Dramatic Literature Essay Examples and Topics

Therefore, the tragic hero character is manifested at the end of the play where Faustus pleads with God to forgive him and liberate him from the hand of the devil.

Another unforeseen event in the story, a somehow sad one, is the quick transition of the story of Certainly-Mary in her young days and her relations with the Couter to the one of her in [...]

The title of the story does justice to the theme of the story, which is of loneliness, misery, and the need to communicate one's feelings.

Their experience at the concentration camp changes the relationship between son and father, and the despicable treatment by the Nazis helps Eliezer and his father develop a strong connection.

The writer takes the reader through the life of these characters and in particular, the poor family of Loisel and the rich family of Forestier.

He also pretended to be a beggar to test the loyalty of others and to devise his plan of overthrowing the other suitors.

First, Hughes claims that he developed the plot of this play, did some characterizations and dialogues, whereas Hurston was supposed to recreate the atmosphere of Southern life as the action of Mule Bone took place [...]

The opening of the poem confirms this when Beowulf has to travel all the way to Denmark to set the Danes free of the monster.

Defamiliarization is one of the helpful stylistic techniques of such kind, and this essay shall analyze examples of defamiliarization and the benefits of its usage.

The theme of morality and earnestness is the core element of this play. The author's use of the name Earnest is another way of conveying the issue of moral standards and behavior.

In the words of her brother: "...in the eyes of others strangers she's terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside [...]

The main differences between tragedy and comedy are in their content and the effect they produce on the audience; Greeks used these literary forms as the embodiment of their faith, history, and culture; they are [...]

In the lead-up to the passage to be analyzed, Iago has tried to turn Brabantio, Desdemona's father, against Othello by letting him know his daughter is "making the beast with two backs" with the Moor.

Since Basil is the one to introduce the audience to Dorian by describing him in detail, it is only natural to start the assessment of Dorian's relationships with other characters wit.

The context in which the book is written is of essence as it helps in connecting the ideas presented by the author as well as the opinions and critics provided by other authors in regard [...]

Forestier, rarely valued the beauty in her since she considered the dress and the necklace as the major contributing factors to the appealing appearance. The pride and vanity in her result to a life full [...]

According to Aristotle, the tragic error is the main manifestation of a tragic hero and it sets out the basis of his fate.

In his turn, Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, is a character who would never commit crimes and cruelty to admire the results of villainous actions.

Thus, it is no wonder that the author uses the uses the imagery of the moon in order to explore the mental state of the main character in situations that she encounters in her life.

The governess assumes that this man should be concerned about Miles and she vows to keep a close eye to the kids.

He only joins the conversation to let Robert know that he is still in the room and not upset his wife.

4 The political wrangles permeated the Empires, the Kingdoms, and the Italian States, when the French crown and the Roman Catholic political leaders disagreed on the location of the pope offices.

The question of this fringe helps to emphasize the problem of the lovers' separation."The separation of the soul from the body, and the separation of lovers from each other, is not an ending but the [...]

Says William von Humboldt of the Agamemnon, and his remarks might be applied to the entire trilogy: "Among all the products of the Greek stage none can compare with it in tragic power; no other [...]

There is nothing ethical in Malcolm's urgings in his overt and covert 'call to arms' though he cleverly covers up by giving a choice of either using the 'Ballot' or the 'Bullet' when he actually [...]

Shakespeare's themes are eternal, and his accurate portrayal of people's motivations and feelings offers an understanding of human nature and behavior. Shakespeare created hundreds of new words, phrases, ideas, and grammatical structures for the English [...]

Their determination and courage, responsibility and sanity assist Hamlet in his striving to act for the good of his people and the state.

For example, Sarty feels that he cannot keep hiding from the law and the wrath of his neighbors in the rest of his life.

He innovatively concentrated on the best techniques of governance and holding up to the noble principalities in the first eleven chapters of the book.

