Music and Motion

Realities

I recently discover an animated show called Rick and Morty. I am addicted to it. The show pushes the boundaries of what science can do. On the surface, the show seems to be targeting to kids adventures and gadgets, but every episode is food for thought. Rick, the crazy intelligent scientist travels and jumps between dimensions. Many times the producers played with the idea of time and different possible of what can occur, linking back to the String Theory. Anything is possible. All of our actions are guided by statistics. The possibility of you not going to work or school is lower than the possibility that you do. While the possibility that you drink water this instance verse not drinking water is 50/50. Once the factor of temperature comes into play the percentages shifts. You will most likely to drink water in a hot summer day.

Religion

I don’t usually like to talk about religion, because people get offended easily. I don’t believe in any religion, but I won’t say that I am an atheist because that’s little extreme. There is no evidence to prove or disprove the idea of higher power controlling our lives. Therefore I am just in between. But one day, I suddenly developed a thought to explain to myself of why some people are so devoted on an “imaginary being”. If you are someone who is very committed to their church, I recommend you to stop reading here, otherwise I welcome to my Religion Theory. One day while watching the show, South Park, I had a thought that maybe religion or the idea of God or such a place as heaven or hell keeps people in their places. The fear of going to hell control the savage beast in every one of us. It compels us to become submissive and obedient civilized humans. When the world falls from calamities, religion is the only thing that keep a person from insanity. Right on the very edge is the line that differentiates chaos and madness from peace and reason. Religion becomes the ropes that the person can use to drag themselves back to the area of peace and reason. In the story of the Greek myth, Pandora’s Box. After Pandora opens the box and let all the evil into the world, the only thing that was left was just hope. In reality when a person faces problems, conflicts, and dilemma the only thing that person can do is hope. If you disagree and found yourself insulted, all I can say is fin. I will not apologize. And I want to cordially remind you that this is only a THEORY.

Body Image

Over the course of years, people have become more accepting of body fat. We created the phrase “fat shaming” on social media on anyone who mock other base on their body size. Now the idea of skinny, lean, or thin have subsequently build a bad connotation. People use phrases “You should be happy. You’re not fat. The media have distorted body image”. Before I go any further I want to say that I always believe that a person should strive for the body that they want if they are not happy just make sure to lose weight in the correct way, which is through healthy diet and routine exercise. “Hey, if you want that Victoria Secret body, then go for it”. But you have to know that you have to eat healthy and exercise not skipping meals. I’ve seen people who weighs 400 lbs. or so, still holding fried chicken next to their mouth. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY!!!  They are on the verge of dying from diabetes. There’s a difference in telling someone, who weighs 150 lbs., to lose weight and telling someone, who weighs 400 lbs., to lose weight. The latter is not consider as fat shaming; that person will definitely die if they don’t change. Their lives are at risk. The Government produced the BMI for general public to understand the average weight based on height and age. Unless you have a medical condition, you should not be weighting 500 lbs.

Evolution of Horror

I would say that I am very familiar with the Horror genre after years and years of watching Horror movies. I've notice that techniques that directors use. The father of Horror, Alfred Hitchcock produced the famous Psycho that shocked all audience during the 60s. He killed off the main character Marion. In cinematography, Hitchcock uses cut and editing to direct the audience to what he want that audience to look at. He also utilizes shadows of black and white films. Now many contemporary directors like to use the frame of screen to produce an effect scare. They would do a close up of the actor’s face only to reveal the monster or the ghost. I can guarantee that 8 out of 10 movies have scenes where the camera is close up to the girl’s face while she slowly turns around in a haunted ally. Sound play a crucial role, too. The dramatic and loud sounds that accompany the appearance of the monster successfully allow the audience to feel the tension that the actors convey. In one of the scene of James Wan’s SAW, a girl is seen with a contraption in her face. The camera soon made 360 turns with several jump cut of different angles around the girl as she struggle to get out meanwhile music loud music plays. This shot made the audience more tensed without spending much money. In a more recent movie Insidious, again directed by James Wan, he use cut and editing in a different way. EH would do a medium shot of the ghost and cut to the same shot but with a sinister face of ghost. It’s subtle and last only for a second or two but nevertheless it affectively scared the audience. There are many ways to use the basics of cinematography to change the feeling that affect the audience. From the cut and editing that Hitchcock uses and the cut and editing that Wan uses produce very different effects to audience.

