Plays Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

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.

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.

Notably, he uses religion as the major instrument of his influence as it is easy to become a mentor and guide through the hazards of the world.

The exploration of the difficulties that occur during the transition from adolescence to adulthood is the key message of the play.

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

The play deals with the genius persons of the world and it relates genius convincingly with the world of madness. Then the development of schizophrenia in Nash, which is "a severe mental disorder that distorts [...]

The Renaissance in Italy was a time in which historians and writers were most active, sparking a new wave of literacy in the Italian world, said to be the father of Renaissance Europe.

Moreover, the 20th and the 21st century are characterized by the emergence of numerous conflicts that altered the world and resulted in the appearance of shifts in people's mentalities.

First, it dwells upon the gender differences that existed at the time of the play. The women in the play were united by the feeling of isolation and alienation from other women and from society [...]

At the moment of the initially rehearsed interpretation of The Cherry Pickers, Gilbert was named the first Indigenous dramatist to have his play performed.

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 paper will not attempt and sketch the way the signs or symptoms of depression/melancholia play a part in the way Shakespeare's period or culture concerning depression/melancholia, but in its place portrays the way particular [...]

In the play, Shylock, or as he is also referred to Shylock the Jew, is a Jewish usurer in the city of Venice.

This play is reflective of the cultural context of the time in many ways. The portrayal of men in this play is undoubtedly negative.

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.

At the close of the chapter, Greenblatt denotes that the hugely documented visit by the Queen to the region played a noteworthy function in Shakespeare's early advance.

For instance, the journey of Odysseus back to Ithaca feature him as an important figure to Calypso therefore helping in building up the story as his return remains the center of all agony that begets [...]

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.

Othello, an eloquent and physically fit person is considered as the protagonist and hero of the play; however, in spite of his elevated status, he is nonetheless an easy prey to insecurities due to his [...]

On top of this, Laertes wants to revenge the insanity and subsequent death of his sister, which he blames on Hamlet.

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 [...]

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'.

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.

It depicts female characters in a state of submission and obedience and shows the disbalance in the distribution of power between men and women.

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.

The first one is the plot of the play that lasts from the beginning till the scene when Hamlet meets the ghost of his father.

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 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.

Characters and the plot of The Antigone are highlighted in the play for resolving the problem of morale and pride in human beings and the counter-reaction of gods in response.

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 controversy between the adherence to the state law and the moral norms maintains the conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles' play.

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 [...]

The play is narrated by two voices, the voice of the blind Captain Cat as they all inform the audience of the dreams and lives of people from a small town as viewed by the [...]

There are four most remarkable ridiculous plot points in the story; they can be observed in the relationships between Masha and Kulygin, the situation when Irina philosophizes on the sense of life, the character of [...]

The core concept of revenge in Hamlet, Shakespeare's play, is the hesitation of the main character and his doubt moral and philosophical maxims in the whole world; the main idea of the play may be [...]

In this case, Jim was responsible to his family and also to the whole society in terms of medicines but not for material gain.

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.

O'Neill depicts that one of the many sins these women committed is to have built up the image of prostitutes as romantic and sensational, instead of showing these women as they really are, unfortunate and [...]

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.

However, the existence of the canary is itself a mystery as no one can guarantee that anyone has actually seen the bird at all. The canary is a metaphor by itself, and it symbolized the [...]

He is some kind of Robin Hood of the times when Plautus lived."As in both the plays of Aristophanes and Mevander, the Roman playwright Plautus addresses the issue of class consciousness and status in his [...]

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 [...]

The main objective of the play "A Doll's House" is to advocate for the ability of each individual in making decisions that are not based on the influences of other persons around him or her. [...]

Despite the common beliefs concerning the existence of ghosts, it seems that the ghost's presence is still supported by the testimonies of all characters in the story, including Horatio, Francisco, and the protagonist himself.

Rather than invoking the idea of creation, Wilder seems to describe the role of birth to the continuation of generations and the role that physicians play in conserving human values. In this case, Wilder wanted [...]

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

The figure of Eve Ensler exemplifies the validity of this idea perfectly well, because it is largely on the account of a public controversy, sparked by her play The vagina monologues, that the notion of [...]

When looking at the relationship between the monstrous and the human in Odyssey, it can be seen that monsters represent, in many instances, the darker side of humanity.

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

Firs, as one of the main characters depicts various stages of the play's development, his fate is associated with the fate of the orchard and the attitude of people to his is almost the same [...]

The aim of this essay is to analyze Jack Worthing, one of the main characters of the play, which the author represented as the typical wealthy Englishman of Victorian epoch.

The three questions that the theatre asks are: what the play is, why it is the way it is and what the characters learn during the play?

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.

The character of Caliban is an opposition to that of Ariel, the other servant of prospero, in that Caliban is a human figure while Ariel is a spirit.

In a typical way of people in modern world, Oedipus goes on to question the credibility of the Oracle. Oedipus has to pay for all his sins and face humiliation in front of the very [...]

The play explores the idea of fidelity and faithfulness in a marriage, the relationship between Richard and Robert, and between Richard and Bertha.

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 [...]

It is hard to disagree that different historical and cultural contexts in literary works allow for a better understanding of the meanings and plots implied by the authors.

This particular reading of the play implies that Shakespeare was deliberately expressing a view of colonialism in the New World in the guise of Prospero the magician, usurping Caliban, the slave.

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.

