Moral Decisions In Stephen Sondheim And James Lapine's Into The Woods

The Play Inherit the Wind is filled with individuality and opinions. These opinions and ideas show the importance of being your own person and that is the main purpose of the play. The play sends the message of individuality many times and it truly makes an impression on readers. These ideas are portrayed through the characters by the unique things, ideas, views and quirks of all the characters throughout the trial and the play as a whole.

Little red was a respectful girl because she did everything that she was told. The only bad thing was that she got sidetrack and talks to a strange wolf on the way to her grandma’s house.

In both play and novel, the authors use the characters, environment, and

Red takes action, goes against the social fairy tale norms. There are no huntsmen in the movie, rather instead, she takes in protection and attacks the wolf herself, starting off with mace. The little girl is portrayed to be aggressive than passive, sassy, has an attitude, and is a brat. Other than being passive, Red is considered to be smart. She is aware of the conflicts surrounding her and not to trust strangers, especially the big bad wolf that is following her. Alike being her grandmother, Red too is an adventurous female. For Red seeks for an adventure in her life, wanting to live outside of the woods and explore the world away from the safe path. During Hoodwink, Red shows a daring unlike what Grimm and other fairy tales have shown. Red goes on adventure before entering into Granny’s house by taking various activities a like skydiving. Hence, throughout history to modern day, contemporary tales of Little Red Cap has adapted from its traditional to anti-traditional role in women. Modern fairy tales involves female characters to take a hold of action instead of waiting for a male

Into the woods was an adventurous play that was perfect for the use of your imagination and spirit. Into the Woods had numerous different fairy tales involved which could make a small child feel like he/she was in heaven. The acting, music, concept, stage design, costumes, and even the language of the play all mixed to perfection. The crowd became involved right away with the irony of the play. I liked how Into the Woods was set up in the beginning because it made the play easier to follow. However, the play seemed to be a little lengthy and some of the characters became annoying. I do not believe the second part of the play altogether was necessary. Into the Woods did not fulfill my expectations to the max,

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

Into the Woods is a Broadway Musical that was first introduced to the public 1987. The storyline was written by James Lapine and the songs were produced by Stephen Sondheim. Lapine had many different intentions in writing this musical, most importantly, he was trying to portray how dangerous the world can truly be, “Though it's fearful, though it's deep, though it's dark and though you may lose the path, though you may encounter wolves, you can't just act, you have to listen. You can't just act, you have to think.” Throughout the play, there is the question of whether the cost of revenge will outweigh the benefit of the good, which was extremely relevant when Jack wanted to kill the Prince’s assistant because he killed his mother, “Then he

Each character in the play shows their loyalty, whether it be to another character, to power, or to some other concept, in their

After extensive philosophical examination of the play Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, suggests that the most compelling key points to analyze are the ethical problems that occur throughout the play. As a matter of fact, to create a better understanding of the play on the ethical context and the text itself, the New Criticism and Issues of Evaluation approach is necessary. In particular, a remarkable ethical problem that must be considered are the decisions taken by the Baker and his wife, and the Witch throughout the play, decisions that play a very important role throughout the play and the field of ethics. In fact, philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and David Hume– philosophers that extensibly contributed with ethical views regarding respect and dignity– may agree or disagree with the ethical decisions taken by the characters on specific instances. In fact, Kant and Hume have developed a set of views that determine what is right and wrong; very useful to decide whether or not the Baker’s decisions are ethically correct in the aspect of respect and dignity.

Performed at the Regent’s Park Theatre in London, Into the Woods, book by James Lapine, was a play directed by Timothy Sheader. Its music was composed by Stephen Sondheim. It is a play that merges a number of fairytales and demonstrates the moral that all actions have consequences. The actors in Into the Woods have manipulated movement to convey role highly effectively.

Later on, we are introduced to the wolf, who represents men as a threat to women. The wolf symbolizes a man, who can be a lover, seducer or sexual predator. When Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf, he wants to eat her but is too afraid to do so in public, for sometimes there are woodcutters watching. He instead approaches the young girl with the intention of seducing her, and she “naively” tells him exactly where she’s going. He then suggests for her to pick some flowers, which she of course does. Not only does she stop to talk to the wolf, but she completely forgets about her sick grandmother as well as her promise to her mother, in order to satisfy her own desires. “Little Red Cap had run after flowers, and did not continue on her way to grandmother's until she had gathered all that she could carry” ( ). Little Red Riding Hood clearly demonstrates the behaviour of an Id driven personality. She is bound up

Throughout the play there are many themes leading up to and causing the chief event.

The musical Into the Woods alludes to concepts of choices and the related aftermath of consequences. For many characters throughout, the woods and the beanstalk particularly became a means for them to deflect their decisions and to instead place the blame of their actions on the environment. This use of the environment could be seen from the following moments in the play: Jack’s escapades with the giants, the Baker’s wife’s affair with the prince, the princes’ search for new women, the community’s decision to throw the narrator to his death and then the killing of the giantess. In these moments, each character used the environment as justification and refused to accept responsibility for what they actually had control over all along. As soon as Jack’s magical beans grew into a stalk, Jack took advantage of the opportunity and climbed up into the sky, only to find some giants who treated him as their own, giving him food, rest and love (“Giants in the Sky”); however, instead of appreciating their care, Jack used the beanstalk as a means to steal from them,

Each one intensified an underlying mechanism within the play. For instance, Lainie weaves a tale regarding warblers and cuckoo babies to be an analogy for hope. She tells that because cuckoos dont build nests, they infiltrate a warblers nest and plant their egg there so it can be hatched. Once hatched, due to natural selection as puts it, whenever a baby warbler touches the indented back of the cuckoo, thee cuckoo shoves them out of the nest. Then the parents come back and feed it until it is old enough to leave the nest. “The indentation in the cuckoo’s back-that is the face of God; that is the chance of hope in the world”(p. 24). In my opinion, I think that this adds a new level of complexity to the play. To put it another way, it allows one to view a seemingly abstract thing with a different

In this story the wolf took advantage of the little girl's kindness, obliviousness, and innocence by getting information on where she was going, and using it to his advantage. Although the wolf used information that wasn’t pertained to him, Little Red Riding Hood’s innocent qualities led her to disregard the possibility of the wolf having evil plans for her and her grandmother. Her guiltless qualities led her to proffer too much information to the wolf, and perceived her and her grandmother as vulnerable to the wolf. Not knowing the evil that is out there, she trusted the wolf and told him exactly where she was going and who she was going to see. Since the wolf was aware of where the grandmother lived, she consumed Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother and then followed by attempting to eat her (Perrault, Charles, and Grimm Jacob).