In one of my classes, we watched a movie that recorded the remaking of the ancient Greek play called “Oedipus Rex.” Watching this play really gave me an understanding of the power and importance of words. In ancient Greek theatre, there was a lot of talking, but not a lot of action. The characters had to speak out loudly and with a lot of emotion in order for the audience to understand completely what was going on because there was not a lot of action in the plays. I also that it was very interesting that in ancient Greek theatre they did not show violence and death because they thought it was bad enough to have to talk about it. This just shows the how dominating and important the spoken word really are.
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