Giving Headlines

1. Giving Headlines have a more traditional  and yet different type of design. The play utilize the role of the audience to their storytelling. The idea behind Giving Headlines is a news report. The audience is watching satire of news reports. It talks about many of the contemporary social problems and pokes fun of it, giving a lighthearted and comedic atmosphere. This makes it more similar to the play Turns. In contrast to Fragments which is very tense and deals with darker themes. At one point in Giving Headlines broke the 4th wall. The characters in the play asked some of the audience to sign a form. The structure of the play is quite simple. The whole stage have a desk and Katherine Gorham, who's dressed in formal attire, sat behind the desk. The arrangement and costume convey to the audience that we are watching a report. The audience also get to witness the behind the scenes of the "news report" and watch the employees interact with each other. There is a transition of scene, in every change of reports we see that the character brings and takes the props along with them. The only character that remains consistently is Katherine, who plays as the anchor. Of the two plays I saw, Turns & Fragments and Giving Headlines. I prefer Turns & Fragments because it is very unique. I have never experience to be part of the play as an audience. Watching the play was an emotional roller coaster. I went from laughing and having fun a subway to scared and distressed in a dark room, which represented someone's minds. It also make me think how the public underestimated mental disorders. Most people only sympathize with people who are experiencing inner turmoil, yet the play allows the audience to give a different perspective of how it's like to live the disorder socially and mentally.

Turns & Fragments

1. There were two parts to the performance. The first performance, Turns, begins with a old women entering a subway. She greets the people around her and starts to make conversations. She talks about the shoes brand Nike because many majority of the audience is wearing Nike. In the middle, a guy holding a guitar enters and starts playing music. The old lady become energized and starts dancing with some of the audiences. As she starts to become fatigued, the music also became softer and slower. She tells audience all the years she spent taking the train and different types of people she observed. The play ended when got off the train. The second part, Fragments, begins with a man reading off a paper titled "Screen Test for Dissociative Identity Disorder. Soon another actor, played by Tiar Jamoor, starts talking. She describe the voices in her head. She went from talking to yelling. Then we see that she acknowledge and becomes the voices for couple of seconds. All the lights in the room were turn off and performers wore white mask and holding cell phones to their faces. We heard noises of several different people talking in the background while the performers walk around.

2. Both Turns & Fragments have a completely different storytelling style than the play As You Like It. The relationship between the audience and the performers are 2 dimensional and separate. Like most plays, As You Like It have an imaginary wall in between the audience and world of the play. Occasionally, a character talks directly to the audience, breaking the 4th wall. While in Turns & Fragments the audience and the performers are interactive. It was almost as if there is no imaginary wall between the audience and the world of the play. The audience takes on a character in the play. In Turns, the audience is the people of the subway. The old lady walks and dances amongst the audience and talks directly to the audience, asking "How are you today?" In Fragments, the audience became more subjective. The first half, the audience watch how a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder behave. The second half, we journey into the mind of that person. Feeling what she is feeling. And the performers guided the audience on the journey.

3. The theme for Turns is everyone have their own unique story and observing someone can allow you to understand their story. Play arrange the seats for the audience into that of a subway seats. At first everyone was confused because the spacing of the seat are so small and different. Instead of facing a particular area, the audience faces each other. But when the play begin, sounds cleared up the confusion. We heard the metal track, the wind, and the announcements of the stops. These familiar combinations allow the audience to understand that we are in a subway. Tiar Jamoor play as the old lady. She is dressed with a green shawl over her head and a small bag. When she's energized and dancing, she takes the shawl off. The act of taking the shawl off accompanying the music convey to the audience that she is ready to dance. The important part is the ending because the she explicitly tells audience her thoughts and therefore connecting the theme to entire play. The theme in Fragments is someone with a mental problem is not only a burden to that person's lives but also cause a frightening mind of chaos. The audience walks into a dark room illuminated by several red lights. the seats are also arranged in a way the all seats are scattered and facing in different directions.This set design make the play uncomfortable and unpredictable. On each of the seats is a survey titled "Screening Test for Dissociative Identity Disorder". I glance round and saw some people have their pens out, ready to answer the survey. I was also about to write something but a person stood up and began to read off the paper. The play took off and I realize that the set up allows the performer to utilize the audience individually because we are all separated. The actress effectively convey to the audience her unstable mentality with sudden burst of shouts and drastic change of character. She went from frightened to depressed to flirty to aggressive. When the whole room when pitch black with only the performers with mask illuminated and sounds of voices, the audience understands that we are in her mind and we heard all the voices that she hears. Both plays effectively made the audience feel the tension and atmosphere of the play through lights, sounds, and seating.

