In the Years of the Ages Act 1 Scene 2

The selection is from my play 'In the Years of the Ages'. Please review in great detail the following selection, regarding form, movement, composition, style and writing skill set, with the emphasis on the writer's ability with imagination, language and development. the following selection is from Act 1 Scene 2, pages 13 through 17:

ACT 1 SCENE 2
Setting: Mecir, Aldercane, and Father Raskhar are on path to widow Laggett's home/ coming near to inform her of her son's death/The household is currently in mourning over the death of the elder Laggett. The grass is overgrown, the lawns nearly unkept as they approach the grounds.

Father Raskhar: I tell you! Discourse is not the need. Thy charm doeth reside betwixt the bounds of silence and humility; thus by shores on leave without a told resolution- can thee give adequate support in...Abandon this flock of dreadful information and permit this man of God to herd its news well. Gentle be my viewed disposition; and un-idle comfort is yours both to the Lady in waiting; of soon, great need.

Aldercane: To what word- (begins to speak but is held back by the older Mecir)

Mecir: A Father's mortal commandment is good upon double the hearing of it...Tis a caress whisper unmatching on all two nephew's lifting- clutched address- this I heed to; and hold with temporary refrains, that speech intelligence which makes the word of Sadutin premature; alas, be best that we court the hugging measures of an un-verbal offering to her when such then, a time overtakes us. Father- thy footsteps are as our direction to regard and observe; for which bear we no distant departing from.

Father Raskhar: This is thy trade assured. A gentle hand, a forming embrace, a loving hold- will suffice its accomplishments and prove our most cherished Wants. My ample verse, of purest diction and slogan voice, is well admiral to thee and should thus command the airs about on her first knowing of it- as mine trade applies me so.

Aldercane: Shalt I be the disciple to thy word Father- and adhere to all thou asks.

Mecir: Tis a mother's womb aches on this Sadutin child- for her once birthing, as Sadutin came alive to the earth, will conclude such wreathing premonition as she suspects it.....Mother laggett will know this end.

Father Raskhar: Pray dear child, a deafened sense as this, that of villain commission in her particular womb has it stolen from her whil'st she lay in ignorance to it. And that of so a sense might be it beyond and above the scope of her to know it. Mother Laggett deeds nay the powers advanced in thy suggest but stays she to the common pursuits of a common soul, not moved from a median point! Yet unordinary is her tender property methinks, which is more directed to a higher Will than a proxied force. (they come to her modest home) Fair Widow Laggett! (he knocks softly) If be pleasing, a consorting word with thee I desire! (no answer comes)

Mecir: Perhaps, word expands farther to our travels, upon more nimble limbs than we possess- coming forth from some messenger collecting and dispensing gossip, as a merchant to the hearing-to tell yet what is untold, to hear what is yet unspoken.

Aldercane: Nay, not so quickly!

Father Raskhar: Hold! Before overbearing ears connect to thy whisper shout. Good, kind lady! Structure for my receipt, a voiced acclaimation that doom and vacancy do not rove in freedom, as thieving bandits over thy residence hall! Thy hold some appointments with Life; to live about! (no word came/door opens slightly)

Voice: Tell me your profits in coming to oppose our peace. (woman's voice)

Father Raskhar: To speak of terms with Mother Laggett.

Voice: To what content do they entail?

Father Raskhar: It is but news for Mother Laggett to hear, which bear I to impart.

Voice: Come near, as thy will proceeds. (they slowly enter)

Aldercane: (whispers) Righteous, grieving word!- be bound to thy secluding darkness ......It would pain to see so a desolate sight- even to suppress the most amiable spirits. (he shivers in the cold)

Father Raskhar: Mother Laggett; dispose of thy secret abode...Come I, as enduring Father to thy bereaving sentiments.

Voice: (escorts them forward/by dim candlelight) Patience- she is descending to thee.

