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This essay is in response to the prompt: ‘In Louis Nowra’s Cosi, the characters are just “normal people who have done extraordinary things”. To what extent do you agree?’
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Confronted by the exuberant Roy, the overtly lascivious Doug, and the infatuated Cherry, twenty-one year old university graduate Lewis who is commissioned to direct “Cosi” as a form of therapy for a group of mental patients, is initially “flummoxed” and overwhelmed. It is the extreme displays of behavior that prove challenging for Lewis initially as he attempts to comprehend the environment of the asylum. Louis Nowra’s Cosi, explores the lives of people whose inability to regulate their behavior or reflect on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of their actions, make it difficult for them to act in a socially acceptable manner. Those who can understand their relationships with the external world seem to be most capable of adjusting to it, whilst those who fail to recognise this relationship, precariously hover on the verge of madness.
