My brain is having an explosion of ideas.
there, i did a metaphore.
Sinecdoches and metonymy are confusing, but i will give it a try:
Sinecdoche: He didn't answer when i called his house (when i really mean the phone of the house)
Metonym: Turn of the light (actually.. you turn of the lamp/lightbulb)
I have been having a hard type differentiating both, but now that i got a better picture of how they work (...thanks to the examples of wikipedia...) i will try to see how they are used in plays.
Let's say you have an abstract play, in where all you see is not what you are supposed to see. everything has a different meaning. The director will use the metaphore, the sinecdoche and metonym to express everything. Now let's set a theme to the play....hmmm.. lets say ignorance. human and social ignorance. now the director will show things on stage that people reckon are true, but are really not true. I don't know if i make myself clear, but the point is that this play is filled with false images, which represent the truth.
Ok... so getting to the set design of the play, we could have things for example we could have a house representing a country. saying that the country is home. or maybe a bottle a carton of cigarretes can represent cancer. The point is that things are not what they actually are, they are things that represent, through this 3 literary images, something else.
In this play, we should have a plot. Let's say the plot is the conflict between 2 countries, for instance USA and Russia during the cold war. The SR-71 blackbirds (spy planes which could reach a speed of mach 5) could be represented by a pilot, and this would be a metonym, or a turbine can be on stage, representing the SR-71 by a sinecdoche. or maybe a blackbird, literally, to represent it. The point is to represent the SR-71 or the SR-91 (Aurora... which came after the SR-71 and could reach speeds of up to mach 8, but it's existent is not confirmed) using something else, connecting by these literary images.
Many UFOs were "spotted" during this time. Not really UFOs but spy balloons of the USAF which were actually being used to spy on USSR technology, but civilians claimed to be aliens which the government knew of and were hiding from them. So in the play, this balloons could be actually be UFO. to say that these WERE UFOs, there you got a metaphore on stage, but from a weird perspective.
By this method, you can recreate a new perspective of the cold war on stage using this set design tricks, and you get an abstract play representing all of these things. But as you see, things have to be familiar to all audiences, so people can, after a little thinking, figure out what the director really meant. But what if the director wanted to put something on stage that was only in his mind? for example what if the director sees these technology biased, and represents them in an unusual way to people, is it still right? If you want to represent something completely different out of something, is it right? this sounds like freedom of speech, so i guess it is, but there may be different way to interpret something if you play with these images and make it confusing.
i.e. representing the SR-71 as a demon, a flying demon.
Some people in the USSR may be in agreement, but north americans won't.
These brings me to the question: if you are representing things as they are not, and people will interpret them different... can you make a play which will be seen completely different from 2 different perspectives?
What do i mean by this? I mean that the north americans will see a different story and different meaning to the play that the russians will, giving 2 different stories, with different endings. Maybe pleasing for both? but everything should be perfectly made to represent 2 things that make sense at the same time. Is it possible? Is it possible to make 2 plays in 1, using metaphors, sinecdoches and metonyms? 1 play that tells 2 stories.
SR-71 (Blackbird)
SR-91 (Aurora)
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SONIC BOOM CAUSES DOPPLER EFFECT
1) The idea is to apply those concepts to the work you are carrying out, not to imaginary plays.
ResponderEliminar2) If you are going to imagine something, imagine something pertinent to your context. Remember: you are not from the USA, you are Peruvian.
Roberto