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 everyday, Stoppard shows us that despite our constant advancement, our basic ideas have remained unchanged. Stoppard por…