Tis a Pity She's a Whore by John's Ford

Tis Pity She's a Whore Genre: What is the Genre of the Play? How did it exhibit the characteristics of a tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, or melodrama? Tis Pity She's a Whore is an example of a tragedy play. It is clear that it is a tragedy because the two main characters Giovanni and Anabella have an incestuous sexual relationship which results in their deaths as well as the deaths of many others.

Plot: How did the plot work? Where in the play did the exposition occur? Where was the climax? Where was the crisis? What instances of foreshadowing, discovery, and reversal are present? Was the plot a significant part of the play? Why? The plot of the play is that two people, a brother and sister fall in love and have a sexual relationship. She is forced to marry because she is pregnant which is the crisis because she cannot marry her brother and must wed before the pregnancy is apparent.

Foreshadowing is present in the character of Hippolita who vows to murder Soranzo with her accomplice Vasques. From their discussion, the reader learns that Soranzo is a man who will do desperate things to quench his sexual appetites. Also when she dies, she curses the couple who of course will later meet horrid ends. The accidental death of Bergetto also shows the importance that discovery, reversal (after it is learned that Richardetto is alive) and impulse will have later on.

The play is very plot-heavy and the plot is a significant part of the play because it is events rather than character which drives the action. 3. Protagonist: Who was the protagonist? How did his or her actions and decisions move the plot? Was the protagonist active or passive? The protagonist is Giovanni. By telling his sister of his love, he set into action all the later events of the story.

Had he kept silent, Annabella would not have returned his declarations of love and they would not have slept together and gotten pregnant. He was passive in that he allowed the marriage ceremony to take place but active in that he sought out Annabella and then went to her husband's house after knowing that Soranzo wanted him dead. 4. Character: How did the playwright draw the characters? Were they three-dimensional? If so, did you find any of them identifiable with your own life and feelings? The characters are not three-dimensional.

They are cardboard beings who are controlled by baser instincts such as love and lust without thinking through their actions. The characters need to tell others of their emotions because they are not visible to the viewer. No one in the real world is as uncomplicated as these people who think only of satisfaction of desires and the need for revenge. 5.

Thought: What themes did the play pursue? In what ways did the playwright or production make you aware of the point-of-view being presented? The play pursues themes of incest, of lust, and of the desire for vengeance and revenge. In the story, everyone is consumed by desire, either sexual desire for a man or woman or for a desire to meet out revenge to someone who has defrauded them through the first form of desire. Hippolita wants revenge against the man who supposedly killed her husband but is.