention to how the theme might be effectively dramatized for an audience.
- the scene where Desiree traded her soul with Papa Ge is pivotal importance to the theme "love"
- maybe start from where Desiree looked into Daniel's eyes for that one sight, where she knew that she falls in love with Daniel
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