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Oh what a lovely war

Oh what a lovely war is a very comical play showing World War 1 in a satirical context which is the exact opposite of Dulce et decorum which is very realistic and shows the real horror of world war 1.both of these ways of portraying a play have their advantages and their disadvantages. Oh what a lovely war is played so that people will remember the war in a fond way and not of its real horror. This both have good and bad sides; the good side is that the war will not be as heavy on the minds of the people that have just watched the play. But the bad side of this way of acting is that the war would be remembered not as it actually was and the people that died in this war would not be appreciated as much as they should. This is the exact opposite of realism which does show the real horror of the war in dulce et decorum. This also has its good and bad sides. The good side is that people would actually know what happened in the war and what the soldiers had to go through. But again the bad side is that it would not be suitable for some audience’s i.e. small children. Both ways of portraying war do have their advantages and disadvantages to certain audiences. As long as they’re both shown in moderation the war and many other events will be remembered correctly. For this play we used a completely different way of portraying the war by showing it in realism. This shows what actually happens in a scene in real life. For the war we used the same drama elements that we used for oh what a lively war but used them to portray the war in a realistic sense. We used movement to portray how tired the soldiers are after marching for miles and putting certain acts in slow motion to show climax and how the soldiers cant cope with the action. We also used some drama mediums by not making any noise when a soldier was dying to clearly mark to the audience that this was a point of climax. Music and sound was a big part of this piece because the hall echoed and doubled the effect of it, we used this and put a backing track dimly in the background while we read the poem and done the actions. All of these techniques again made the play better to watch.

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Drama mediums, elements and explorative strategies helped to enhance the dramatic meaning of the poem by putting more emphasize into the play and making all of the audiences senses active and stimulating there brain to think about what is happening around them and over stimulating them to make them blown away by the act. The three types of drama that we have been studying this term are very different and put across different massages for the same type of event. Satirical shows the funny and comical side of things while making a point in-between the lines, realism shows the actual ...

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