Mere Mortals Play Analysis

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“Sometimes some people deserve a good high five, in the face, with a chair” (Witty Remarks and Funny Sayings). Attention grabbing comedic plays catch the readers interest instantly because they have light subjects that can immediately brighten the reader’s mood. Each of the acts that make up the play Mere Mortals has hidden jokes and meaning inside. Theme and comedy are two of the major literary characteristics that allow a connection to develop between the acts. The comedy keeps the themes light-hearted and allows for the expansion of certain ideas that David Ives is trying to get across to the reader. Mere Mortals by David Ives is a set of six acts where the theme of each act assists when developing the comedic value. Light and slightly …show more content…
This act uses comedic ways of getting the major theme across. This theme being that all humans have a routine way of going through life. By relating humans to mayflies it allows the story to have a lighter feel than it would if the whole play was taken place as humans. The whole idea of a human life and human nature revolves around the fact that the earth needs to keep being repopulated in order for the human race to carry on surviving. The act gets this idea across through the specific use of mayflies because they do not live for long periods of time, but in that time all they are doing is “feeding – meeting – mating –breeding – [and] dying” which is much like humans …show more content…
The act follows Ed through his day as he is pretending to be someone he is not. There are multiple instances when Ed hints at himself being a famous painter to other people like when he said “Do you know who you almost killed…Another couple of inches and the world would’ve lost a hundred masterpieces” (102). The theme of this act has to do with people not wanting to be themselves. Humans are always admiring people who they think are better than them and striving to be just like them. In this act that is what Ed is doing. He saw someone who inspired him so he decided he would become the famous impressionist painter Edgar
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