Select four reasons american drama had a slow start.

Four main reasons for the slow start of American Drama were -  prejudice against dramas association with court life and monarchy ,  no audiences , lack of finances  and Puritans outlawed drama in some colonies.

Explanation:

While dramas had already become popular in the European countries, American drama still was developing and trying to flourish. Turning away from the usual fantasy and instead focusing on the realism way of art, America drama began it's journey.

But this development of American drama is not without any glitches. As most dramas are based on courtly life and monarchy, credits to European society, there was some prejudice about the depiction of these lifestyles. Hardly would the dramas attract audiences enough to sustain itself as most states were still colonies under the Britishers, thus leading to no sufficient source of money. Lastly, America being still a colony, the Puritan majority outlawed depiction or staging of dramas in the colonies. All these factors made for the slow start and development of drama in modern America.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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