Play versus Novel Analysis

The play is better than a novel. The play incorporates both audio and visual aspects of a story thus being a mix of linguistic and spectacular resources, in contrary the novel lacks these aspects that usually depend on the creativity or knowledge pool of the reader to conceptualize the writer’s idea, different readers reading a novel have different pictures on characters and plot

setting. By watching a play its most likely that audience has improved focus and concentration on the whole plot unlike reading a novel, by cognitive psychology concentrating on a novel will most likely lead to fantasy and a reader may deviate from the content. A play will usually improve social skills unlike a novel which is vocabulary based, interaction between actors is usually dialogue based and humor is expressed by facial expressions, tonal variation and response to stimuli.

The play incorporates scenic pertinent elements to reveal action, perceived setting of the story and the dress code relevant to time, lifestyle and the theme of the play, these aspects lack in a novel since they can rather be established by imagination by a reader. It’s most likely that the person watching a play will retain most of the content desired by the actor unlike a novel reader who may usually be limited by his scope of thinking. In children this is evidenced by their likelihood to recount movie events unlike a novel. People are likely to discuss a play later unlike a novel hence sharing and increasing the understanding unlike a novel, conversation enhances remembrance since when people talk about the past they are likely to retain it in memory since they fire the same neurons and reinforce the same connections. In a play characters sound differently thus giving a personal association to a character unlike a novel.