Plays Essay Examples and Topics

The tone of the Sonnet 18 is that of the romantic intimacy of a young man intrigued by a woman's beauty.

These include; the plantation along the beach and inside the sea, the animals, the waters and the people found in the beach.

Still, it is difficult to decide whether the author wants to satirize all the vices of the people and Egyptian people in particular or it is the bright example of the introduction of absurd in [...]

The conversation between Hamlet and his mother brings back Gertrude to her senses where she feels guilty and ashamed of her actions.

The betrayer, Macbeth betrays the King, friend and other subjects in the kingdom. However when Macbeth is told he has just been chosen as the Thane of Cawdor, scenes of the possibilities of him as [...]

These people noticed that the few people of the upper class were using the law and religion to their advantage, which led them to benefit more from the available resources as compared to the other [...]

From the interaction between John and Jane, the husband is a typical illustration of a spouse who has mastered the art of absolute control.

Shakespeare's use of allusion and metaphors in Hamlet is vital to creating the dramatic imagery surrounding the play and foreshadowing the extent of the growing conflict.

Claudius is successful in his ambition and Hamlet is left with the decision on whether or not to kill his uncle so as to avenge his father's death.

The swamp dweller "talks about the urban and remote society, the confrontations between the older and younger people, the battles between the old and the new in the society, love for modernism, the existence of [...]

It is quite comical that one of the conditions in the case of a default of the loan taken from the Jewish Shylock by Antonio is the repayment of the loan in form of one [...]

The play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe can be referred to the genre of the Morality Play because it uncovers the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.

In regards to this communication, the issue of romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is highlighted7. The concept of true love is no where to be seen in Romeo and Juliet's relationship.

Laurel is the hometown of Blanche DuBois. The lies of Blanche DuBois were concocted to win male suitors.

The Merchant of Venice is a play about a man who is wronged and almost destroyed by fortune, but then he realizes he has the power to influence his destiny.

The event that gives birth to his hatred is Gertrude's marriage to her brother-in-law Claudius very soon after the untimely death of her husband, King Hamlet.

As much as the tale is thought to a comic one, the events that place in this tale are not funny.

In the play, Othello strives to emphasize that his blackness is insignificant impediment and highlight the advantages of his origin revealing the positive features of his character and behavior.

Loureen is a victim of abuse, and the question of how to respond and react to it is posed within the play.

Othello leaves Venice in the company of his wife, Iago and Cassio and Desdemona's attendant known as Emilia. Othello's love for Desdemona is a major weakness that leads to his downfall.

The final part of the play shows some sort of fight for the "bench domination" which is started by Jerry and when he takes knife out of his pocket and tries to stick it into [...]

The scene that is the subject of this report refers to a scene in the play that takes place at the graveyard following the death of Ophelia.

The writer used the name of the play as the name of the main actor while other characters in the play helped in development of the predominant theme in the main character.

While the tale has various mythical and magical motifs in the form of Gods, Goddesses, nymphs, witches, and magic; one of the most interesting and a rather unusual aspect of the story was the astounding [...]

In the case of Hamlet, he surrenders his own life and future to the will of his father, albeit following significant hesitation, not to mention the passage of an entire play.

In the play, An Enemy of the People, Ibsen uses a realistic framework to articulate his ideas on the stage. The play A Taste of Honey is a representation of a Kitchen Sink realism play, [...]

It is the turn of the 20th century, and here we can see the role and position of women in society.

In Odyssey therefore, it is expected that the relationship of Odysseus and Telemachus is as admiring as it is; the father is proud of his son, who is courageous and the son is proud of [...]

The main features of the Renaissance culture which also determine the elements of the Renaissance literature are the philosophy of humanism, the secular character of the art pieces, and the orientation on the antique patterns.

I find the ghost one of my favorite because of the hope and information he gives Odysseus."The ghost reveals to Odysseus that Poseidon was busy punishing and killing the Achaeans ". From the encounter with [...]

King Lear and the other characters that were at fault in the beginning of the play are redeemed in the end by the tragic death of the most innocent character.

