Cost of Living

For this paper, you need to read the play Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok. You can find this play through the school bookstore, or purchase the Kindle edition (or other e-reader), or you can access the play on Scribd.com
Chapter Four of your book (Appreciation of Theatre) describes how actors think about character motivations in order to develop a stage performance. For this paper, I want you to apply that to the four characters in Cost of Living. For each character, I want you to answer these questions:
–What is this character’s background? (Think: class, race, gender, education level, etc.)
–What is this character’s relationship with the other character[s] they interact with in this play?
–What does this character want from the other character[s] they interact with in the play?
–What motivates this character ethically? You may draw on any of the content in our ethics modules to back up your analysis. You may want to focus on virtues the character exhibits, the character’s sense of duty to a certain princilpe, the character’s desired outcomes, the character’s stage of ethical development, or how the character exhibits the ethics of care for another character.
You should organize your response as a paper of at least 1000 words. Your paper should include an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement. You should not use any materials outside of the play and the theatre textbook.
You may organize your paper however you think will be most effective, but I suggest one of the two following outlines: a.) An introduction followed by a paragraph each for the four main characters, or b.) an introduction followed by a paragraph each for the “pairs” of characters that appear in scenes together.

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