The play “Cost of Living”

For this paper, you need to read the play Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok. You can find this play through
the school bookstore, or purchase the Kindle edition (or other e-reader), or you can access the play on
Scribd.com
Chapter Four of your book (Appreciation of Theatre) describes how actors think about character motivations
in order to develop a stage performance. For this paper, I want you to apply that to the four characters in
Cost of Living. For each character, I want you to answer these questions:
–What is this character’s background? (Think: class, race, gender, education level, etc.)
–What is this character’s relationship with the other character[s] they interact with in this play?
–What does this character want from the other character[s] they interact with in the play?
–What motivates this character ethically? You may draw on any of the content in our ethics modules to back
up your analysis. You may want to focus on virtues the character exhibits, the character’s sense of duty to a
certain princilpe, the character’s desired outcomes, the character’s stage of ethical development, or how the
character exhibits the ethics of care for another character.