Part one of term paper
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 props used sets of both eras, the characters overlapping at the end ...

Part two of term paper
... and passion themes by Thomasina’s curiosity, “tell me more about sexual congress.” while Septimus attempts to engage Thomasina’s attention in proving Fermat’s theorem. These opposites become numerous in the play as Stoppard contrasts free will and determination, science and the humanities, romantic and classical and female intuition with male dogmatism. The play, takes on a number of different meanings when looked at from different perspectives; some would claim that it is satire on ac ...