Time and Scene: A Southern plantation house, at night. It is April of 1865 and news of General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox has spread throughout the South. Brothers Earl and Paul, fighting on opposite sides of the war, have both died in a recent battle. Union General Creon has requisitioned the plantation as his command post and has declared martial law. Enter Annie through the plantation door, who walks to a small fountain at the center of the stage. She is followed, moments later by Irene. The Civil War was a tumultuous period in American history. Eleven states seceded from the Union, prompting what some call the “bloodiest war in US history,” where an estimated 700,000 men and women died from combat, disease, and starvation (Downs). …show more content…
By 1865, the South has been devastated by the war. Cities have burned, farms have been destroyed or left barren, and the railroads have been smashed. In addition, the South’s primary source of cheap labor, slaves, has been lost due to the Emancipation Proclamation (Paskoff). The land teeters on a knife-edge. Unrest flows through the population as poverty and chaos knock at the door. A strong military hand is needed to maintain order, a hand that “General” Creon readily waves. The primary action in A Civil War Antigone takes places in front of the plantation, for it serves as both home for Annie and Irene, but also as the base of operations for Creon’s occupying Union forces. Looking at Figure 1, it is clear that the plantation is large, white, three-storied, and faced by eight tall columns. However, this once grand symbol of wealth and power has slipped into decay. The plantation’s slave force has long since abandoned the site. As a consequence, the white façade of the building is chipped and faded, the surrounding grounds are wild and overgrown …show more content…
While a decaying plantation can be represented in a backdrop on a traditional stage, placing the production in front of an actual surviving plantation would add a heightened effect, putting the audience in the scene. The production would be staged at night, not only to emphasize the secrecy of the first scene, but to present the play at a time when the heat of the day as begun to cool. For placing the audience, typical risers and chairs would never fit, for it would ruin the old Southern aesthetic. Instead, a semi-circle of tables and chairs, would line the production, as if set for an outside banquet. The tables would have to fit the time period, as well as the full table-setting on them. Dinner would be served, a range of authentic Southern cuisine, presented by a staff in period servant’s attire. By placing the audience thus, they become immersed in not only the setting, becoming part of the play, but can experience a moment of genuine Southern
Jubilee is a book that tells the story of Elvira Dutton, who is more known to others as Vyry. Vyry lived her life starting from the antebellum years, which were the years prior to the Civil War and the time when slavery was thriving in America, throughout the Civil War years and to the Reconstruction period. Being a mulatto and a bastard of Master John, she spent most of her youth working as a slave in the Duttons’ plantation and living throughout three of the most important and famous periods in the history of America, she witnessed and even experienced a lot of changes in politic and economy as well as social that were happening in those periods. Events in part one took place during the antebellum years.
This piece of work has information ranging from the death toll of the war itself to the economical disaster it caused in the south. Warren leaves out no interesting information. Robert Penn Warren is a poet and a novelist with an interest in the subject of history. He never called him self a historian, nor did he want to ever be labeled as one, but he is certain that our Civil
Almost everyone has heard of Nazi-German concentration camps during World War II, and that is where the Jews, and anyone else the Nazis did not like, went. But what we hear less of is the prisoner of war camps. How did the Germans treat the servicemen that they captured? Another thing people do not learn much about is the prisoner of war camps during the Civil War. And how does the Nazi-German camps compare to how the American camps?
Our story begins with Doug, who was a slave on a remote mining site in the middle of Alaska. He and his friend Joe, along with 286 other slaves would work from 6 am to 11 pm each day in a deep coal mine for their owner; Donald. It was a hard working life but Doug figured out a way to get out. But of course any story isn’t that quick or simple, Doug ran into a bigger problem as he left the site, which we will soon find out.
Edwards voices the drastic growth in production and new inventions in the North, but points out the South’s struggle with keeping up with the drastic growth. It is clear Edwards wanted reader to fully understand that the South was struggling greatly after the war and because of it the North led the Industrial Revolution. Edwards focuses around the following question: What does the South do to reestablish itself and become economically stable again after facing an overwhelming loss agriculturally? Edwards use of evidence to back up her argument of the South’s struggles after the war and the lack of reconstruction make it a reliable statement. Her evidence includes groups such as Ku Klux Klan and the Republican corruption to be main evidence to why the South was behind the rest of the nation.
