Arcadia+notes

Final Discussions- **Parallel Characters** Enlightenment vs. Romanticism

|| **Present ** || **Link** || ||  Hannah || Protagonist ||  ||   Bernard || Buffoon/Antagonist || || Chloe || sexual free agent || || ||  Bernard / Val/Hannah (Gus?) ||  love triangle  || ||
 * **1809 **
 * Septimus
 * Mr. Chater  ( Noakes ?)
 * The Chater
 * Thomasina   ||  Chloe   ||  ingénue
 * Septimus / Byron / Lady C
 * Septimus / Thomasina  ||  Hannah /Gus || “true love?”

What does the plot convolution suggest/mean in the context of Enlightenment order vs. Romantic mystery? What does Septimus’ tragic ending “mean” suggest as his stated role as symbol for the decline of thought into feeling/Enlightenment into Romanticism? What about the “Coverly set”? p. 73- Chloe’s attraction that Newton left out, “The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it’s trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren’t supposed to be part of the plan.” Karl Popper’s theory- “(Science) can’t prove to be true, it can only not prove to be false yet.” If each period and culture is largely searching for the answer to the question- What is true? Then what answer does Stoppard’s allusion to Popper suggest? “It’s wanting to know that makes us matter” p. 75
 * Final Questions/Notes- **