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Arcadia:
Arcadia: "the perfect marriage of idea and high comedy?" Throughout Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, intellectual ideas and themes are explored. Set in two contrasting timeframes, it shows history in the making and history in the discovering - both by groups of mostly highly enlightened individuals. However, mixed in with humour and irony, the play is made lighter, more enjoyable and more accessible to the average audience. Scene seven is the central point of the play. Seemingly
may take this to mean the time, but it might be that she is going to die soon or more subtly a referral to entropy and the end of the universe that Thomasina has been predicting with her equations. Stoppard is making a statement in this play: that history may not always be right, but that is not important if it teaches people something. Maybe a Romantic view of life with a hint of Reason?
