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한국현대영미드라마학회 현대영미드라마 현대영미드라마 제16권 제3호
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2003.12
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83 - 116 (34page)

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Arcadia, the best play by Tom Stoppatrd so far, was first staged at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre in April 1993. Basically it can best be understood as a literary detective work. As it switches back and forth from the early nineteenth century and the present time, it shows the real picture of the earlier time on the one hand, and the literary detectives’ efforts to reconstruct the past on the other.
At a larger level, Arcadia is a grand drama of scientific debates. The scientific theories featured comprise no less than Newtonian physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics (entropy), and Chaos Theory. Into the debates are also woven vast themes like determinism, free-will, death, love, our quest for truth, and so on. This may sound enormously daunting, but to Stoppard's immense credit, granted that some basic understanding of the scientific theories is necessary for a full appreciation, Arcadia can even be satisfactorily enjoyed without particularly detailed knowledge of them, due to its extremely dexterously handled comedies on the one hand, and the moving human drama of love and death on the other.
Though it may not be tenable under rigorous scientific scrutiny, we can postulate the interactions of the scientific theories in Arcadia as follows for the sake of convenience. First, the Newtonian paradigm stands for a rigorous determinism where the universe runs according to its strict rules with no room for human participation. At the other end of the spectrum stands entropy theory with its fearful determinism that the universe is irrevocably heading for the heat death. Chaos Theory cuts in amid these opposite determinisms to make room for human free will and chance which make the world as it is.
The question of chaos and order lies at the centre of Arcadia against a vast background of scientific theories, and Stoppard impressively demonstrates that neither inevitability (order) nor randomness (chaos) alone can lead to the true vision of the world. It is the interaction of the two, “the fortuitous and the ordained” according to Guildenstern, and “the unpredictable and predetermined” according to Valentine, that makes the world as diverse as it is coherent. This fusion of chaos and order seems to be the final vision of the world Stoppard reached after some thirty years of vigorous career.

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