The Traveling Symphony Analysis

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The Traveling Symphony uses the saying “Survival is insufficient,” as a way to add meaning to their lives. This motto encourages all of them to find something that makes them feel pure bliss despite their currently bleak conditions. For example, when Kirsten performs “she never feels more alive” (Mendel 57) which is the same feeling that the Traveling Symphony is trying to spread. They are preaching to their audiences that there is more to life than simply doing what is necessary. The medium in which the Symphony is communicating their message to the common person is through entertainment because it brings communities together in laughter and happiness, restoring society’s faith in humanity. Also, as the Symphony travels from settlement to …show more content…
To emphasize, Arthur leaves the rural Delano Island in order to move to Toronto and later discovers his love for acting as shown by his answer to Miranda’s question, “You love acting, don’t you?” In which he responds, “Yes” (Mendel 78). Arthur refused to accept the mediocre life offered to him; instead, he fought to do what he loved and eventually died doing what brought him the most pleasure. In addition, the line assists in the understanding of how a group of nomadic artisans is able to survive in a world where seeing tomorrow is an uncertainty. The reason the Traveling Symphony is able to attract an audience in various towns along their route is because society would crave to relive the feelings of what made them happy before the pandemic of the Georgia Flu. Not only would that give them hope of returning to the way the world was prior to the Georgia Flu, but also be able to remember a part of how society was able to witness entertainment with only a touch of a button. Identically to how Clark’s Museum of Civilization is an attempt at helping the new generation of people born in the post-apocalyptic world remember what happened before the life-taking Georgia Flu, the Traveling Symphony helps those without recollection of Hollywood films and television an idea of what was capable with technology; hopefully, this would encourage the most recent age group to pursue the revival of not only electricity but also modern
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