When doing research on the world of the play, look for information about: 1  economic environment--class, wealth and poverty. 2  political environment--the relationship of the characters to the form of government under which they live. 3  social environment--the mores and social institutions under which the characters live.
A meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river. A meander forms when moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its valley, and the inner part of the river has less energy and deposits silt. stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake forms.
Rivers flowing over gentle slopes erode the sides of their channels more than the bottom. Large curves, called meanders, form because of erosion and deposition by the moving water. The curves are called meanders because they slowly âwanderâ over the land. You can see how this happens in Figure below and at the link below.