Mother Laggett: (appears from staircase) Yes Father, I am here in death holy, saddening wreath: a word has come to me? (she comes to view with two house maidens/one to each side with one bearing lantern to see with)

Father Raskhar: Do partnership make of you and darkness? To forfeit the glee once known to thee? -that did abide to pronounce thy image as fairest unequaled? I pray against it my lady.

Mother Laggett: No- what word is brought here in this entrance? (she notices her two nephews present) A heavier one it rather is to cast three couriers for tis purpose meaning.

Father Raskhar: A word too oft' simple for the telling; playing not the part of actions- only accomplice to them, yet stings thus the true pain of sorrow- for without the word, such the death cannot be known....A time of tribulation is beset upon thee, and thy fettering aches are soaked no greater depths with the contribution of this born saying...If by wrote or slogan speech whence the hand and tongue relay on equal ports of describe- the pain would be no further charged...I seek but to sway its enemy factions from thee.

Mother Laggett: As should two engross a valued time for a valueless inscription? What says you this? Two urchins' presence do guard the valleys and roots of thy communication- but hast trivial reports? There is no importance to it? Surely no Want it tends for me if its way's course weighs never to my concern- Come labourers...(she turns as do her maids and all begin to exit)

Mecir: Father! Strangle not to death the words meant for the knowing- before the submission is set, yet roves on the incessant, cowardly hall of a mind, pondering such the release of it, whil'st in this relative woman's leave, it slumbers ignorantly...A whispering mind suffocates beneath thy self-indecision...Truth must therein fortify all rightfulness; no matter the scaled measure for terrible resolve.

Father Raskhar: (turns in anger/rage) Pestulence poor child! Leave- by in my acute discretion. Of principal and duty, preserves not the perfect stance- if by jest these words clad rude armor, and starve all gentle dispositions. Hold where'st the foot would place itself...And permit a mind to tread as so the cautious foot- softly!

Mother Laggett: Father! (she turns) If the birth of it is so troubled bound- which plagues thy senses to be unfertile of response- some deformity must lay with it...Tell me now Father; for shadows are most of form than reality- and true substance is proved to be far sustained beyond thy difficult telling....Sorrow shall not build on thy word; but build it shall with all the tools and architecture in force, upon a vacant woman's ignorance of it! Oh test a valiant patience gripped in mine teased disposition, and foul a time unspared, as it soils away on me, and gives symptoms where thy hesitance is true thief of it all- then the loss is my gain and so increased in thy delay! Speak this purpose well in advance of concern.....Do not be a detriment counselor to my widow distress.

Father Raskhar: A barren robe shroud displaces me not from apprenticeship to a sorrowful matter-Tis, I bear the unbearable trade of appareled consort.

Mother Laggett: Tell mine ears for the chance of hearing a concrete word untold- as thy incapacity capitates mine receptive sense; tell me so father.

Father Raskhar: (hesitates/then speaks) A husband mate lies in final rest- upon this previous night shadow remains he, in a pre- destined catacomb tomb....and not to where his remains were firstly placed but moved irreverent to the sepulcher in waiting...unto the vault of the peoples of the past.

Mother Laggett: That is all?- to pursue a lengthy travel for this? to multiply a sorrow beset on a widow vocation (both Mecir and Aldercane look to each/stunned at the father's apparent deceit)

Father Raskhar: That thought is not of pattern of a monk's swirling perception- I am in a stormy mind, dear fair lady; forgive the winds which reproach and stir an unkindly brew out of mine kindly discourse. Fear I, Agony's brutal surge sends a second edge to thy already pierced knowledge.....Absent on his resurrection, and alas, distorted peace- (door swings open/burly man enters in a rough manner)

Burly Man: A magistrate's fortune is this- to treasure wages earned as some varied income -that require a commissioned quota as these thrice accounts bring addition to work and profit for him....You should be the penalty for her innocence, of which she is not party to a crime- that makes her the eventual effect of- her burden is by thy name and has her so the guilty crew; a husband dead by that name-a Laggett plague indeed! come you on some callous reasoning, to offend her further, beyond the poor trademark of thy tragic name....You see her courts! They are abandoned thus! Laggett beings, discharge thy remnants elsewhere- to other plains, to where thy stench has no longer the trespass on us; and ascend away!

