Repeating Patterns in Arcadia

Repeating Patterns in Arcadia

1. Characters

   • Lady Croom & Chloe
   • Septimus & Bernard
   • Bernard & Byron
   • Augustus & Gus
   • Thomasina & Valentine
   • Chloe & Thomasina

2. Distant Popping of Guns

   • On Bernard's Arrival pg25
   • Thomasina pg20
   • Death will always be a constant
     • Connects the time periods
     • Et in Arcadia ego
   • Pop, pop, pop...

3. Burning Knowledge

   • Thomasina's Death
     • Hannah: ...burned to death
   • Hannah: Made a bonfire.
     • Of Septimus' work from the hermitage
   • Thomasina: burned the great library of Alexandria
   • The paper blazes in Septimus's hand and he lets it burn out on the metal tray.

4. The Piano Playing

   • pg59
     • a piano is heard, beginning to play quietly, unintrusively, improvisationally
   • pg57
     • The noise is a badly played piano in the next room. It had been going on for some time since Thomasina left.

5. Valentine:The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.