Dana's Proposal for Unit 3

Dana Diederich

New Millennium Studies

Unit 3 Project Proposal 

11.10.08

                            For the unit three project I plan on writing a a series of monologues touching on ethical issues. The message of the each monologue will be on but not limited to the choices and thoughts facing people through out history. They will relate and touch on the subjects of abortion, race, drugs, mental health and religion. My goal would be to create some kind of play-write with the collaboration of famous monologues from movies and other plays and famous speeches throughout history. Together I believe I could show each monologue in a truer state relating to some kind of historic event or popular movie of the time. But to show also over a period of time that society in some way still faces the same ethical dilemmas just maybe in a new light. That even though times have changes somethings and ideas still exist in this world.

               The meaning I’m hoping to covey from each monologue is to simply show a real situation with real thoughts and people that they where inspired by. I want the audience to see and understand the hard decisions and the two sided views that come from them. I want the audience to see and hear the reasoning behind choices and what motivates choices of ethics. I don’t ever really want the monologues to straight up explain the ethical dilemma the person is facing but to just see a character dealing with something in their lives.

                  I’m hoping I can interview real people who have faced some very hard ethical dilemmas and be inspired by their experiences to write. I also will use some of the things I have encountered in my life as inspiration. The one thing I hope this doesn’t turn into is some after school special on the dangers of life with stereotypes and informational packet after the viewing.