Arcadia

Throughout the text, Tom Stoppard's play, Arcadia, makes a series of philosophical statements regarding the theme of determinism. These statements are developed largely through images and completely different time periods, particularly those of the Romantic and Enlightenment eras. Stoppard uses the theme of determinism to show how the ideas of the Romantic era and the present day have gone in a circle similar to a time cycle. Even though we get more and more advanced …

…gives us another example of how our beliefs have pretty much stayed the same throughout this time period. Throughout Arcadia, the image of the apple and the garden show the reader how the basic beliefs in society have remained unchanged since the early 1800s. In this time cycle that I have referred to, a lifetime will pass and parts of a belief may change, but it is the basic idea that has remained the same.