Plays Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

This play relates the tale of Oedipus, the King of Thebes, who is looking into the execution of King Laius, his forebear.

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 [...]

One of the most remarkable plays by Guan Han-qing is Rescuing One of the Girls in which he celebrates the life and realities as faced by the courtesan community and the commodification of human relations."A [...]

The scenario calls for the need to investigate the villagers on issues pertaining to witchcraft, a take that finds many of them victims of the evil doing ready to be judged. First, the plot of [...]

While The government is the system that makes laws and ensures that they are followed, it is the person who wields power who is responsible for the equality and impartiality of its enforcement.

The last monologue of Oedipus in the play reveals his profound love for his children mixed with a sense of shame for the way they came into the world. In his final addresses to his [...]

Through the external conflicts between Jack and Algernon's opposing beliefs of love and honesty, their continuous disagreements about marriage and romance, and the fixation of the name Earnest between the men and their love interests, [...]

It is also quite possible for us to say that there is a certain inconsistency in the actions of the chorus.

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 [...]

These are the problems we are going to discuss in the current essay, and we are going to address for help with it such masterpieces of literature as the play "Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark" [...]

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.

For the period of the play, the theme of inequality is generally relevant and is reflected a greater extent in Shakespeare's works.

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 [...]

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.

With consideration of critical responses, use of language and structure, and through a close analysis of Hamlet's soliloquies, the role of Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet in shaping the enduring power of the text is appreciated [...]

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.

At the start of the play, he was not aware that he had slept with his mother or that he had murdered his father.

"A Raisin in the Sun" is a play in three acts whose action unfolds sometime between the end of World War II and the 1950s.

The foregoing discussion indicates Soyinka's portrayal of the confluence of Western and Yoruba values and interests through the experiences of Pilkings, Jane, Elesin, and Olunde.

The grief that Hamlet feels at the death of his father is tempered by a Claudius's statement to him that grief is 'unmanly.' He also associates women with deception beginning with his mother with whom [...]

The revelation of her husband's true character and perspective on life causes Nora's disillusionment with her relationship and the institution of marriage in general.

She is ready to kill in revenge for her father's death. On the contrary, she intends to kill her mother for killing Agamemnon, her father.

Debusscher, in this respect states that, the mention of "a double life," could be the mask that Tom Wingfield wears to meet the world, in particular the "world of his mother and that of the [...]

Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman relies on the real incident about the man who prepares to commit ritual suicide and accompany the deceased king to the afterlife. The connection between the world [...]

The very reason that made me write about this character was how he is depicted as a hero in the opening pages of the play, and only to learn how weak he is from his [...]

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 [...]

Apart from that, one can mention that addiction is depicted as a force that ruins the family of the characters. This is one of the points that should be distinguished.

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 was an essential part of Ibsen's dramatic talent that he embodied the problems and conflicts of his own personality in the characters of his plays.

But the gentlemen who are actually supposed to find out the motive and solve the case are not able to succeed in reaching the depth of the matter, as they lack the sympathetic view which [...]

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 [...]

In the end, he comes to the conclusion that this obscurity is the reason people do not want to die and prefer to lead the lives full of suffering.

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 [...]

In an introduction to The Tempest, Virginia Vaughan, and Alden Vaughan explore the theme of semantic similarity between Shakespeare and Virgil's plays even to a further extent: "Shakespeare's play is an imitation of the main [...]

It is necessary to tackle the background of the creation and the function of ancient Greek comedy on the whole. The sexual content of the play is connected with the Peloponnesian war.

It is possible that her condition is caused by psychosomatic, as a result of reading news about Kristallnacht, or the anti-Jewish pogroms also known as 'the Night of Broken Glass.' In the play, the author [...]

Through the drama, it is possible to see the attitude of the author to the issue as well as her views since her literature presents her feelings and her opinion on the sensitive social matters.

As the events unfold and Jocasta senses that Oedipus is indeed her son, she begs him to drop the matter but he decides to have none of this. This leads to the death of Jocasta [...]

Initially, the themes and scenes of the play were designed for staging at the Shakespeare theatre, and the costumes and the actors' play were supposed to evoke awe for the rich life of medieval nobles.

He is maybe a bit spoiled and used to getting his own way, but he knows he has a duty to the state and to his family and he knows he is destined to someday [...]

By depicting the play as a failure of artistic representation, Pirandello captures the imaginations of the audience and highlights the mental states of the time.

However, one of the major concerns of the play is the American system and capitalism, or rather the back side of it. Thus, the plot of the play helps the author to convey his idea [...]

