In the short play "The Hysterical History of the Trojan War", the characters act like modern day teens. They talk sassy to each other while using cell phones and acting like the war wasn't such a serious objective. They also use alliterations to describe different types of objects that we see today. The person who wrote this play know how to captivate the audience by relating to things they would know about, such as modern-day commercials. The characters are introduced in the beginning, and most of them have sassy teenager attitudes which makes the play comical. The whole play is basically about how the Trojan War was started, along with describing important deaths and other events within the war. The ending of the play makes it clear how the war actually ended: with the Trojan Horse trick. All of the characters and events match the real objective, too. To which makes it less confusing for the people who want to understand the concept of the real meaning of the play.
It's good that they made those changes because if they didn't, it wouldn't be that interesting. The characters wouldn't say funny things that made people laugh. We don't live back then, so it's more interesting to the audience when the characters talk about things that they know about, instead of having them say things they would say in stories about Greek mythology. They don't use long or confusing words (except for the names of the people and the names of the place), which made it easier for the audience to understand. The person who wrote The Hysterical History of the Trojan War knows how to captivate the audience by relating to things they would know about, such as modern-day commercials. Without the changes, the plot, the personalities of the characters, and the important events withing the play would be harder to understand.
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