5/9/2023 0 Comments We are villains book![]() How do these themes manifest themselves offstage? To what degree is life imitating art? Do you, like Oliver, "blame Shakespeare" for what happens in the story, or is he simply using Shakespeare as a scapegoat?ģ. Shakespeare's works - and especially the tragedies - are saturated with love, loss, jealousy, betrayal, and violence. Throughout the story the fourth-years perform four of Shakespeare's plays and quote the other plays and poems in their everyday conversation. Having finished the story, which of the "wicked" things do you think were necessary or inevitable? Which were not? What, in the last ten years, might have caused Oliver to change his mind?Ģ. and now I wonder: Could I explain it all to Colborne?" (page 5). Looking back, years later, I'm not so sure they were. In the very first scene, Oliver says, "We did wicked things, but they were necessary, too - or so it seemed. ![]()
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