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        <title><![CDATA[What designers or artists influence the design or the garden in Arcadia?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What designers or artists influence the design or the garden in Arcadia?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Tom Stoppard make us interested in Thomasina and Septimus?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Tom Stoppard make us interested in Thomasina and Septimus?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 9 May 2009 10:55:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As you read the play, or see it performed the purpose of the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/arcadia/q-and-a/whats-point-purpose-juxtaposition-two-historical-46029</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As you read the play, or see it performed the purpose of the juxtaposition is to compare the two time periods.  Stoppard uses this style of writing so the reader will know things about the past that the characters in the present don't know. &quot;When contemporary scenes are juxtaposed on the scenes of the past, the guessing-game nature of historical studies is highlighted. The audience gets to watch Bernard and Hannah try to piece together...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:10:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the point/purpose of the juxtaposition of the two historical...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the point/purpose of the juxtaposition of the two historical periods in &quot;Arcadia&quot;? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Septimus is a romantic.  He believes in the existence of genius and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Septimus is a romantic.  He believes in the existence of genius and finds beauty in that belief.  He sees life as an adventure to discover and experience all the secrets of the universe -- secrets of the flesh, secrets of the mind, secrets of the heart.  As the play continues, however, he loses his idealism.  Life at the Croon Estate continues to bring him complications and disappoints.  He becomes bitter about the realities of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:23:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the main character changes, from Act I to II, for Septimus?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the main character changes, from Act I to II, for Septimus?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:05:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You may be on to something regarding the urge to dance coming from a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You may be on to something regarding the urge to dance coming from a female, and not the male tutor. Only MR. Stoppard could tell us for sure though.

The truth is, however, that it is essential for the protagonist to be a Thomasina and not a Thomas. The major theme of this play, and indeed the major conflict, comes from the two schools of thought - Enlightenment vs. Romanticism.

Thomasina's opening question "What is carnal embrace?" sets up...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:26:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Tom Stoppard choose to make the character of Thomasina a young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why did Tom Stoppard choose to make the character of Thomasina a young girl and not a young man?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:29 PST</pubDate>
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