Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 3. (ANNIE is now alone on the stage. She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell,
impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield. All that remains is a stand with a basin of
water)
How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?
The stage directions show Annie's manner of speaking.
The stage directions illustrate the appearance of the room.
The stage directions reveal the historical time period.
The stage directions describe how characters react to Annie.

Stage directions are the director's visualization of what should happen in the stage.

Explanation:

Stage directions let the actors or the readers know where they should be on stage. There are specific directions such as center stage, downstage left, upstage right, etc. Stage directions can also help in setting the emotional tone, rhythm, and mood of the play for the audience to capture the message and/or meta-message of the play. For the actor/reader, the stage directions can also help him/her in determining subtexts of his/her dialogues.

In the example given, the reader knows what ANNIE should do (i.e., turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell) or what emotions need to convey (i.e., impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield.).

When you combine both the actions and the emotions essential for the play, a powerful message or a metaphor will be delivered (i.e., All that remains is a stand with a basin of water) that will have a significant impact on the audience.

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explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).