Anger and frustration spread among the southern states as the new economy and changes it brought along with it set in. The North and its increasing economy became more and more isolated from that of the south, and civil war erupted right under the nation’s
About 650,000 soldiers died during the Civil War; either by combat, accidents, diseases or starvation. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars America has faced. The Union beat the Confederates over slavery. The United States no longer has slavery and reconstruction follows the war. Reconstruction was different for everyone in the North and the South.
Names: Hoang Nguyen Period:1 Date: 6-13-18 Era of the Civil War Following the era of westward expansion is the bloodiest and scariest era of America, the inevitable era to solve the conflict between the North and South of its own nation. That is the Era of the Civil War. As Lincoln said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, America can’t stand if North and South not became one. In order to survive, there is a need of unification.
24 November 2015 The Real Death of Reconstruction There is no easy way to decide who can be held accountable for the end of the Reconstruction Era. Attempts to rebuild the South ceased to exist in 1877, just over ten years after the Confederacy surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. It seemed as though everything was on the right track in 1876, the one hundred year anniversary of The United States. That was, however, until the South waged conflict against black and white citizens of The United States.
The Civil War The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history with over 600000 American deaths reported. This war was fought to keep the Confederate States from leaving the Union. The Union won because they had a telegraph system and had more resources. The effect of the Union victory has had a large impact on society.
The Civil War is characterized as the bloodiest war in American History. From 1861 to 1865, the North and South fought over several of disagreements and encounters. The Civil War caused hundreds and thousands of men to lose their life, about 620,000 soldiers had died. The Civil War was fought in Pennsylvania, Texas, New Mexico, and Florida. Civil War began because the North wanted to abolish slavery, the South seceded from the Union, and the North overpowered the South.
The cast of the play are unaware of the audience, however, the audience is able to listen to dialogue that occurs throughout the theater, whether it is in the headsets between technicians, on stage between the actors playing their characters in the play and between the director and actors who make adjustments when necessary. The third fourth wall was at its edge of breaking, where the audience is almost unable to tell whether what they are experiencing is real or not. As an observer of the rehearsal of this play, this wall was broken when I understood that what I was watching was a rehersal of a play, of a rehearsal of a play. It was difficult to describe or understand when the cast of 10 out of 12 were actually in or out of character. The complexity of this play lies in the use of metatheatre, which has been exploited to its fullest extent
When one looks back in our history, we have always thought that everyone suffered after the Civil War. The Civil War after all was extremely destructive to anything and anyone involved. However, Robert Tracy McKenzie did not believe that everyone suffered a great deal. In fact, in his article, “Civil War and Socioeconomic Change in the Upper South: The Survival of Local Agricultural Elites in Tennessee, 1850-1870,” he discussed how the top five percent of the elite farmers were still prosperous. McKenzie’s article focuses on all three regions in Tennessee, but only a few select counties.
The living legacy of the United States Civil War is a complicated time in American history one finds difficult to describe. The ramification of the war prior, during and after still haunt the current citizens who call The States their home. Tony Horwitz’s book Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War looks at the wide gap of discontent that still looms in the late 1990s. For some southerners, the Confederacy still lives on through reenactments, stories and beliefs. For others in the South, reminders the land was dedicated to the Confederacy spark hatred and spite.
Wars can often disrupt a nation's economy – particularly during the years following a given conflict – and this is never more true than in the case of a civil war. In their paper, Goldin and Lewis conduct an in-depth examination of the American Civil War, considering both its costs and aftereffects. The authors split the war's costs into two distinct classifications. First, there is the evident, direct cost of the Civil War, namely expenditures that fueled the conflict and the inevitable destruction of both physical capital, and human capital as a result of wartime casualties. Second, Goldin and Lewis consider the equally important, but difficult to identify opportunity cost of the war – an indirect cost brought about by disruptions in typical