Arcadia As A Postmodern Text

Part I of Essay
Arcadia, a typically postmodern play by Tom Stoppard exemplifies this movement through use of the features of postmodernism and by it’s ambiguous ending. Some of the features used in the play which demonstrate this include the shifts in time from past to present, concurrent ....

Part II of Essay
.... meanings when looked at from different perspectives; some would claim that it is satire on academia and the world of researchers such as Bernard, others would say that was more about history and the fallacies of studying primary evidence. The play utilizes many theories concerning science and philosophies on life, and so many might say this play is about living life, an existential thought in the play as Thomasina fulfills her potential in life and burns on the eve of her seventeenth birthday. Time is used in the play very cleverly ....