Analysis of Deathtrap
Plot- Dramatic Structure
Characters
Sidney- a struggling playwright whom is married to Myra
Myra- Sidney's wife
Clifford- a playwright that attends a conference Sidney holds
Helga- neighbor to Myra and Sidney, psychic
Plot
The characters are trying to figure out a way to obtain the rights to a play and resort to conspiring and ultimately killing one another.
- Exposition: the meaning or purpose in the play would have to be understanding the plot
- Foreshadowing: indications of what will happen next is how Helga tells the other characters that she feels bad things about the house
- Complications: the complex elements are where the characters fight
- Crisis: the decisive movement would be the murders that arise from the complications
- Climax: the highest point is the crisis of Sidney and Clifford killing one another
- Reversal: the change of pace in the play and the characters in the second act
- Discovery: when I realized that Sidney and......
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