The book describes the lives of three people: the narrator, her mother and her grandmother. At the time of her death, the author's grandmother talked about Cultural Revolution.

In chapter two of the book, Genji and his wife live in Sanjo at the house of his father- in law. This is an indicator of how the two individuals are obsessed with women as [...]

Somehow, I knew it was too late to help her."A perfect day for a car crash", I thought."It is a perfect day to do something good.

The first thing that has to be determined is the truth behind the claim that Hamlet saw the ghost of his departed father.

The meaning of those poem's two chapters is significant for understanding the author's intention and the aim of his writing. Moreover, it is essential in terms of the redemption and preparation of the protagonist to [...]

The former used to take the small Yunior to the places of his sexual affairs while the latter never felt shy when having sex with girls on the bed next to the one his younger [...]

As far as abuse of young girls and women is considered to be one of the key events the author highlights, one can probably conclude that family upbringing is the burning problem of the society [...]

Through an analysis of the main characters in the novel, Naoji and Kazuko, this paper attempts to provide an elaboration of what it means to be a "victim", and also to demonstrate a relationship of [...]

In the first place, Levin found that one of the major reasons why the Russian peasant did not want to invest their labor in their land was "due to the consciousness of his vocation to [...]

Raju uses Rosie, her lover to reach the final goal of his life through her art of dancing. Raju as a Sadhu is not suppose to work, but rather pray to God in order to [...]

In an analysis of Chekhov's first play the Seagull, Bloom views Chekhov's portrayal of the characters in the play as well as the overall script to be magnificently written the famous playwright.

He watches and describes the atmosphere of all-absorbing illusion in the society, drawing attention to the rights and destiny of a woman in it. The core of this illusion is a woman's position in society, [...]

The purpose of this paper is to find out what Willy believed to be the key to successful selling and to identify whether Willy fits the typical profile of a successful salesman as presented in [...]

Written immediately after the First World War, in 1915, Miller uses artistic skills to call for a reformation in the social lives of the Americans.

Shakespeare changes the content of the traditional sonnet in this particular poem by placing the focus on the true permanence of the image rather than the physical 'permanence' of the woman herself.

The wizard puts a curse on the ship of the King of Naples, and his retinue to crash off the island's shores in order to arrange the fate of his daughter Miranda.

However, Othello becomes a victim of the influence of his friend Iago, who is driven by his manipulative nature, envy, and inability to understand and rejoice in the happiness of others, from which the protagonist [...]

This essay will discuss the centrality of the author's decision to use the characters to display the story's moral, as well as the character's essential argument in the passage, the outcome of the character's action, [...]

The court delegated to the jury the task of determining whether or not the accused was guilty of murder and premeditated homicide accusations.

The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice is considered one of the most popular works of William Shakespeare. The young courtesan, Bianca, is presented in the play as the mistress of one of the [...]

The basic investigation that is undertaken in the literature review of these two plays is to pinpoint their relevance to society and their impact on the ways in which society came to experience a voice [...]

The focus on the fine details of the novel and how Capote structured the character of Holly Golightly is one of the article's strengths.

That is why it is interesting to compare the details of the two stories, and the peculiarities of both dramas' actions.

On top of this, Hamlet hopes that seeing a replay of the murder of his father would move the king's conscience to a point where he would be forced to admit his crime.

Concerning the outline of the paper, it consists of two major parts: the first one is devoted to "The Glass Menagerie," and the second one to "The Taming of the Shrew".

One of the first interactions between the couple in the story is when the woman compares the hills to 'white elephants'.

Losing her hair is a tragedy for a woman, and this symbol is also an implication of Emily's life tragedy as she loses her love and has a life of wasting. Also, Emily isolated herself [...]

However, the play causes people to reconsider the role of Judas in the death of Jesus and look at the matter from the different side.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the type of sales the main character was occupied with, to analyze social and economic peculiarities of the described period of time and to find out why [...]