It is important to note that the play Magic 8 Ball by Kimberly Pau is about two girls, Melissa and Elizabeth, who use the ball to ask personal questions about their future. It is evident [...]

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.

The story that best exemplifies the traits of the character at the beginning of the play is the opportunity to sell the house.

Speaking of racism as a possible motivation for Iago's behavior, it is worth noting that it is not the primary and only source of its manifestation.

What is more, he is not satisfied with all aspects of the love story that happened years ago, and Gallimard desperately attempts to alter the events in his imagination.

It is true because aristocrats and other representatives of the upper classes had specific obligations to society, and this was a burden to Algernon and Jack.

The tragedy of Hamlet addresses eternal problems: the incompatibility of lofty ideals and dreams with reality, the mismatch between the goals and the means of achieving them, and the role of the individual in history.

Hamlet's cynicism, as well as his sense of meaning, distinguish him as a uniquely contemporary figure and a watershed moment in the theatrical past.

For instance, the moment that originates Faustus' transition into an individual led by personal satisfaction rather than universal knowledge occurs in Scene VII, "To see the Pope and manner of his court," when Faustus performs [...]

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 [...]

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 writer psychologically tries to influence the mind of the reader creating an unstable image of the place that he is describing and leaving some parts to the imagination.

Othello, a husband to Desdemona realizes later that Desdemona was a faithful and loving woman. Othello is determined to kill her however her beauty and innocent appearance restrict Othello.

One of the features of comedy of identity is the existent of a plot that is based on dialogue and not actions.

Similar and different aspects in the real life and in the fictional world are not always easy to recognize, though it is possible to distinguish the real and invented aspects when at least one person [...]

It vividly discloses and illustrates the talent of the ancient Greek dramatist as the master of disclosure of the themes that have been topical in the course of development of human society and literature.

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 Homer's Odyssey, the noble nature of the hero is made clear in the way that his servants speak of him and strive to behave as he would expect.

However, Shakespeare, being the absolute genius of an artist was able to conceptualize the basic norms of this sentiment and presented his villain of this play as a monster, for the jingoistic mass, and a [...]

Perhaps one of the contributing factors that made this piece entertaining is the characterization of the characters in it. The material inheritance is the piano that had been to the family of Berniece and Boy [...]

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

Thesis Human existence and purpose of life were considered unimportant because the human soul had a divine nature, thus, they were afraid of death as an unknown state of human existence.

They made the readers become witnesses of the rights abuses under the rule of Pinochet, the transition to democracy made in Chile, and the democratic government's response to the rights abuses in the past.

The difference between the two women appears to be that while Ruth is an active maker and creator of her destiny, Hero more passively suffers her misfortunes and allows other people to devise schemes that [...]

Hedda Gabler, upon the discovery that her imaginary world of free-living and noble dying lies in shivers about her, no longer has the vitality to continue existence in the real world and chooses self-annihilation. At [...]

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 [...]

Judging by the conversation of the King with a lady Camae, the King indeed is presented as a human being who had feelings, fears, and emotions.

In some ways, this scene represents the conflict between Hamlet and the society he lives in, as no one is capable of understanding his concerns.

That is why Linda's monologue is important to demonstrate the other side of the problem and to draw the men's attention to the fact that Willy should be respected in spite of obstacles and conditions.

In each stage of the adventure readers are introduced to an ever increasing similarity between what is monstrous and what is man to the point that the line between the two blurs resulting in actions [...]

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

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.

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 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.

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 [...]

In order to identify the actual reasons for Iago's hatred to Desdemona and Othello, the author makes use of his own approach in analyzing the play through the prism of motives, plots, themes, and character [...]

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.

Meanwhile Caesar's son, Octavius, the heir to the throne, decides to avenge for his father's killing which leads to the deaths of the chief conspirators, Cassius and finally Brutus.

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

This means that the main character or the protagonist in the play must be the tragic hero of the play. The main antagonist in the play is the King of Thebes, Crain.

The purpose of the present paper is to reveal the great power of the play which is aimed at revealing the filthy nature of war.

This observation is not merely the central idea of the play, but is an enhancement to the basic personality trait that goes along with the horrifying aftermath of the warfare, conducted in the name of [...]

Nathan the Wise is one of the best known plays by the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that touches upon the religious issues, the conflicts, which may happen on the religious field and during the [...]

Mama, the head of the family plans to buy a house and fulfill her lifetime dream which she shared with her late husband. Walter's understanding of this American dream marks the center of the conflict [...]

As aforementioned, it is hard to differentiate between love and passion as they all come in the name of love. Nevertheless, because his 'love' for her is based on passion, he smothers her to death; [...]

The greatest evil in the play, the catalyst for the tragedy to unfold, appears to be "the Devil," the avatar of which can be seen in Iago.

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 [...]

In the first act, Evan Hansen writes himself a letter, mentioning that he should not worry about anything and be the way he is. Evan is not perfect, but he learned to accept himself, which [...]

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.

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.

Too shy to attend the business school her mother enrolled her in and without any friends of her own, Amanda decides marriage is the only answer for Laura and forces Tom to find a beau [...]

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.

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.

In contrast to Hamlet, the role of 'a play within a play' is to underline onstage and offstage characters and their qualities.

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.

This concerns what she refers to as "having doubts" in her conversation with Sister James at the last act of the play "Doubt" by John Patrick Shanley.

In this essay, we will examine the setting of the story, the behavior of Juror Eight, and the arguments he used to sway the other jurors to his side.