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CHAPTER EIGHT

CONCLUSION: SUMMARY OF HOW

TO PRESENT A FULL ANALYSIS

INITIAL DECISIONS : Before even lifting his pen or taking the typewriter out of its case, in
deference to modernity the student should make several initial decisions. The first is the
length of the analysis: how long is the paper going to be? The second develops out of the
answer to the first: how many aspects of analysis will I have time to include? Another basic
decision has to do with emphasis. In any given analysis of a play a writer will necessarily
have to emphasize some aspects of analysis more than others. Once the writer has decided
how many aspects he will include, he then needs to arrange them in a particular order
designed to reflect his intended emphasis.

ESTABLISHING THE COMPONENTS OF YOUR ANALYSIS : For example, the student

may design his essay to correspond to the following paragraph topics:

1. Definition of the world of the play.

2. Explanation of the importance of the major characters.

3. Explanation of the significance of the action of these characters.

4. The ways in which these actions are interwoven.

5. How this process of interweaving allows for the gradual development of the major theme of
the play.
6. Further interpretation of this theme.

7. Conclusion relating the characters to the theme in a summary statement; final evaluation of
the effectiveness with which the playwright has connected characters to theme.

OTHER ARRANGEMENTS OF COMPONENTS : In writing an analysis of a play we must

consider the various ways of ordering our aspects of analysis. After selecting the aspects
which we will cover (as determined by our allotted length, objectives, etc.), we must consider
possible ways of ordering these aspects.

THE BASIC PATTERN OF ANALYSIS : 1. An introduction to the paper explaining that this
is to be a full analysis of all aspects of the play. Perhaps hint here at the conclusions you will
reach.

2. Definition of the world of the play —its location, atmosphere, emotional framework, etc.

3. Explanation of the structure of the play. How is the play logically divided into parts? How
are these parts connected?

4. Discussion of the characters (amount of time you spend on each character should
correspond to that character’s importance).

5. The language and rhetoric of the play; then discussion of figurative language, in particular,
any use of irony, reversals, etc.

6. Interpretations of the play, emphasis on your own view of the play, even if it is largely
similar to that of another critic.

7. Evaluation and criticism; this forms, in effect, the conclusion to your paper and should
stand not as an isolated component but rather as the crowning section of your paper, to some
extent dependent upon, and to some extent a summary of everything else in your paper.