Professor and Students

I am currently a sophomore in College. I notice something very particular. I remember I took a Physiology course ( BIO 203). This class is by far the most demanding class I've ever taken in my entire education career, at least for now. The class section I was in is a hybrid, which means I only have lecture once a week. We have watch two recorded lectures on Blackboard before every lecture. Everytime we meet with the Professor, we would only review the materials from the recordings. Therefore we,students, are self-taught. The slides from the PowerPoint in the recorded lecture are not posted on Blackboard nor are the the slides from each meeting with the professor. Essentially everything depends on the students. To make matters worst, the exams are backwards. There are only one direction for all the exams and that is "Choose the INCORRECT answer". Beside this tedious workload, I've notice that students are very quite in lectures but are also very afraid of the Professor. We had three Professors teaching this course and one of them, Professor Cabot cause tremendous fear. The other two Professors are more acceptable compared to Professor Cabot. If you're reading this, Professor Cabot, I don't mean to single you out but you did made me cry a lot and I don't want to confuse my audience. I wondered what cause this phenomena, this fear? All the materials that each Professor taught are new and unfamiliar to us and, therefore, logically speaking we should be acceptable to all three Professors or fear all three Professor equally. Yet, Cabot gives me this feeling that he would yell at me if I breath too loud. I'm probably exaggerating but point is I was scared of him. So I came up with this theory is how a Professor conduct him or herself can affect how students view the Professor. Professor Cabot is very intelligent, experienced, and confident. All these qualities make students acknowledge his power over us. Thereby, without telling us to be quiet, we would automatically refuse to talk in class. Before others acknowledge you, you have to acknowledge yourself. Professor Cabot knew he's very intelligent, experience, and familiar with Physiology and therefore all translates to confidence. Remember: confidence is key.

Fractured Feminism

Yesterday night I was researching on the 2016 elections, particularly the Democratic party. We all know that the two major forces in the Democratic party are Clinton and Sanders. Frankly, I was researching on why don't some women vote for Clinton. What I found was a lot more in depth than just gender. Major difference lies in age. Perhaps you've realized this, but the 2016 election proved to be more than just running for presidency. It have struck feminism: the millennials vs. seniors. Many people who support Sanders are in the ages between 36 to 18 (give or take); while Clinton's support are ages 40 and up. This meaning more college women would choose Sanders over Clinton. The first thing that comes to minds is political views. Many young adult believe that Sanders's campaign is really beneficial. Why? Sanders promised to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour and promised free college education in public schools. These two are very important for many students that are fighting in poverty. Women who stands behind Clinton actively condemns the women who stands for Sanders. "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women" and claims about young women support Sanders because women just want to meet guys. I, a 20 years old woman, find these remarks very insulting and vulgar. Other women around the same age group as me also find this very insulting. The fact that we should vote for a person just because that person happens to be the same sex as me is sexist. Just in case you're wondering, I don't support neither Clinton nor Sanders, and definitely don't support the Republican candidates. I researched that many of the older women vote for Clinton, not only because she is a woman, but also many people want to see the first female president before they die. They also argue that we, younger women, take granted of the many privileges that older women, like Clinton, have fought for. Now, due to this election, there is a split between the perspectives of young and old women. Remember, I am merely a person who's presenting an issue. I am not trying to influence or sway your vote.

As You Like It

In the start of the play, we are present with two brothers of late Sir Rowland. The older of the two brother, Oliver, does not allow Orlando, the younger brother, to receive a proper education. Rosalind, daughter of Duke Senior, is best friends with Celia, daughter of Duke Frederick. Rosalind and Celia both left to the Forest disguised. It is revealed that the two Dukes had a conflict. Duke Frederick won the conflict and accused Rosalind of treason. Orlando lost a wrestle match with Charles and Rosalind fell in love with Orlando during the match. Adam, Orlando's old servant, told Orlando the evil scheme that Oliver conjured. Orlando and Adam both left to the Forest also. In the Forest, the disguised Rosalind meet with Orlando, who expressed his passionate love to the disguised Rosalind. The disguised Rosalind told Orlando to pretend that "he" (Rosalind) as Rosalind. The disguised Rosalind also ran into Silvius, who's is in love with Phebe, and Phebe, who doesn't love Silvius and eventually fall in love with the disguised Rosalind. One day Rosalind run into Oliver, whom informs Rosalind that Orlando is badly wounded by a lion that was trying to harm Oliver. In the end Rosalind revealed her true identity and everyone get to be happily married.

