" Valentine:…..till there's no time left. That's what time means. Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore." Discuss the importance of knowledge within Arcadia in light of the above quotation. Knowledge is of importance to all of the characters in Arcadia, the pursuit of which lies at the root of many of their actions. Although their motives may be the same, …showed first 75 words of 2099 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2099 total…insignificance of the knowledge we set out to find. The importance of knowledge itself, rather than the search for it, is revealed very briefly in the play, and is contained in the words of Bernard: "If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much" (61). More than any other type of knowledge, this seems to provide a limitless supply, and in keeping with the definition, our quest for it duly ends upo! n our deathbed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**