Tom Stoppard Arcadia Analysis

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia combines science with social concerns and principles, exploring the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and destiny through the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, and the certainty of knowledge. With Thomasina Coverly and Hannah Jarvis, the two are from different eras but are very much similar. They believe that romantic feelings would distract people from their work and both are very much a classical character. Therefore, I pointed out Stoppard’s shift between the two eras to help the audience understand that clues from our past are evidence how we can use it to interpret the present. In my program introduction I wanted my audience to be intrigued by the periods centuries apar t. At the

end, Hannah understands the forces of nature are inseparable. The knowledge of love and academic. Therefore, I kept my audience engaged by using comparative writing as my strategy to target their minds.