Topdog And August: Osage County: Play Analysis

Considering the specific events in the story however, I believe the word in the flames and the supposed fortune actually specifically influenced Booth’s life, instead of being signs of divine future-seeing. Also, I believe that Lincoln’s dream, aside from being somewhat concerning, was just a coincidence and was probably caused by the rational long-term fear the entire Lincoln family had of being

The final motivating factor that influenced Booth to assassinate Lincoln is that he did it for the good of the country. Booth believed that his country wanted the same as he did, although that was not the case. In Booth’s diary it states, “The country is not what it was. This forced Union is not what I have loved. I do not care what becomes of me. I have no desire to outlive my country.” In the statement he is explaining that since Lincoln has been the president he has turn the country “upside

‘Kill me,’ he begged the soldiers. ‘Kill me, kill me!’ ‘We don’t want to kill you,’ Conger reassured him, ‘we want you to get well’” (175). The significance of this quote is the fact the United States wanted Booth to get well, because they wanted to make him a prize for the long 12-day manhunt. The 12-day manhunt took a lot of the man power as they searched around for Booth and they were satisfied in getting him. The soldiers wanted to take him in as prisoner and let the court deal with him and give him a punishment that would satisfy the whole nation. Although this was what was wanted from Booth, Boston Corbett had shot him nevertheless thinking he was going to shoot another individual. In addition, another important thing that one should understand is that Booth did not thoroughly think of any backup plans for his escape, his group, Atzerodt, Powell, Herold, and Booth just had one way to get away. Although this may have been the fact only Herold and Booth had successfully followed the path. Atzerodt and Powell had to find a different way in getting away due to the circumstances they were

In the play Cosi Louis Nowra challenges the important themes of love, fidelity, sanity and insanity within a range of dramatic techniques. Cosi is set in Melbourne, during the early 1970’s. Numerous political and radical events were occurring. The Vietnam War protest was raging, the sexual revolution was rolling, and mental illness was still misunderstood and mistreated. Due to these contexts, love, fidelity, sanity and insanity are big issues that surface throughout the play. Nowra comments on society’s issues. Firstly, he uses dialogue to convey the characters various thoughts and feelings towards these issues.

Booth was now in the box of the theatre. On April 14, 1865, just after 10 p.m., Booth pulled a .44-calibre derringer and shot President Lincoln in the back of the head. “He grappled briefly with Union officer Maj. Henry Rathbone (who, along with his fiancée, was in the box as the Lincoln’s guest), swung himself over the balustrade, and leaped off it, reportedly shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (the motto of the state of Virginia, meaning “Thus always to tyrants!”) or “The South is avenged!” or both” (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017). Booth next jumped off the stage, breaking his leg in the process, but managed to make it to his getaway horse before anyone in the shocked crowd could stop him (Biography April 28, 2017). The attempt to kill Seward did not succeed, but Lincoln died shortly after seven o’clock the following morning. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017).

They had hoped that with the capture of the president that the Union would release captured Confederate soldiers in exchange for the safe return of the president back to the Union (law2.umkc.edu). Though his plan was ultimately foiled with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender (law2.umkc.edu). At which point it became clear to Booth that the only way to avenge the South was to murder the president (law2.umkc.edu).

When Booth found out that the president was coming to Ford’s Theater on April 14th, 1865, he was very determined to kill him. In chapter one, it reads, “Booth heard the big news: In just eight hours, the man who was subject of all his hating and plotting would stand on the very steps where he sat now.” This is talking about how excited Booth was when he found out the president was coming to the theater. Instantly, his mind started forming a cunning plan to annihilate the confederate leaders.

The death of Abraham Lincoln is described very vividly: “...the sphere of Britannia metal poked a neat round hole in Lincoln’s skull and then pushed fragments of that bone deep into Lincoln’s brain as it traveled precisely seven and a half inches before plowing to a stop in the dense gray matter.” (page 208). After the arrests of the other co-conspirators like Azterodt and Powell, detective Lafayette Baker attempts to hunt down John Wilkes Booth and David Herold who are hiding out in a swamp in Maryland. Eventually, the two conspirators are found in a barn in Virginia and John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed as the barn burned to the ground. Finally, the assassin of the killer of Abraham Lincoln is killed in the same manner as the president.

While Booth and Lincoln did not know one another, Lincoln did think about Booth and appreciated watching him perform at Ford's Theater.

Sadly, Lincoln was killed due to the belief of Booth that “Lincoln was going to over throw the constitution and destroy the south he loved.” (Booths reason for assassination) This was most likely caused by the fact that Booth was an open confederate sympathizer during the war. It was also thought that the guards were not doing their jobs at the theatre and that they allowed Booth to sneak by and shoot Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer pistol. Recently after Lincoln’s death it was found that co-conspirators were involved in Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s

John Wilks Booth, an actor and hater of the south and blacks, makes plans to tear apart the United State’s government by planning his assassins timing to kill part of Lincoln’s Cabinet along with the president’s death. However, his original plan involved only capturing President Lincoln, then holding him hostage in exchange for confederate prisoners of war. But not long before his plans were going to take place,

In spite of Atzerodt not thinking the plans of booth were as convincing as he thought. “But, Johnson escaped death that night. Atzerodt just could not do it. The more he drank the worse the plan sounded.”(Swanson 69) According to the quote Atzerodt couldn’t even get out of the bar to try to go to the room the vice president was staying in and additionally if a drunk man can find the flaws in Booth’s plan it is

     The plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun, deal with the love, honor, and respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda, the caring but overbearing and over protective mother, wants to be taken care of, but in A Raisin in the Sun, Mama, as she is known, is the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members, like Amanda, as overprotective, or like Mama, as overseers. I am going to give a contrast of the mothers in the plays.

Mudd the next day heard about the assassination and knew it was Booth since he had previously been apart of the plan. He sent them on their way to

He thought that God had put him here to correct the tyranny of Lincoln. He felt the need to justify why he was fighting in the war so he starting taking small jobs for the Confederate Underground. It was during this time that he came up with the plan to kidnap Lincoln and hold him for ransom. He knew Lincoln was not protected and often traveled alone. So he thought it was more than feasible to carry out his plan. He recruited several co-conspirators to help him including John Surratt, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Lewis Powell, Samuel Arnold and Mike O’Laughlen. They had nothing in common except the fact that they all admired Booth. Two weeks after Lincoln’s Second Inauguration, Booth laid out his plan of kidnapping him out of his theatre box, tying him up and lower him onto the stage in front of an audience including soldiers and many police outside of the theatre. They thought he was mad. On April 3rd, the war was over. Robert E. Lee had surrendered and the kidnapping plan ruined. So Booth began to hatch another plan of assassinating the president. One the morning of April 14th, 1865, Lincoln awoke gitty and happy, Booth awoke late and to his amazement found out that Lincoln would be at the Ford