Arcadia: Act 1 Scene 3-4
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- Created on: 09-04-15 12:51
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- Arcadia: Act 1
- Scene 3
- Characters: Septimus Thomasina Jellaby Captain Brice Chater Lady Croom
- Thomasina working on Latin while Septimus eats an apple
- Thomasina suspects that her mother lovesByron
- Saw them in the gazebo together reading poetry
- Septimus gives Thomasina's math work an A -
- Because she went beyond the task set
- Thomasina discovers that the same process would allow a person to chart natural objects
- Intends to graph the shape of the apple leaf Septimus left
- Thomasina and Septimus talk of Cleopatra
- Discuss the loss of irreplaceable texts
- Septimus believes nothing is truly lost they will always be discovered or written again
- Discuss the loss of irreplaceable texts
- Septimus reads Thomasina's Latin assignment fluently
- Thomasina realises hes cheating because he already knows the text in English, angering her
- Captain Brice and Chater confront Spetimus
- Chater states that if Septimus wants to talk to him he must speak through Brice
- Becomes confusing but they speak of a duel, Lady Croom interrupts
- Septimus agrees to duel
- Also insults Brice so fits him in for a duel after Chater
- Septimus agrees to duel
- Becomes confusing but they speak of a duel, Lady Croom interrupts
- Chater states that if Septimus wants to talk to him he must speak through Brice
- Lady Croom takes Septimus' copy of 'The Couch of Eros'
- Lady Croom tells Septimus to borrow Byron's pistols so he cannot go off and travel Europe
- Also comments on Thomasina' terrible piano playing
- Scene 4
- Hannah reads the note written in Thomasina's math book to Valentine
- A similar note to the one written by Fermat
- Thomasina has been graphing the same formula on different scales
- She calls it the New Geometry of Irregular Forms
- Valentine tells Hannah Thomasina could have used her technique to draw... the apple leaf that is coincidently on the table
- Valentine realises she is using the result as her starting point which is an iterated algorithm
- The same thing Valentine is doing with grouse
- Valentine is looking at population change by using sidley parks game shooting records
- The same thing Valentine is doing with grouse
- She calls it the New Geometry of Irregular Forms
- Characters: Valentine Hannah Bernard
- Bernard finds a handwritten verse in Byrons copy of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- Hannah notes however that it is not Byrons handwriting
- Hannah discovers a letter from Lady Croom in 1810 mentioning her husbands marriage to Mrs Chater
- Meaning Mr Chater was dead by 1810
- Bernard convinced Byron killed Chater in a duel
- Hannah states hes jumping to conclusions, there is no evidence to prove he was at Sidley Park
- Valentine has proof - Byron was mentioned in a game book
- Hannah states hes jumping to conclusions, there is no evidence to prove he was at Sidley Park
- Valentine and Hannah discuss that it would have took decades for Thomasina to complete her method, that computers can now complete in seconds
- Valentine states only a madman would take up such a project by hand
- The sounds of a pistol is heard - dawn
- Hannah reads the note written in Thomasina's math book to Valentine
- Scene 3
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