Melodrama quiz

Melodrama quiz answers:

1.Melodrama developed in the 19th century 

2.The reason it was called melodrama was it was a play that was accompanied by music hence its name Melo - for music or melody and drama

3.Melodrama was popular because all their plays had amazing settings, music, exaggerated acting and encouraged audience interaction which made it popular.

4.They there segments of a melodrama plot are:

• Provocation - the reason for a setting action to become a motion

• Pangs - when a good or innocent person suffers a punishment

• Penalty - a plot twist or an unexpected ending 

• The hero- he is supposed to be handsome, brave, honest and reliable

• The heroine-she is supposed to be beautiful, courageous, innocent and vulnerable

• The villain-he or she is supposed to be cunning, without morals, dishonest, cruel and evil

5.Some pf the conflicting themes they would explore were: Jusirce vs. revenge, honesty vs. dishonesty, inncoence vs. corruption

6.Most of the charcaters were mostly steriotypically made 

7.The three stock charcters I have chosen are: 

8.The first difference is that the faithful servant is uaully male and provides comic relief, does the dirty work and finds evodence against the villain while the maid servant does non of these and is a female.

9.An aside is when a charcater directky speaks to the audience ot reveal a seceret or a plan that is kept from the rest of the charcter to be able to drag the audience's attention away from any other action on the sateg on focus on the charcter's seceret, the aside should also giveaway the feeling of secerecy towards the audience.