The first difference is that the movie has more sets compared to the consistent house-front used in the play. Characters occasionally enter the house in the movie compared to the play, which is acted at [...]

The following paper aims to analyze themes from the play, identify the connections to the concept of identity, and determine whether the reality they are dealing with offers them a possibility to live the American [...]

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, is a play focusing on the topic of the Salem witch of the last decade of the 1600s in Massachusetts.

In spite of the arrogance that led Oedipus to ignore the oracle and think that he could change things, Oedipus truly was a loyal king to his people and wanted the best for them.

However, in the second part of the play, when Gertrude faces the truth of her first husband's dead, she immediately stands a reformed character, sympathetic to Hamlet's cause.

Wright, as she was sleep, the women in this play suspect that Mrs. Wright's death in Trifles are similar to those, which surrounded the murder of Mr.

Thus, the play Romeo and Juliet demonstrates that fate is the invisible, unavoidable force behind the entirety of the human experience.

The presentation of the Ghost in the film builds the main theme of revenge and tragedy. Olivier shows that the Oedipus complex is a crucial aspect in understanding the play especially the character of Hamlet [...]

The advancement of art in the Greek cities cannot be compared to any in the other civilizations that existed at the time. Most of Sophocles' plays emphasize the tragedies of life and the pain inherent [...]

One of the main reasons for the emergence of such fusion is the desire to show the unique character of the psyche and, from the other hand to emphasize the fact that all people have [...]

The madness is connected to the trouble that befalls the King later in his helpless state as he faces all sorts of mistreatments from the two daughters whom he gives the mandate to run the [...]

It would be correct to add though that Cleopatra is the dominating presence in the play, however, Cleopatra, Antony and Enobarbus have tragic elements of grandeur, nobility, fateful misjudgments and a fall from the heights [...]

Willy has a distorted vision of the American Dream, and he has such blind faith in this inaccurate vision that it leads to his mental disturbance when he is not able to accept how the [...]

The film parallels Hamlet as the main characters in the play and the film are both princes, and the antagonists are uncles who murder their brothers to gain power.

This paper will argue that, although the concepts of hypocrisy, lying, and acting are brought up directly only a few times in Hamlet, the manifestations thereof can be found throughout the poem, the Dutch prince [...]

In addition, her mother kept the cause of the deaths of Rachel's father and brother secret. In essence, the play Rachel is educative and addresses some of the challenges people face in society.

It can therefore be justly concluded that Susan Glespell's 'Trifle' is indeed a feminist work and seeks to engage in feminist objectives through the plot and the characters.

An analysis of trends in tragedy from the time of Sophocles and Euripides to modern times is therefore important. This could explain the absence of features such as oracles and ghosts in modern tragedy.

Othello is one of the characters who have features in William Shakespeare's tragedy titled The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. It is clear to note that the tragedy that befell Othello was because [...]

In the play, the supernatural things are central to the plot of the play as they provide a basis for action as Shakespeare meant them to fit in putting the play together.

The properties of Othello are given to Cassio who also assumes position that had been held by Othello The downfall of Othello is evidenced by death of his wife, loss of property and his own [...]

However, the speech styles employed by these two characters are not similar but differ from each other in that the style employed by Brutus is one of oration, stoic and is simple and direct to [...]

The death of Hamlet as the play ends indicates that though he was the definite answer to all the questions before him as he faced death, he was not in any position to give any [...]

Athena also had to pour a sea fog around Odysseus to protect him, and then she assumed the shape of a little girl and showed him the way to the palace.

Some of the stories that the reader comes to know, about some people or events in the play, come inform of narrations from the minor characters. The minor characters give most of the information known [...]

The 16th century was a period of political conflict and corruption in England; the theme is presented through the statesman Thomas More who is considered to participate in the struggle between the state and the [...]

Examples of images used in the poem include "...my soul is white", in the first stanza, second line, the part which the author uses the words "...black as if bereaved of light" is also an [...]

The love of Juliet to Romeo at the early stages is described as the "bud love, expected to grow into a beauteous flower" when the two meet later.

Laius is the rule of Thebes; he learns from oracle that his son Oedipus will kill him and usurp his throne.

