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    Stronetz, A Faithful Physician, Is Also Very Loyal To The Prince Demitri. The Kranitzki

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    The one act play "The Death Trap" follows Prince Dimitri of Kedaria who is being conspired against by Prince Karl and officers in his own Kranitzki Regiment. Knowing of the plot against his life, Prince Dimitri devises a clever plan with his loyal physician, Dr. Stronetz, to temporarily delay his assassination. It is revealed that Prince Dimitri is terminally ill, so he decides to get revenge on his enemies by poisoning them before taking his own life, thus overcoming his helplessness through intelligence and turning the tables on his assassins.

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    Stronetz, A Faithful Physician, Is Also Very Loyal To The Prince Demitri. The Kranitzki

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    The one act play "The Death Trap" follows Prince Dimitri of Kedaria who is being conspired against by Prince Karl and officers in his own Kranitzki Regiment. Knowing of the plot against his life, Prince Dimitri devises a clever plan with his loyal physician, Dr. Stronetz, to temporarily delay his assassination. It is revealed that Prince Dimitri is terminally ill, so he decides to get revenge on his enemies by poisoning them before taking his own life, thus overcoming his helplessness through intelligence and turning the tables on his assassins.

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    The one act play "The Death Trap" follows Prince Dimitri of Kedaria who is being conspired against by Prince Karl and officers in his own Kranitzki Regiment. Knowing of the plot against his life, Prince Dimitri devises a clever plan with his loyal physician, Dr. Stronetz, to temporarily delay his assassination. It is revealed that Prince Dimitri is terminally ill, so he decides to get revenge on his enemies by poisoning them before taking his own life, thus overcoming his helplessness through intelligence and turning the tables on his assassins.

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    Stronetz, A Faithful Physician, Is Also Very Loyal To The Prince Demitri. The Kranitzki

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    The one act play "The Death Trap" follows Prince Dimitri of Kedaria who is being conspired against by Prince Karl and officers in his own Kranitzki Regiment. Knowing of the plot against his life, Prince Dimitri devises a clever plan with his loyal physician, Dr. Stronetz, to temporarily delay his assassination. It is revealed that Prince Dimitri is terminally ill, so he decides to get revenge on his enemies by poisoning them before taking his own life, thus overcoming his helplessness through intelligence and turning the tables on his assassins.

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    The one act play “The Death Trap” revolves around the conspiracy against the reigning

    prince of Kedaria, prince Dimitri, who turns the table on his assassins at the end of the play.
    Prince in Dimitri, the young ruler of Kedaria, has rivalry with Prince Karl, who desired to
    capture the political power of Kedaria by murdering the reigning prince. So, Dimitri’s
    enemies hatch a plan to assassin him and they are waiting for the right moment to execute it.

    Three Military Regiments namely Andrieff Regiment, Lonyadi Regiment


    and Kranitzki Regiment guard the Prince Dimitri, the reigning Prince of Kedaria. Dr.
    Stronetz, a faithful physician, is also very loyal to the prince Demitri. The Kranitzki
    Regiment is being loyal to the enemy and the three officers of this Regiment, Colonel
    Girnitza, Major Vontieff and Captian Shultz are all set to murder Prince Dimitri as soon as
    the loyal Andrieff Regiment leaves from its duty. These officers of Kranitzki Regiment are
    disloyal to prince Dimitri but very loyal to Prince Karl, who is willing to kill prince Dimitri
    and want to become the king of Kedaria.

    When the play “The Death Trap” opens where three guards of Kranitazki Regiment are seen
    plotting the assassination of Prince Dimitri so that Prince Karl can ascend the throne. The
    conversation among the three disloyal guards reveals that they are openly conspire to murder
    the prince.  They are very aware that the Prince Dimitri is already suspecting them. Yet, they
    go ahead with murder plan because they are being backed by the political support of Prince
    Karl.

    Following the conversation between the Prince Dimitri and his loyal physician Dr. Stronetz,
    we get to know that Prince Dimitri came to power at his very young age when he did not
    know anything about the rules of governance or responsibility. This shows his helplessness,
    which is now an advantage to his enemies.

    Prince Dimitri is well aware that he is “trapped” and that his own guards are plotting to kill
    him. This is a painful realisation for him. He also knows very well that he would be killed at
    any moment as soon as his loyal Andrieff Regiment leaves. He has no weapons to defend
    himself. No one is allowed to see him except his friend and personal physician Dr. Stronetz.
    Out of kindness and loyalty Dr. Stonetz devices a clever plan as a physician. Instantly, he
    asks the Prince to remove his robes for a fake of physical examination, which will help him to
    fool the officers of the disloyal Kranitzki Regiment. His efforts are only temporarily delay the
    murder of the Prince. But this delay helps the Prince to take revenge on disloyal officers.

    However, the hard truth behind the physical examination of the Prince reveals that he is really
    suffering from an incurable heart disease. This is another shocking realization to the Prince.
    He decides to commit suicide instead of being killed in the hands of his disloyal guards. He
    requests Dr. Stronetz to provide him a phial of poison, which can kill him so that he can
    invite his death as a ruler without being killed. Dr. Strontez gives him a phial of poison. But
    as final act of revenge, when death is inevitable to him, the Prince Dimitri wants to die only
    after punishing his enemies. So he mixes the entire phial of poison in a bottle of wine and
    invites the three officers for a final drink.  He shares the poisoned wine after drinking it
    himself. It is a sight of pity for the Prince but at the same time he shows a clever act of
    revenge. The Prince thus overcomes his helplessness by his intelligence even though he
    cannot avoid his own death.

    Thus the title of the play “The Death Trap” projects how the Prince and his helplessness
    becomes the ‘death trap’ to the officers of Kranitzki Regiment as result to their disloyalty.

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