Rosalind is the daughter of the Duke Senior and is cousins with her best friend, Celia. She is smart and loving. These qualities made Rosalind in the heroine of the play. Orlando is the youngest son Sir Rowland. Although Orlando and Oliver have conflicts but Orlando have forgiven Oliver and even saved him from a lion.  Both Orlando and Rosalind love each other very much. In the beginning, both of them wear very similar clothing style, which is black jacket and dark color clothing. This dark color represent the connection to the society that they originated. Rosalind later, in the Forest, changed her outfit in to a brighter color, while Orlando remain to wear dark and neutral color clothing. This difference in color conveys to the audience that Rosalind is in disguise. Also the difference in the color between Rosalind and Orlando is that Rosalind have completely disconnected with the old society while Orlando is still connected. This color coding have been consistent throughout the play and the characters. Duke Senior and Duke Frederick are brothers. But Duke Frederick decided to rebel against Duke Senior. Duke Senior and Duke Frederick is played by the same actor, yet the costume shows the chance of characters. Duke Senior wear clothing with vivid colors. While Duke Frederick wear very black and dark colored clothing. Every characters are differentiated by the colors. Take the characters, Silvius and Phebe as an example. They were only seen wearing vivid colored clothing throughout the play. Since the setting changed from kingdom to the Forest, almost all the characters wore bright colored clothing. Therefore, through the use of colors, the audience can assume that Silvius and Phebe are not part of the kingdom. Patterns in the characters clothing play an important function as well. Rosalind's disguise is very neat and crisp. While Celia disguise consisted of a frilly shirt with consistent patterns. The difference in style of clothing reflects the characteristics of the characters. Rosalind is resolved and autonomous, taking matters into her own hands. Celia leads her life by passion. She risks everything when she decided to run away with Rosalind. Compared to Celia, Rosalind is more clear headed. Coats also show to the audience of character development in the play. Oliver is an example. In the beginning, he is shown wearing a very big dark coat and is depicted to be very bad person. Likewise, Duke Frederick is also seen to be wearing a very big and dark coat and thereby conveyed to the audience his ill deeds. But over the course of the play, we see that Oliver lose the coat and have changed into a loving and caring person.

The set of the play is in modern times. The characters utilizes social media to express their thoughts and emotions. Rosalind and Oliver are two of many other character that can be seen to post things on Twitter, which is only popular about 5 years ago. The lighting play an important role in telling the setting of the play. During the beginning, when the play starts off in the kingdom, the light is very sharp. The character’s shadows is be easily differentiated between the person’s body. This provide high tension for the play. Once the plot have shifted into the forest, the light produced a softer and yellow effects. This is to imitate the feeling of sunlight. One thing that explicitly shows the audience the change from the kingdom to the forest is shadows. On the left side, the board produced a clear shadow of a tree. The bright colored board contrast and highlight the shadow of the trees, allowing a more visible shadow. The two boards have an important function. The designers used the board help tell the story. During the wresting match between Charles and Orlando, a representation of the match is projected on to the board rather than having the character physically fight in front of the audience. The board also project the contents in the phone so that the audience can read the Tweets rather having the characters just read to the audience. This creates a closer relationship between the audience and the characters. Finally, the boards provide a spatial relation for the audience to visual and thereby the set became dimensional. The play use sounds, specifically songs to transition between acts. In total, four songs were performed by the actors. At the end of each song, a different character development occur, pushing the plot further.

Movie Reviews

The other day I was watching the movie Unfriended. The way how the filmmakers structured the movie was interesting. The entire movie is just a laptop screen of a highschool girl. Financially wise, I see how this movie saved a lot. It's very similar to those found-footage films. Horror wise, it didn't do much for me.The movie pushes the boundaries of social life and question society's view on bullying. We always condemn bullying but in doing so, we sort of became bullies ourselves. In the movie a girl, Laura, kills herself because several embarrassing video was uploaded on YouTube. We later found out that her death was cause by many other classmates. Immediately we see that user from social media blamed and bullied one of the classmates. Despite the bad horror, this movie puts the audience into a self-reflective state where we question our modern life.
After watching the movie, I was on IMDb looking at reviews for this movie. Some people thought that this is movie was very creative and gave it high rating. I on the other hand don't think that the movie was that creative, although I do think that the movie have many themes and meanings. This movie can be put as found footage. The only thing that the movie did was to reinvent something that was once very popular. The Blair - Witch Project is what I would consider as creative, since (if I'm not mistaken) it is the first to invent the genre found footage horror films. Some reviewer praise it's horror aspect and acclaimed its level of gore. Both of which is very overrated in my opinion. When it comes to horror, I've seen better like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974. Movie like Saw 2004 definitely beat this movie. Movie reviews are very subjective to the individual. If you are not familiar with the horror genre, then any crappy horror movie you watch would be scary to you then compared to a person who've watch horror for years now. I just want to say, sometimes movie reviews are not accurate. Take the movie Citizen Kane for instance. It is now regarded as the movie well made movie of all times in the history of cinema. Back then, when it was first release, many critics gave the mvie bad reviews and claiming the Orson Welles was an ameture. We know now that these reviews are entirely wrong.