Mecir: Token values what our current presence gives- if be widow Laggett's choice insistence for our depart, then our leave is so executed.

Mother Laggett: Peace rendered thy presentation to me- peace.

Mecir: And Peace roams freely on the alleys, and fields of our kindred industry? Tis the moon and sun play in opposite fields, yet what strife arises by it? to incorporate the completion of a day....They buck with different character, and live so in rule of separate countenances- though never they refute that passage...There! when round it comes in the eve, in holding loyalty to a fraction of a full day, the moon sits reposed on night's pearl occasion; and what doeth sun do but leave for it- to contain a resident portion on the morrow's new fancy! As if a bargain were pre-arranged, that one would descend upon the other's increase, and back again. Here it fellow- one who contends on our spot discussion, in a mangled faith this kindred fold is not of unity- Our relative transaction is of this- in hand in hand, though of unlevel measures- are we like where the sun reconciles a moon's depart, in light; and moon shadows light till its fraction time imports a night again- all for the transaction of LIFE!- You would cease it? For with one, and in the absence of the other- it cannot be.....For what valued time is most? Eh? The first or last? Or does an answer sprawl some ill-residue which cannot respond.....I say the last and shall forever more. We come as three, in the night hours of thy mistress' mourning, lest dawn supplicates again, like a pre-mature birth, and steals a percentage of what it does not correctly own...Our time, in brief establishment, is that sister moon, and need not be cut away in value or proportion, nor length- by aggression of Sun's brother.(he looks stern at man behind them) The son's to her brother, are we, and shalt comfort her loss as ours.

Mother Laggett: Let us alone- that speak we of private matters, privately so. (she instructs this man servant- he leaves them alone to counsel)

Father Raskhar: Is wisdom in thy instruction- and discretion, a better thought for our event?

Mother Laggett: Worn am I, churchly Father, on this frequent deluge- at my point of disillusionment; whence a word is but a fragment of no meaning at all, but sticks at me as were the plundering of mine soul ,and thus leave me the empty soul I am...I sanction the suffering of every clot and pinted blood which surfaces and fastens the heart into discord- feeding me graver discord if thy persist on....It severs the product blood lines coldly from these two young lad's flow Father; of that you would be sure privy to...What is thy bidding? (he comes close/hesitates/ speaks for her private discourse)


The selected passage is a dialogue between three characters - Mecir, Aldercane, and Father Raskhar - as they approach Widow Laggett's home to inform her of her son's death. The passage is from Act 1 Scene 2 and spans pages 13 through 17. The scene is set on a path leading to Widow Laggett's home, which is currently in mourning over the death of the elder Laggett. The grass is overgrown, and the lawns are nearly unkempt as they approach the grounds.

The passage showcases the author's unique writing style, characterized by a combination of archaic language and poetic expressions. The language is elevated, almost Shakespearean, with words like "betwixt," "whil'st," and "methinks" used to add a touch of antiquity to the scene. The characters' speech is filled with imagery and symbolism, making the dialogue seem like a poem at times.

The writing is also marked by a strong emphasis on the characters' movement and actions, which help to bring the scene to life. The characters' physical actions are described in detail, such as when they knock on Widow Laggett's door or when she appears from the staircase. These actions are described in a way that creates a vivid mental picture for the reader, making the scene seem more tangible.
The composition of the passage is well-structured, with the dialogue flowing smoothly from one character to the next. Each character has a distinct voice, and their speech patterns are consistent throughout the scene. The author also employs a variety of sentence structures, from longer, more complex sentences to short, choppy ones, to add rhythm and pacing to the scene.

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