Editing Arcadia (play) (section)

==Style==
Jim Hunter writes that ''Arcadia'' is a relatively [[Realism (theatre)|realistic]] play, compared to Stoppard's other works, though the realism is "much enhanced and teased about by the alternation of two eras".<ref>{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=Jim|title=Tom Stoppard|publisher=Faber|location=London|year=2000|series=Faber Critical Guides|page=155|chapter=Arcadia|isbn=0-571-19782-5}}</ref> The setting and characters are true-to-life, without being archetypal. It is [[Comprehension (logic)|comprehensible]]: the plot is both logical and probable, following events in a linear fashion.  ''Arcadia'''s major deviation from realism, of course, is in having two plotlines that are linear and parallel. Thus we see Thomasina deriving her mathematical equations to describe the forms of nature;{{sfn|Stoppard|1993|p=49}} we later see Val, with his computer, [[Graph of a function|plotting]] them to produce the image of a leaf.{{sfn|Stoppard|1993|p=62}}