First Audition

I'm a Theatre Major, focusing on acting. I've already planned all my acting courses for the fall and spring semester, but prior to that I've never taken any acting classes. So I decided to auditions for two productions in my school despite having no experience or acting technique. Not surprisingly, I bombed both auditions, but I'm giving myself a gold star for trying.
The first audition is for the play, Picture of Dorian Gray. For this audition, I don't need to recite any monologue or bring any materials. I got to the audition place and filled out a form. In the form they asked for previous experience and so on and so forth. I glance over at another student's form and I saw that he filled out the whole entire chart under the experience category. At this point, I'm like "Oh crap..." I felt my confidence slowly slipping out of my grasp. After I filled out the form, I grabbed one of the three monologues that they've provided for us. I sat on the floor and start to quietly rehearse to myself. About 30 mins have pasted and they've started to call people in. The walls aren't sound proof so we can hear everyone's auditions. The first girl that went in was great. It was great. Remember the guy, who filled out the entire chart under experience, well he went immediately before me. Oh Lord... If the first girl is great, then he is phenomenal. He just nailed that British accent. He have that powerful voice. He really brought out the setting in the play. When he came out. He said "Oh I'm sorry. Did you guys hear everything?" His friends replied "Yeah, you are great" to which he responded "Yeah. I learn from someone to use my voice as a weapon". I repeat HE SAID "TO USE MY VOICE AS A WEAPON". I thought to myself: if you keeping talking with that arrogant attitude. I going to use my fists as a weapon. I am not going to lie. I do feel jealous and insecure at this point. But that doesn't make him any less of a bastard then he already is. During my actual auditions. I was really bad. I have no accent. My voice was weak and mundane. Worst of all, I stuttered. Terrible, Just terrible. I was so anxious and nervous that I forgot about everything. My mind was blank. Afterwards, I rushed out of the building and never turned around to look at the other auditionees. To damn embarrassed. Overall, I think it was a good experience. Now I know what type of people I am competing and up against. I have my work cut out for me...

BlackBird

Last Friday was my Birthday and my friend treated me to a Broadway Play, BlackBird. My play analysis Professor saw it already and said the play and actors, Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, were amazing. After hearing what he said, I was so excited. In fact, I was the one who requested to watch BlackBird out of the list of plays. My friend and I had Bearburgers for dinner. We rushed to the theatre just in time to squeak in a bathroom break. I don't know why, but that night my body decided to have digestive issues. So while during the play, my stomach was growling and making all these noises. Plays are a lot different than movies. The acoustic in the theatre is really well designed. Therefore audience have to be really quite. Even a cough can echo throughout the room. If you're one of the people who I've disrupted during the play, I am so sorry to ruin your experience. It was the most tiring 90 minutes of my life. Not only do I have to focus and concentrate on the play, but also constantly worry about my stupid stomach. But it was worth it, the play, like my Professor said, is really amazing. Don' worry. I will not spoil anything in the play just in case anyone who's reading this decided to go watch it. Jeff Daniels is such a phenomenal actor. I didn't think that he could play such a serious character, because I always thought of him as idiot from Dumb and Dumber. I am wrong. He was able to bring out the feelings, emotions and thoughts of the character through his actions, the way he talked, his rhythm. On the other hang, I think that Michelle overacted a little bit. Compare to Jeff, I felt that she wasn't quite on par with him. Nevertheless, she was still really good. I want to specify that all these comments are purely my opinion. I am not a critic. I do not hope that this will affect the way you view the play. Some people disagree with me about Michelle and I respect that. I am not trying to impose anything. I am writing this to simply share an experience. I hope you can watch the play and formulate your own opinion.

