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genus Plautus, A preoccupied House In the play, Plautus, A Haunted House leaves off with a young man, Philolaches, whose his mother has been away from town, has been partying and has been wasting his family fortune on his mistress. composition the son is in no condition to utter to his father due to being intoxicated, his slave, Tranio musters up with a scheme to deceive the old man from spying his son from partying. Tranio, redefined his role as a bearded darnel in the play and along with on the whole his personal magnetism made this into a countless comedy play.In the final examination scene of The Haunted House, Plautus demonstrate the personal identity is peck by representing the character types and personality and having them sustain their identity while everyone else goes back to perspective quos. Plautus, start of the play by introducing the characters types and their personality to the audience. He demonstrates how identity is destiny and how it relates to the characters in the play. To define identity is destiny it means that each character is given a role, and at the barricade of the play, the character animations their identity and remain the same.What this mean is Philolaches plays the controlling guy and Tranio plays the smart cagy slave. Even though this was their identity in the etymon, at the end of the play their identity didnt convert at all. In the scene where Philolaches had his friend Callidamates come up to his father so that he doesnt have to face him and beg for his forgiveness. Callidamates said, You know healthful that Im the very closest friend your son has got. Since hes also ashamed to set a single al-Qaida in sight of you, knowing that you know all thats been done, he came and asked my help.Now I beg of you, forgive his early days and folly-hes your son. This scene shows that even though Philolaches is a foul up wealthy kid, it shows that his identity will remain the same. Hes always going to be the irr esponsible young man who asked Tranio and CALLIDAMATES to talked to his father because he was terrified to get punished by his father. At the end of the scene, Plautus had the characters returned to their status quo. To exercise the status quo is to keep the things the way they presently are.After all the tragedy that happened, at the end of the scene everyone went back to normal. In the beginning of the scene it talks about the identity of the characters and that no matter what the situation was, the character would still maintain their own identity. The phase Identity is destiny and status quos demonstrate that no matter what the character did in the play, their personality and their role will remain the same. Plautus did a great job of defining the characters traits and imputed comic material to his play.