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This 6 page paper considers Plautus's play, and how it follows the typical structure of returning everything to normal; it also considers why the slave is so important to the plot. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Forum because there is a character in Forum named "Miles Gloriosus," and hes just as pompous as his ancient counterpart. In addition, both plays are comedies set in and around
Rome, both feature a slave who is much wiser than anyone else, and both are hysterically funny. This paper considers Plautuss play, and how it follows the typical structure of
returning everything to normal; it also considers why the slave is so important to the plot. Discussion Plautus appears to have been a man of the middle class; his plays
reflect nothing of the "manners, tastes or ideas of the aristocracy" (Bates, 1906). But they do have a strong "spirit of adventure" and a "flavor of the sea," because he
frequently uses Greek phrases "and indications of his acquaintance with the slights and pleasures of the Greek cities on the Mediterranean" (Bates, 1906, vol. 2). Plautus borrowed "his plots,
incidents, scenes, characters and probably much of his dialogue from the authors of the new Attic comedy"; that comedy is defined as a theatrical form in which, for the first
time, "love became the principal element in the drama, but it also was seldom an honest love" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). "Stock" characters made their appearance as well; including the
"heavy father ... [who] is often led into the vices and follies which he has reproved in his son" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). These comedies depicted the "most salient features
of Athenian society," but without trying to improve it, "presenting only in attractive colors the lax morality of the age" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). Plautuss plays give us "a
valuable picture of Roman life and thought in the age in which he lived" but there "is no trace of any serious purpose behind the comic scenes and characters (Bates,
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