The plays interweaves Christ's crucifixion with the picture of a bubbling crucible in it a man and a society: the predicament of arriving to the right choice of morality and the inevitability of attaining redemption [...]

However, as levelheaded as she is, she still has a dream of her own. Beneatha's dream of becoming a doctor defines the character's main decisions, making her more vulnerable and relatable.

A sense of entitlement can arise from the way a person is treated or from their temperament and as such, it is a dangerous attitude to acquire or encourage because it may lead to disparaging [...]

People in the Oedipus play lived in the dark of the unknown meaning of the riddle; until Oedipus answered the riddle.

As Ben-Zvi asserts, "the concerns of the women are considered little or silly and insignificant and this is the most important reason for the men's comments about them.

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.

In the play, the author creates the unity of setting so as to underscore the feeling that the main heroine Nora is the prisoner of her life.

It is important to note that the topic of deception and self-deception in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is of paramount criticality in order to understand the underlying message and characters' actions.

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.

He, as Oedipus, felt unique and able to do what he wanted, which gave him a false idea of his position in the world. The character is not aware of his vices, which lead him [...]

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.

Both works have similar motifs and are using the same means of helping to deeper understanding the nature of the protagonists and the drama of the life them.

The use of honorifics, stichomythia, and imagery is discussed, as well as the aside, the motif of spying, and the overall mood of the scene will be discussed and evaluated. The overall mood of the [...]

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 [...]

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.

The appearance of Angels on the stage is exciting - in the scenery of bookshelves, on both sides of the set contain niches with statues of angels, slots turn, and actors appear.

For Shakespeare, Brabantio's views are representative of the racial prejudice of the society in general, rather than of his personal feelings towards the protagonist. On the other hand, Othello's story is cohesive and believable; he [...]

Since he has alienated himself from all the other characters, whatever unfortunate happens to him in the course of the play is a source of humor for the audience.

The pride of Oedipus is not unfounded, as he is very clever, but he fails to give credit to the gods and the people around him as if he is the only source of wisdom.

This paper focuses on the setting in the works A Doll's House and The Handmaid's Tale and its impact on the characters and the author's context through the prism of the chosen historical periods, culture, [...]

Pinter exemplifies the existential view of the absurd and the non-existence in The Dumb Waiter in the same manner as that employed in Waiting for Godot by Beckett.

Despite Troy's accusations that his father was wicked and the devil, his father has continued to beat him brutally. His isolation from his father shaped Troy's view of manhood after the violence and betrayal of [...]

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.

Oedipus's urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the plague leads him to vow to do everything in his power to find the murderer of Laius.'The only way of deliverance from our plague is [...]

It takes a short time to relax with the switching of scenes, but it is eerie to watch the scene unfold and realize that you could have been in the same situation.

The cruel persecution of minorities and the interference of the state in the individual's conscience became the key concerns of Miller's criticism of this people's actions and beliefs.

Not only the figures of Pyramus and Thisbe were borrowed by Shakespeare from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to create protagonists for his famous "A Midsummer's Night Dream", but the English genius was also parodying both manner and [...]

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

Through their portrayal in the play, the accused witches have become powerful symbols of strength and resistance for women who want to take a stand against corruption and injustice.

He does not seek to seize the treasure his intention is only to deprive the possessor of the treasure of pleasure. A cynic to the depths of his brain, he sees only the flipside in [...]

It is evident from Antigone's willingness to sacrifice her life that she is driven by the familial tie, namely, her profound love for her brother.

We are going to depict the marriage in Earnest as an option or a necessary "business" move in an aristocratic society using the prism of Wilde's point of view on Victorians era.

Medea felt Jason had betrayed her love for him and due to her desperate situation she was depressed and her normal thinking was affected that she started thinking of how she would revenge the man [...]

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the carnival elements in the play are widely discussed topics in the literary world. When analyzing the gradual development of the plot of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream [...]

It is one of the most poignant scenes of the modern stage, But there is another kind of music in The Glass Menagerie, as there is in most successful drama, and that is the underground [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In defense of his decision to remarry, Jason states that it would be better for all parties, including Medea and the children.

Marxist criticism helps to get insight into the relationships between individuals and social groups and to understand the historical, social, economic, and political context of the environment of the story and its influence on a [...]

Iago, a jealous man from the beginning of the play, pretends to befriend Othello and speaks to him about the danger of jealousy.

The suitors laughed and teased Telemachos of his struggles to defend the beggar. Odysseus simply examines the bow and one of the suitors mocks him saying he is a connoisseur.