The final trial of their love is when Benedick and Beatrice have to confess in public that they have fallen in love and buried their long-standing hatred.

The book essentially asks the question, 'What is normal, anyway?' Another question asked by the book one which the main character must grapple with is 'What is a good person?' At the onset of the [...]

Mitty also uses his authority as a commander to instruct his crew to an extent they term him as a man who fears nothing, not even hell, "The Old Man is not afraid of hell!" [...]

From the way she describes and interacts with the room, one can notice that she has a dislike and immense hatred towards the room she is confined in.

Tragic drama may be defined as a simulation of reality which appears to be somber, with an immerse magnitude, which is expressed to induce a sense of fear or pity with an embellishment of the [...]

The paper under analysis is based on the comparison of Othello by Shakespeare and A Raising in the Sun by Hansberry through the manifesting of the theme of the racial segregation and the nature of [...]

It is possible that the fence itself was not of crucial importance for the small and dirty backyard, but the project itself united the members of the family and revealed the differences in their life [...]

The fact that something wrong and evil will form part of Blanche's life is depicted in the beginning of the work by the mysterious expressions that compound the descriptions of Elysian Fields.

After his most convenient avenue of informing the masses about the dangers in the spa is disrupted by the mayor, the doctor decides to hold a public meeting to inform the people of the dangers [...]

There's no secret that nowadays film industry has become a powerful and influential money-making industry so, from my point of view, the contribution that the director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has made [...]

In the light of this statement, it should be emphasized that the real value of dramatic literature study is the research of the tendencies of the literary and theater development through the time.

She went to the extent of accusing that Shirley-T had no manners as she was sticking out the tongue at her in a horrible way. The Eudora also left her family to go and stay [...]

The main topic of the play "The Taming of the Shrew" is the taming of the character in the play named Katherine.

The author wants the reader to feel the wild beauty of the land. He suggests that the House of Representatives regards the Alaska landscape as a source of income, while he stresses the fragility of [...]

While in all of these cases the deaths are tragic and involve the protagonist, the reader is never left to side with the protagonist in the justification for their actions.

The recurring themes of Night, by Elie Wiesel reflect the poignant feelings of disgust of writer against mankind and gradually his loss of faith in God, helplessness and hopelessness of a child who entirely disgusts [...]

The author of the book employed certain aspects that are interesting in nature and this makes the story capture the minds and the hearts of the most audience.

Seneca describes the wedding in details and on this stage Medea already hates Creusa and Jason and starts thinking over her plans to take the revenge whereas in Euripides's Medea the scene with the wedding [...]

In Long day's Journey into Night, for the father and the two sons, it is a remoteness which annihilates all of them.

It is the suffering of the damned that links the human and the diabolic in Doctor Faustus, not the pain of hell-fire but spiritual pain.

Using the three female characters of Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca, Shakespeare gives us the common view of women through the eyes of Iago and the view of the nobility through the eyes of Brabantio, Desdemona's [...]

For the past few centuries, the rise of various movements have marked a certain change in the ideas and philosophies of man regarding the true nature of his existence, the pronounced inequalities of not only [...]

Jackie would, therefore, wrestle with this fact for the rest of her life. Jackie would hear the real voices of her mother, her dad, and her little brother screaming for help.

The family of Henrietta Lacks had to face the consequences of slavery and the outcomes of institutionalized racism. The formative influence of legal system on the lives of common people resulted in the number of [...]

But he is jolted by the coming of Macabea into his life and he is suddenly preoccupied with her obvious otherness, and because of her, the meaning of being, the existence of God and the [...]

Thus, I will consider the use of literary devices in American literature. I will also pay a lot of attention to the themes discussed in Arab-American and American literature.

First, the reader is introduced to Hatim as he is walking into Chez Nous, a famous club occupying one of the larger rooms in the lower floor of the Yacoubian building.