The supernatural was an aspect of the plot structure used to add tension and drama to the occurrences and situations and manifested in various ways. To conclude, the owl and raven were utilized as omens [...]

In the end, many of the characters' desires are shaped by social norms that are imposed on them, and while some characters choose to go along with society's expectations of them, others revolt and seek [...]

The main theme of the play under consideration is the importance to understand, accept and cherish our past, which is symbolized by the family heirloom piano.

The theme of transformation that is reflected in title and can be observed throughout the whole play is connected with to the play dependence on water.

He cares mostly about his money and reputation, and through his pressure and arrogance, he makes Nora believe that her life has to only be devoted to her husband and children.

The play effectively depicts the theme of civil disobedience through the personality of Antigone, who is willing to break the rules to satisfy her morals standards and conscience. Therefore, the author uses the characters of [...]

For instance, his works are very rich in the English language and are a good source of learning the language. The dramas are not in the same category as Shakespeare who is clearly in a [...]

By the end of the paper, the reader should be able to identify a strong correlation between Oedipus and the tragic hero outlined by Aristotle in the Poetics.

In other words, the play is about the Victorian morality and the constraints it imposes on the society. The play is also a double-edged criticism of the conventional preoccupations of the middle and upper middle [...]

Some of the most prominent themes in the story are the ideas of mutual forgiveness, people's motivation to be proactive and take risks, and their willingness to forgive and ask for forgiveness.

The role of women in the society of the 19th century is a rather controversial point for the discussion in literature because of the fact the end of the century can be characterized as the [...]

The primary themes of The Tempest discussed in this paper are power dynamics, colonialism, and the concept of illusion and reality.

Nonetheless, he goes on to murder the king and his character takes a turn for the worst as he kills the chamberlains who would give witness of the king's death and he claims he killed [...]

The self-contradiction implicit in this line demonstrates Miller's masterful use of indirect characterization to divulge Willy Loman's delusion, and ensuing nervous breakdown and suicide, over the course of the play.

In her play, Trifles, Glaspell uses two parts of the play, one distinctive narrative on men and the other on women, in order to trigger the reader into evaluating the value of both genders to [...]

In his play Othello, William Shakespeare also accentuates the meaning of minor characters and their actions for the development of the tragedy in Othello's life.

The plot of the tragedy of Sophocles is built on a chain of accidents, which are in fact the fatal will of the powerful gods.

As a result, the play depicts a family in which a son, Chris Keller, is dissatisfied with his father and unable to regard his father, Joe Keller, as a responsible citizen for the country to [...]

For instance, in Lorraine Hansberry's play Raisin in the Sun, the concept is shown via the manifestation of generational parity and its influence on the Youngers family's characters.

At the end of the play, Othello's realizes that his naivety and lack of confidences in his wife' innocence and fidelity.

The first script of the play was written and acted in French at the Royal Court Theatre. The title of the play is symbolic of the chess game.

In the environment of the contemporary culture, the scenario might seem surreal since it is placed in the setting of an ancient world, yet the fact that the play makes the foundation for the Western [...]

One of the main conditions according to which a daughter is going to be protected in the future is the strong assuredness that a daughter is in good and loving hands, protected like under the [...]

Throughout the story, there is a constant struggle of the growing Telemachus to imitate the actions of his father and then eventually become like him that he comes to an end of his journey.

The father is also a traitor preparing her daughter to be a killer and selling the life of his matrimonial wife.

He testified that he was not a member of the communist party and was allowed to return to Europe the next day. He did not like the bourgeois agenda and that was reflected in his [...]

For example, Banquo was given good news by the witches about the likelihood of his children becoming kings and yet he did not rush to murder as it's in the Macbeth's case.

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the playwriter uses art to fictionalize encounters of a delayed dream by a family; it is a supposition of the poem by Hughes.

Besides all differences between the three sons of Ephraim Cabot, the owner of a large and prosperous farm in New England, they have much in common, and this is hatred, resentment, and envy for their [...]

Choice of Fortinbras is an act to usurp his place as the rightful king and avenge for the injustice done to Fortinbras, as well as him. Another reason could be an act to reconcile with [...]

