Comparing Love And Grief In Two Versions Of Eurydice

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One thing for sure is that in both versions of Eurydice experience love and grief and that we will experience death in both. We experience a couple who loves each other deeply and how one will go to extreme measures to get his love back. Sarah Ruhl was able to take a Greek myth and modernize it which helps us understand the story better and gives the story a more realistic look. Though some of the plot is different in both the general theme and message of the story is the same. Sarah Ruhl was able to take the dialogue and change it as well as the scenery and even the plot and make it more modern to make the story more accessible to present-day theatregoers. The first and most obvious way in which the story was modernized was in the form of

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