Lorca 1

Ibsen pastiche

Wilma Buffit. What is college like?

Amanda Reconwith. Oh don’t worry yourself about something like that dear.

Wilma. Daddy never liked college; he said it was a place of hard discipline and strenuous labor.

Amanda. Yes he certainly did.

Wilma. But didn’t college help daddy get-

Amanda. You know you cant go to college and go to the doctor. We haven’t the money.

Wilma. I know.

I chose the names because I thought they emphasized the absurdity of someone living their entire life as a lie and to portray the characters in a skewed, grotesque way to show how people will destroy anything to enforce their beliefs. I made Wilma (Hedvig) wonder about college because it shows her curiosity of the world but Amanda tells her no because she believes Wilma’s health is more important than her education.  Wilma accepts what her mother tells her because she is loyal and gullible. She will believe anything her parents say or accept any belief they have.

Antigone pastiche

Chorus. Today was a new beginning of the end. It has been foretold many different times and many different ways but today was the newest. The passing of 2011 marked a new beginning for doomsayers. They tell of a close end. They overlook the past ends and focus upon the newest one.

I chose to do the pastiche over people predicting the end of the world in 2012 because it demonstrates the ridiculousness involved in senselessly predicting death. Antigone felt like she had to die in order to carry out her cause, doomsayers feel that everyone will die anyways so people should do what the doomsayers want them to do. It is absurd.