Cosi

‘Lewis tells Roy, “no one is a success or a failure”. How much does the play support or refute this statement' The world of Cosi does portray failures and successes but it does not label them such No, what Cosi does is take people that today’s society would mark as failures or successful and prove how this is not set in stone, also that the lines that class people as failures or successes is viewed differently from person to person. Nowra is proving how peoples personality are false and flawed. Cosi the play shows that most people are pretending to be someone else and if that false person gets called a success then isn’t that a false sense of success. Today’s world is experiencing a incredible false idea of success, we look at billboards and see the ideal us, but that us is false there is no one on the planet that looks like that, it’s all electronic trying to get us to spend our money on the thought of achieving perfection. And perfection is just the top of success, so in reality the world is caught on achieving something that does not exist. So if we then take a look at the crazy patients from the play they seem to be the ones most open to reality and sure footed people. While outside the walls of the institute the people are running around scared of being outcast. The patients in the institution have strong voices and know what they want, even Henry who is a stuttering insecure man, finds is voice and does not hesitate to show is opinion when he or is beliefs are threatened. This is clearly proven when Henry attacks Nick about being a communist, Henry show strong character and prepose evidence that no one is can be set as a failure. I think Nowra set out to prove to society that failures and successful people don’t exist and for the people he couldn’t convinces he shows them that you can be whoever you want as long as you go for it. This play is littered with the most extraordinary and ordinary people, living intertwined behind the institution walls. And as the play goes on it becomes harder to see the difference between patients and the every day person. In this play there are people like Nick a collage success following is passion in directing and acting. He is also the best friend of Lewis who is directing the play Cosi Fan Tutte, now if you met Nick walking down the street next to Henry you would see to opposites. One would be looking confident and sure about himself and the other insecure and nervous, and you would probably think of Henry as a failure if you compeer him to Nick. But I highly doubt that Henry would sleep with Lucy if he was Lewis’s best friend who is going out with Lucy because he values friend ship highly and is morally just. Nick however is self centred and over confident, and thinks Lucy is attractive so he jumps at the opportunity when Lucy and Nick are fighting and sleeps with her because is morals are corrupt. And that is the real world we live in a uncertain one, a world that is not what it seems and to be where everyone is a failure and a success no one is one or the other. And that is why failures and successes don’t exit because we are all unstable and uncut gems.