Arcadia - Schoolroom

Arcadia - Schoolroom

1. Class

   • Issue in past and present
     • More format in past

2. Order/Disorder

   • Innocence - Experience e.g, Thomasina

3. Literature/Writing

   • Septimus reading Chater's poem - 'The Couch of Eros' instead of teaching Thomasina

4. Maths/Science

   • Discoveries take place
   • Attitudes towards education
     • Elitist
       • Men/Women
   • Ada Lovelace
     • Byron's daughter
       • Mathematician
         • First algorithm intended to be processed by a machine
   • Modern attitudes to maths/science
     • Valentine's computer

5. Knowledge/Academic Research

   • Everyone in the play is seeking knowledge

6. Women

   • PRESENT
     • Hannah as a researcher
       • Feminism
   • PAST
     • Innocent/prelapsarian state of Thomasina
     • Regency attitudes towards women/education