This passage is in the form of a dialogue between the two characters in the play. The above lines portray Othello as a victim of prejudice.

Most of the play is dedicated to investigating the nature of people's feelings, trying to "plant seeds" where nothing will be able to grow, becoming a metaphor for the life of the main character as [...]

Jim is Tom's friend and was in the same school as Laura, he is engaged and when he tells this to Laura on their first meeting after school, she is heartbroken because she loved him.

The struggle is betwixt his great affection for his boy and his finding the facts, and the mindset of his miserable upbringing by which the dad was normally a removed and an unreachable figure.

This shows that Desdemona has completely accepted and respected her role as a woman in the society; she is an obedient wife to Othello.

The film A Midsummer Night's Dream, although based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare, adopts a different approach to the storyline.

Whether or not Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's mother, was guilty of being part of the conspiracy that led to the murder of her husband, King Hamlet is debatable.

In fact, Penelope should be considered a hero as she manages to rule the kingdom, she is ready to sacrifice her entire life for the sake of her son, Telemachus, and she manages to remain [...]

From Freud's perspective, the characters' problems can be perceived as the result of a conflict between their superego, id and ego.

Though Rose plays the role of a housewife and recognizes Troy's leading role in the family, she is not portrayed as a weak woman unable to oppose her husband.

Being a good father and an excellent husband, Odysseus did everything he could to return home, however, there were a number of barriers, however, having returned home Odysseus killed all people who wanted evil to [...]

The prophecies persistently come to reality in play, which confirms that fate is the actual force in the realm of the play.

Hamlet does not follow his friend's caution and goes with the ghost, where he learns of his father's murder and swears to avenge him.

Thus, Jessie can be considered the most sympathetic character of the play since she was an outsider and a person with disabilities unable to live her life to its full extent; however, her disease is [...]

Racial discrimination is the main theme of the book, strongly reflecting the situation that prevailed during the 1950s in the United States, a time when the story's Younger family lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto.

Written in the 1960s, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an expansive, one-of-a-kind, and utterly honest depiction of a family life rife with disappointment. George and Martha's marriage defies the idealized American family.

King Hamlet's ghost then informs prince Hamlet of the person who killed him; consequently, Hamlet accepts the ghost's demands, swears his accomplices to secrecy and reveals to them his intention of killing the king to [...]

In the realm of the virtual world, Haikumom is a mentor that guides people throughout their journey of sobriety, as she is the administrator of the website and has been "clean" for nearly six years.

The focal point of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the characteristics of Creon and Antigone and compare and contrast their personalities in the image of the two famous comments by each of the [...]

In this paper, we are going to focus on the two basic literary devices used by the author which contribute to the in-depth understanding of the themes and motives of the play.

This paper analyses the position of a woman in society, the aspect of social life as well as the importance of responsibility in the drama A Doll's House.

Creativity in his works, Merchant of Venice and Hamlet, is portrayed by the manner he makes choice of characters, the way themes are tied up with stylistic language to reflect hidden meanings reflective of the [...]

The king is in conflict with himself. The king's behavior is in conflict with the character of Oedipus king.

The central conflict in the timeless Greek tragedy "Antigone" is a profound exploration of the tension between individual conscience and the dictates of public law.

Shakespeare portrays that in a world of complexity, instability, and unpredictability, people are struggling to make sense of the changes and to situate themselves within the new milieu.

When Hamlet learns in a dream that he is supposed to revenge the death of his father, he promises to do so "with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep [...]

The scene's underlying tension serves as a definitive source of Shakespeare's use of language to portray the specific mood, tone, and the character's intentions.

Like a girl with a missing link in her life, Ashbe is trying to fit in different aspects of her life by being wayward in her dealings and even justifies the wrongs she does.

One of the major points where Priestly portrays the theme of social responsibility is whereby Sheila feels a sense of duty when she realizes that she has a role to play in the death of [...]

The only character in the play to claim to have first-hand knowledge of the murder of Hamlet's father and who speaks aloud about them to another character is the ghost of Hamlet's father.