Introfield

My professor asked us to invent something in a program called, Sketchup. Without further ado, here is the invention. This invention is called the Introfield (working title). It is a pin that the user can clip onto their clothes. The pin forms a electro-shield around the user. The user can put it on during bad weather. Rain and snow is impenetrable to the shield, as these are solids and liquids. Therefore keeping the user dry and clean. The user would need to utilize 4 pins in order to cover the entire surface area of the body. Two pins goes on each shoulders. This will cover the torso. Two pins goes on edges of the pants or shirt to cover the legs. Once the pins are put in place. The shield will engulf the user’s body automatically. Gas particle, such as air, can still diffuse through the shield to keep the user breathing. Further changes could be applied to protect the user from harmful gas particles, like carbon monoxide. Or filter gas particle allowing only oxygen to diffuse through and leaving only harmful substance outside. The panel of the pin show the battery percentage. The darker the panel changes, the lower the battery. The blue color in the picture is a sample. The color could be changed to accommodate with user's preference. Beneath the colored panels is a layer of solar panel to charge the pin.

Freytag's Pyramid of The Zoo Story

Edward Albee wrote the play, The Zoo Story, in the structure of Gustave Freytag’s pyramid. Even though the actors don’t move around much and majority of play is conversations between Jerry and Peter, The Zoo Story utilizes the pyramid to tell the events in the play.
The pyramid starts off with exposition of the play. It is also here that stasis of the play is introduced to the reader. The beginning of The Zoo Story starts off with Jerry talking to Peter and thereby disrupting Peter’s routine Sunday reading. If Jerry had not went up to Peter, Peter would still have continue to his reading like he normally would every day. Therefore, the stasis of this play is not shown to the reader. Instead the readers would have to assume that Peter does goes to the bench every Sunday to read. Or perhaps, in more general sense, it’s safe to assume that the stasis would be how Peter or Jerry go about their days. We could imagine that Peter would still be an ordinary civilian and Jerry would still be in the pursuit of his suicide or still be trying to find a way to go around his landlady’s dog.
The intrusion of the play breaks the balance of the stasis and leads the play into rising action of the pyramid. The intrusion of The Zoo Story is when Jerry talks to Peter. In other words, Albee started this play off with an intrusion. It is arguable that this particular moment should also be categorize as the stasis of the play. Albee written this in a way that is interpretable to the readers. But that idea is incorrect and Albee confusingly deluded his readers. In “Backwards and Forwards” by David Ball, it is stated in page 31 “A character talks to maneuver another character or characters in such a way that the obstacle to the want is removed.” Jerry wants to die, but the obstacle that hinders his death is his murderer or how Jerry chooses to die. Jerry could have tried to kill himself prior to the beginning of the play. Yet, at this particular instance, when Jerry meet with Peter, Peter have already been chosen to become the murder. It is evident that Jerry talks to Peter for the remaining of the play because Jerry wanted something from Peter, which is for Peter to murder Jerry. Peter becomes Jerry’s murder because that’s what Jerry planned. Referring back to Ball, “Stasis comes about at the close of the play when major forces of the play either get what they want or are forced to stop trying.” Jerry got what he wanted, which is someone to murder him, and that someone is Peter at the start of the play. Therefore, the moment when Jerry talks to Peter is the point of intrusion and not part of the stasis.
The rising action of the play is from the beginning to the moment when Peter and Jerry physically fight, which is in page 25 after Jerry said “So be it!” Near the tip of the climax but also part of the rising action is the complication. The instant when Peter gets annoyed with Jerry’s punches, the tone of the play very rapidly turns into aggressive and serious. It is the change of Peter’s attitude that Jerry was able to taunt him and to manipulate Peter. Up until this moment, Peter have been very passive and tolerant of Jerry. Peter listens to everything that Jerry says and absorbs all the information. It is this crucial moment that fires the play into its climax. Peter said “I can’t move over any more, and stop hitting me. What’s the matter with you?” This is the first time in the play that Peter begins to question and rebel against Jerry. It could be considered that this is the turning point within the rising action.
The climax of the play is the fight between Peter and Jerry, resulting in Peter stabbing Jerry, which is in the narration of page 25. This is also the peripeteia of both the characters. Peter will forever live with the guilt of killing someone and Jerry finally got his desired suicide. The falling action is the last conversation between Peter and Jerry. While the denouement is the very last breath of Jerry. Albee specifically informs the reader that Jerry is dead. Therefore it ties the loose ends of the characters. Peter flee from the scene and Jerry laying lifeless on the bench.