Since Othello is dark-skinned, the society is against his marriage to the daughter of the senator of Venice. In summary, the play Othello is captivating and presents racism as it was.

Theseus- He is the Duke of Athens and is getting ready to marry Hippolyta at the beginning of the play. Lysander- He is Hermia's lover and in the end of the play, the two marry.

Hamlet decides to prove whether Claudius really killed his father and in act three, he uses the play "The Murder of Gonzago" to get the truth.

Even though the theme of love intends to represent happiness and peace, it cannot always be achieved in life because of the complexities of social lives and the pressure of relationships that individuals in the [...]

Besides, the inductive reasoning led Juror 8 to conclude that the witnesses' poor eyesight and physical health could not allow the witness to identify the boy on the train.

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 [...]

First and last he was a man of the theatre to whom the touchstone of success was the pleasure of the audience.

The play The Trojan Women, created by an ancient Greek playwright Euripides, is a great example of a tragedy that can be and was used to show the outcomes of the war in a general [...]

The main characters in the play, the Weston family, have outstanding personalities. Beverly Weston is the Father of the home.

Williams' view towards the ideas of illusion and reality works to highlight the fact that reality will always overcome fantasy and the two cannot coexist peacefully, and while we cannot completely admire Stanley in his [...]

The play is the people's voice, reflecting their aspirations and ideals."William Tell" was devoted to the theme of the revolt of foreigners, in which the motif of tyranny sounds with the same strength and conviction.

The most crucial element of the play is the climactic moment in which the truth about the tragic events that led to the loss of part of the family is revealed.

Bhardwaj's Maqbool is a great example of how the weather sets the tone for the story, it is not the backdrop in the film, but an active force expressing the psychological state of the characters.

Hossain's article explores the manifestations of the ideas of post-modernist feminism in the play through the analysis of the main character's development and the overall social order where women were subordinate to men.

Troy is a diligent African-American; he began his career as a garbage collector and eventually as a driver in the sanitation service.

As soon as it appears clear the fact that the play's author is engrossed in the action the audience experience the first display of tension.

The play takes place in Pittsburgh in the 1930s, but the rich history of the courageous characters is made relevant by a particular piano that is the object of contention.

Antigone strongly believes that the laws of Gods are higher than the laws of the state and that she does right by following the laws of the Gods.

For example, Hamlet believed that his mother was loyal to his father and to the kingdom, but he felt unhappy with how events unfolded when grieving.

The piano was used as a symbol of unity; thus, the author of the play used the story within the play to reflect the setting of the play.

Typically, 'the end of something means the onset of another.' Using this as a viewpoint that provides a lead to what Macbeth is all about, the fact that 'we will proceed no further in this [...]

With the help of locations, furniture, different subjects, which are rather important scenes of the play, the horrors of war, and importance of cooperation are emphasized.

The death of his father, the actions of his mother and his existing relationship with his uncle all have Hamlet confused regarding the true nature of the world.

In this essay, we are going to explore the following issues; first, whether, Oedipus can be perceived as a hero in the traditional meaning of this word, in other words, we have to answer the [...]

In addition, the play skillfully captures the relationship between the main characters and the main theme of each act, which I intend to transmit to the audience.

The portrayal of Faust is a new form of rebellion that presents a sense of apprehension to the reader. He signs a pact with the devil in order to pursue his goals.

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 [...]

The social environment of England at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was characterized by great attention to social class, citizens' jobs, and their reputation.

The character of Macbeth is used by Shakespeare to illustrate a man who lacks the strength of moral fiber under the affection of guilt and ambition.

As such, the theme of honor should be explained in the framework of the play Richard III and actions and motivations of its characters with regard to the historic background of the play.

The opening scene of the play 'The Importance of Being Earnest", the reader is introduced to highly stylized, exaggerated and unrealistic world.

For an individual to achieve the qualities of a tragic hero, his or her actions must be consistent. The qualities of a tragic hero are similar to the qualities exhibited by Oedipus.

It appears that there were two major prerequisites, which caused the first production of Miller's Death of as Salesman to end up being instantaneously referred to as nothing short of a revolutionary theatrical event - [...]

One day, while Oedipus was on his way, he had a dispute with the King of Thebes and unknown to him he killed him after having the argument.

She is obviously referring to the fact that Clay is a black man trying to behave as if he is a white man.

This happens when it influences the plot, the characterization in the play, and the play's mood, on top of expressing themes that could be termed to be the main themes.

The theme of this story was to address issues that were affecting the people of Thebes during this time and even in times to come.