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1923
By: Elmer Rice
(Myth to Science Fiction)
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Drawing Out Your Emotions
Directions: Observe closely at the paintings in the upcoming slides. You will be given 1-2 minutes to write how each painting makes you feel? What do they remind of?
Take out your writing utensils. Ready, Set, and GO!
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Painting #1
•The night sky filled with swirling clouds, stars ablaze.•Rolling hills of the horizon lies a small town. •Dark structures and curvy lines.
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Painting #2
•Red colored sky (symbol)•Wavy lines.•Creature in the front.•Dark background of the hills/roads.•2 figures in the background.
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Painting #3
•Colors: Yellow, Red, and Blue.•Shapes: Circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines, and curves.•Placement/ organization of shapes.
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Tone in the Modernist Period (1900s: Early 20th cent.) Lonely individual fighting to find peace and
comfort in a world that has lost its absolute values and traditions.
Man is nothing except what he makes of himself.
A belief in situational ethics-no absolute values. Decisions are based on the situation one is involved in at the moment.
Mixing of fantasy with nonfiction: blurs lines of reality for readers.
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Tone in Modern Literature (continue) Decline of the “traditional” hero in literature. Mass destruction made possible by
technology. Attacks on materialism and spiritual
emptiness. Ironic Humor: Contemporary writers look at
irony and absurd situations as a cause for subtle humor.
Change of attitude toward the individual and society. View individuals in relation to others rather than as isolated from others.
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Elmer Rice (1892-1967)
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About the Playwright Elmer Reizenstein; pen name Elmer Rice Only child after Lester (younger brother) died. Second-generation German-Jewish
immigrants (poor). At age 14, quit school to help support the
family. At age 18, obtained equivalency certification
for a high school diploma. Admitted to New York Law School. Married 3 times and have 5 children in all.
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More About Rice:
Influenced by George Bernard Shaw: moral didacticism (stage as a platform to promote ideas).
At age 22, produced a successful play: “On Trail”—technique “flashback.”
Avant-garde style Soon became tireless in
freedom of speech and freedom of artistic expression.
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Rice’s Styles
His styles includes:MelodramaExpressionismNaturalismRelatively violent propaganda playsStreet Scene
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Concepts in “The Adding Machine”
Expressionist: distort reality for an emotional effect. Stream-of-consciousness: character's thoughts/
perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, w/o regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality
Avant-garde: new and against tradition. Anti-hero: main character who lacks traditional
heroic qualities. Technology: mass destruction, even though it may
benefit human’s lifestyle.
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Questions you might want to ask while reading:
How is “The Adding Machine” considered to be avant-garde?
In what scene includes “stream-of-consciousness”? What is the significance in each character? Who is the anti-hero? What kind of emotions does Rice wants us to
experience? What is Rice trying to tell us about “technology”? What is Rice’s purpose?
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Quiz Time:
At what age did Rice produced “On Trail”?
How did Rice died?Name the period in which play was
written.Define Expressionism.What is the purpose of the anti-hero?
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The Adding Machine Clip: Scene I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AuRHxfneXM