Plays Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

On the other hand, a flat character is an unprogressive minor character in a story that remains in the same position throughout the story.

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.

As DuBois is a female character, her tragedy is also to be seen as a result of her helplessness to transform her desires in a male-dominated world.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

In the play "The Crucible", Artur Miller raises the topic of Salem witch accusations taking place in Massachusetts during the end of the seventeenth century.

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

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.

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

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

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 [...]

The main conflict of the play consists of the friends' varying perceptions of the magic ball. She is motivated by her desire to prove the worthlessness of the toy to her friend.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 [...]

This paper will focus on the play's main points the author conveyed to the reader and the viewer and sociocultural issues of those times, just as those were represented 'in particular the uncommon length of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

To counter her fears, Amanda enrols Laura in a business school hoping that she would be stable; provide for her self and probably for the family.

The supernaturally manufactured predictions lure Macbeth and Banquo with the idea of power, leading Macbeth to plot the cruel murder of Duncan.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

However, in this play, we can be witnesses to a fact that all of the pain that King Lear had undergone can be cathartic.

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, [...]

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.

On the other hand, Sophocles, in the play "Oedipus the King," emphasizes on the value of the city in the speech of the king.

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.

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.

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.

The play consists of a number of interviews of the participants of the accident happened in the Crown Heights. The subject matter of Fires in the Mirror is the conflict between the Jewish community and [...]

Among them are the rhymes, the rhythm of the words, the interpolation of a chorus, the increasing complexity of the lines as the poem progresses, and the vivid and horrifying imagery.

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.

Hamlet, a Denmark Prince, is the main character in the play. In the climax of the play, Claudius appears to be responsible for the death of King Hamlet.

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 [...]

Therefore, through the reconnection of the paragraphs, the author enables the reader to conclude that the narrator could be famous if she had followed her mother's advice.

Hamlet considers the plan to disturb Claudius and convince the audience of his guilt distracting attention from prayer and confession. Such innovations permeate the entire text, which allows the reader to assert that Hamlet did [...]

The emotional and mental state of Avery, the only African-American character out of the three, is fairly obvious from the get-go when asked about why he is so depressed, the answer is: "Um.

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.

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.

To begin with, it is evident to the reader that the main character is overwhelmed by the grief and mourning of his father.

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.

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.

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.

Peters reveals and enriches itself throughout the play: initially embodying the quality of obedience, with time she demonstrates the power of observance and attention to small things and consequently achieves a triumph over the male [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

In its turn, this explains why, as opposed to what it happened to be the case with her mother, the Laura's sense of existential alienation has strongly defined tragic undertones to it.

However, the technique has been defended by some of the scholars who argue that Shakespeare's skill is to develop and emphasize the purpose of duality and dislocation in the play.

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.

In the preface to "Tartuffe", the author argues that the main task of comedy or art in general is to eradicate the vices of the society, including hypocrisy.

Of course, we find out that he does not want to talk to Oedipus, since he knows that the source of the pestilence is the king.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Thus, in the story, the main theme, which is the sacrificial role of female characters, is supported by the conflict of societal standards and personal intentions alongside symbolic elements.

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.

The story of the overthrow of the King of England Richard II by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, unfolds among monochrome ascetic scenery to the sound of music.

According to Karali, "The Phantom of the Opera shows the affective dimension of music that is felt at a corporeal level of experience," revealing the secret behind its influence on the observer's psyche.

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.

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 [...]

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 employs the traditional view of the woman as a means of illustrating its more dangerous elements through his portrayal of Ophelia in her innocence, the ease with which others use her, and the suspicion [...]

Out of his anger, he worries about the death of his father and the hasty marriage of his mother to his uncle.

Hamlet kills numerous characters in the play and this goes to show his excessive pride or in other words his sin of pride.

Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]

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.

The results of the work should also be considered important as it will try to explain the society in "The House of Bernarda Alba", and also Lorca's point of view.

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 [...]

The third grotesque view occurs {while Ruth is later dressing upstairs ostensibly to go with Teddy back to America} when Max and the others, realizing that Teddy's marriage to Ruth is in shambles, begin discussing [...]

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.

In particular, she considers her level of mathematical skills at the age of 25 as well as the confusion she endures after the death of her father as a possibility that she inherited her father's [...]

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.

They include Othello, who is the lead actor; Desdemona, Othello's wife; Cassio, Othello's lieutenant; and Iago a junior officer in the army.

None the less the Homeric world gives a glimpse of the noble men and women who live within that society, they appreciate and acknowledge the little favors and hospitality extended to them and in some [...]

Critics such as William Merritt Sale argue that Homer's purpose in creating the mythic poem of The Odyssey was to represent the inherent struggle of the human condition when faced with the choice between the [...]

Shakespeare uses this dream theme to bring out the comic nature of his play and ensure that the unusual happenings in the comedy serve to entertain the audience as opposed to depressing it.

Shakespeare has employed one of the literature elements by using major characters like, Othello, a hero and the head of armies, Desdemona, Othello's covert wife, Michael Cassio, Othello's deputy, Lago, ranked below the lieutenant, among [...]

If this is possible in the setting of the play, what important hints to the truth are we, the viewers, missing and overlooking in everyday life?

Othello is not perfect either and the reason he acts the way he acts is that he is jealous; not that Desdemona cannot match his 'principles'.

Deprived of his family and his past, he took root in a foreign country and adapted to the difficult conditions of life, just as Richard did.

Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night ties itself back to Aristotle through the philosopher's understanding of tragedy. Therefore, Long Day's Journey into Night is linked to Aristotle by representing certain aspects of the [...]

Reverting to the issue of who between the 2 is a tragic hero, it is important to note that the reason for the duo's demise has some moral and practical backing.

Much of the film's screenplay stays close to the original, and the characterizations are so similar that the film may at first seem a faithful adaptation of the play.

Therefore, the lightning of the set was the primary signal for all the location and mood changes, perfectly supplementing the play, and the characters.

That Prometheus did not always have a low opinion of Zeus is evident in that it was primarily through the help that Prometheus gave to Zeus that the latter was able to gain control of [...]

At the beginning of the play we see a very depressing room, and the disarray of the kitchen is one of the classic signs of depression.

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 [...]

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" [...]

Teiresias was from the city of Thebes and played a major role in the story of Oedipus; when Oedipus asked him how to lift the pestilence from Thebes, Teiresias replied that Oedipus was the cause [...]

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

He worships the goddess of "hunting and chastity, Artemis and ignores Aphrodite, the goddess of love". Hippolytus is the favorite of this goddess as he prefers hunting and staying chaste and rejects worshipping the goddess [...]

In his speech, he talks of the 'carnal, bloody and unnatural acts', basically he is referring to the killings that took place when his friend Hamlet tried to retaliate his father as well as the [...]

The themes and the underlying meanings of the poems encompass the problems of human existence, human feelings, desires, and even the world perception. The aubade is the kind of lyrics devoted to love and the [...]

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 [...]