Mary
Charlie
Play Analysis Terms
Analysis of Mary's Wedding
Surprise
100

Where Mary is from

What is England?

100

Where Charlie is from

What is Canada?

100

The central issue or basic subject of the play

What is the seed?

100

A seed for Mary's Wedding

(Multiple acceptable answers)

100

A character's main goal throughout the play

What is a super objective?

200

What Mary does to calm Charlie down in the barn

What is recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

200

The war Charlie fights in

What is World War I?

200

Something that occurs that generally should not or would not happen

What is an event?

200

Five events in Mary's Wedding

(Multiple acceptable answers)

200

What Flowers was promoted to

What is a lieutenant?

300

What Mary does after Charlie asks her to meet her in the barn before he leaves for war

What is not going to meet him?

300

The area of the military that Charlie fights in

What is the cavalry?

300

The two sides of an event

What is external and internal?

300

Charlie's super objective

What is to marry Mary, to help Mary move on, to make Mary happy, etc?

300

The person leads the charge at the end of Mary's Wedding

Who is Charlie?

400

The poem Mary references when she says she will die of heartbreak

What is "Lady of Shallot"?

400

What Charlie says is the worst thing he has ever done

What is kill a man?

400
How a character plans to achieve their super objective

What is through-action?

400
Three major climaxes in Mary's Wedding

What is Mary meeting Charlie, Charlie going to war, Charlie dying, etc?

400

An example of a moral commandment

What is thou shall not kill, treat others how you want to be treated, etc?

500
The thing that cancels the tea that Mary and Charlie are at together

What is a thunderstorm?

500

What Flowers tells Charlie about his wound

What is that it will impress his girl?

500

The play's response to the seed

What is theme?
500

Mary's super objective and through-action

What is to marry Charlie and to keep in touch with him through letters, to find true love and to move on from Charlie, etc?

500

The force of conflict that challenges or strengthens through-action in play analysis

What is counter through-action?

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