One of the most striking things about the fleeting emotions of the characters and the way in which Chang manages to capture these emotions is in how many contexts a simple smile is used.

The short story was published as part of Maupassant's "Les Soirees de Medan" short story collection."Boule de Suif" was published in 1880, the period after the French were defeated in the Franco-Prussian War."Boule de Suif" [...]

The two characters' attitude towards their background is also different as Ramon is proud of being Hispanic and he speaks Spanish with his wife when he pleads her to stay, "Si te vas me mato.

The author is trying to discourage laziness in the society, and the two are used to demonstrate the effect of idleness among active members of the society.

The reading of Jerzy Kosinski's novel The Painted Bird, of Isaac Babel's story The Death of Dolgushov, and the watching of 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire do confirm the soundness of Linsey's idea.

Thesis Statement Although the movie followed the plot of the book quite closely, it still failed to capture the originality of the novel, since it relied on the visual elements and on the thrill of [...]

Most of the themes are developed using symbolism; for instance, the Chinese restaurants menus' represent different times and experiences of the Chinese in the Diaspora.

His acceptance of the fact that he is aging leads him to change his perception in regards to the woman in order to find the true and only love.

On the one hand, the characters realize that they only have their lives to control and it becomes apparent that they could attempt to make the best out of it.

Ivan's life however, takes a different course after his wife Praskovya becomes pregnant and it is owing to this unexpected intervention of nature that Ivan realizes the disruption facing his smooth and decorous lifestyle.

However, one of the most specific elements that make the concept of forgetfulness more complicated is the selectivity, which presupposes that people remember certain events, which forgetting the ones that are supposed to be more [...]

In the story it is discovered that the creature does not understand the language spoken by the locals although it was suspected to be Latin, this gives a political dimension to it and as highlighted [...]

Speaking of the family, one can see the three distinct ideas in the book, which are: the family life, so settled and appeasing; the loss of the family and the unceasing pain that comes when [...]

Using the example of Victoire Simon, La Savage and basing the discussion on Bentham's aspects the problem of justifiable vengeance is going to be considered. In "Mother Savage", the author of the book Maupassant determines [...]

One of the most touching novels ever, the story of a young woman entering the world of different cultures, the world so splendid that it is almost blinding her, and her guide to this beautiful [...]

Is that the power of the true love that makes him act the way he does, teaching the young woman the way she can adapt to the European society, or is it his self-esteem that [...]

At the age of ten years, Ramana is subconsciously aware of the condition of his mum and the need for her to come home.

Being a member of the Theatricalists who disapproved the ideas of realists, Luigi intentionally alters the plot structure, the portrayal of the characters, the thematic development, the language as well as the portrayal of spectacle [...]

It is with profound easiness that the distinctive characteristics emerge, with the main objective of a central system of assessment for any actions taken by superiors over the subjects Brief Overview of the Story The [...]

Harper Lee explores a great number of themes in the first chapters of the novel, for example, integrity of a person and his/her ability contradict the norms, adopted in the community.

Despite her peculiar and authentic thinking, Offred's desire to get rid of her humiliating shackles is not strong enough the woman lingers, she is still hesitant.

The subject of the majority of books is the biography of Joan of Ark. She is a national heroin of France and one of the main saints of the Catholic Church.

Rieux, though a competent doctor and essentially kind hearted, exhibits a slightly annoyed air during the early days of the plague, and as the disease wears on, this annoyance graduates to full blown resentment."The whole [...]

In Duties of a working mother, Munawarr illustrate that taking proper care of the children is an obligation of the women.

Eventually, you find out that the world is not a desert with rare planets of different people colliding to push each other even further. There is very little that is needed to understand the interdependence [...]

He is not only responsible for his family and each member but he should also care about his clan and the reputation of this clan.

The author tries to achieve this purpose by describing the main character's relations with his family and his friends, on the one hand, and his servant Gerasim, on the other.