Plays Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

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.

Hamlet was thinking about the afterlife and suicide to achieve peace, and during this speech, a reader might feel the pain and despair of the main character.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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.

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.

The most laconic in the depiction and criticism of the society of his time was Arthur Miller, who presented the world with two significant works: "Death of a Salesman" and "Incident at Vichy".

Chapter three in the book of Genesis tells about the temptation of a woman by the serpent and the violation of the prohibition on eating fruits from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

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.

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.

The Ghost in the play is charitable because it helps Hamlet to know the truth about the way his father died and to begin finding clues for the murder.

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 [...]

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 raises the question of what stories will be remembered in the future and whether they have any chance of staying unchanged. Returning to the central conflict, it finally receives a resolution in the [...]

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

In this particular part of the series of plays he wrote on the history surrounding Henry IV, Shakespeare introduces the audience to the Henry IV as a King who has acquired the throne through unjust [...]

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

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

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.

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 way Friar Laurence supported Romeo and Juliet to get Married, The way the Nurse is opposing in her regards of Romeo and Paris, When Friar Laurence clandestinely married them, the way the Nurse is [...]

Dramatic irony is used by Shakespeare to unveil the personal failures of the characters to see the reality and the world around them because of narrow-mindedness and shortsightedness.

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.

The play 'The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams focuses on the life of Amanda along with her son Tom, and "weakling" daughter Laura during the year 1937 at St.

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 [...]

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 [...]

In addition to fighting for his king, Macbeth is quickly and well rewarded for his efforts as King Duncan makes him the new Thane of Cawdor in addition to his already holding the title of [...]

This paper is discussing the character of the relationship between mama and her son Walter together with the problems which are brought up in the interaction of these two characters in the play.

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.

By the end of the play, Marsha has stopped pretending in front of her husband and Wanda that she is fine.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Therefore, a critical analysis of the story enlightens the contemporary society on the aspect of hospitality in relation to the people of Greece.

It should be stated that even though most of the scholars point to the fact that Shakespeare was not the author of the plays, I would like to contradict this opinion and prove that Shakespeare's [...]

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 [...]

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 poem seeks to illustrate on the battles between Agamemnon the King and the warriors Achilles. The Iliad story begins at almost the end of the Trojan War during besiege by the Greeks.

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?

Oscar Wilde's comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is a satire of everything stuffy and constrictive in the 19th and early 20th century. The play explores the theme of the relations between the sexes.

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.

This divergence in the acceptance of what is said to them between the younger and older versions of Oedipus is based on the fact that the older version of Oedipus had developed a considerable degree [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

The drama investigates the connections between honor and reputation, societal conventions, and gender roles and how these things influence the actions and relationships of the individuals in the play.

A tragic hero, as envisioned by Aristotle, is depicted in the drama and events of Oedipus. Oedipus experiences a turn of events that Aristotle refers to as the "heart of a tragedy" due to the [...]

Frequently, the influence of misinformation in the modern day is just as significant as it was in the history of Salem.

Through the exemplification of an individual's struggle, the play discusses identity loss and a man's resistance to change in his life and the surrounding society.

The comparison between Richard's and Henry's kingdoms by use of repetition signifies that the main lesson of the play is the importance of balancing power and accountability to maintain a stable and fair nation.

Hamlet's father was murdered by Claudius, his uncle and now his stepfather, to gain the throne. Hamlet's capability to critically and adequately assess the situation is one component of what could allow him to resist [...]

However, in the drama of that period, there is a noticeable discrepancy between the frequency of jokes and the rarity of adultery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The surviving myths, poems, plays, and stories of the Age of Antiquity allow people to learn about not only the events and religions of the past but also the cultures, lifestyles, and morals of societies [...]

The task of A Thousand Acres is to demonstrate the relevance and popularity of the primary source among the modern reader, simultaneously with criticism and rethinking of specific points.

The last scene will take place on the lowest level, the garden, which will be transformed into a graveyard by the rising of gravestones and the projection of a mausoleum in the background of the [...]

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 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 [...]

When his mother gets insurance for ten thousand dollars after his father's death, he decides to take a risk and invest a part of the money in a liquor store.

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.

Hamlet's assessment of his issues is accurate in the sense that he already associates Claudius with problems, but the prince is too quick to judge his mother.

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

A significant point, that should be pointed out, is that senex is living in the suburbs of Rome, and Demea is the farmer from Athens.

After reading William Shakespeare's play "Othello" ordinary readers, as well as literary critics, fail to come to a unanimous conclusion about intricate traces of Iago's character; some critics suggest that Iago is unique and the [...]

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 [...]

By reading through Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, the idea of how the environment impacts the perception of self becomes clearer by understanding how the people in the story adopt community values and how they [...]

Laurencia, the object of the Commander's desire further makes clear to Mengo that in her understanding love is inseparable from honour and thus involves the lover's commitment to their own and their beau's reputation as [...]

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 [...]

One of the strong points of the performance is the vocal quality; emotional, expressive and rhythmical pronunciation of the utterances transfers the mood of the actors to the audience.

One of the interesting structural points of the play is that narration in the play is being led by two voices: one presenting the listener with the real day life activities of the character and [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Williams admits that she regrets her diminished status: the fading of her beauty and the increasing harshness of her tone of voice: "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time [...]

The play The Taming of the Shrew was written at a time of renewed interest in marriage, in the way relations between the sexes were being redrawn by the consequences of the Reformation and by [...]

The knowledge the Queen has as to the specific nature of Ophelia's death calls into question her sincerity in her lament.

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.

In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the titular character begins plotting his revenge after he encounters the ghost of his father, who informs him of the murder as well as the culprits.

While the play has comedic elements, the events that the characters of the play go through are highly tragic and ultimately lead to negative consequences for the majority of them.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Preminger et al.claim that poetry is to be educative and pleasurable and both versions of "Romeo and Juliet" meet this criterion regardless of the fact that they had to appeal to the audience of a [...]

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 [...]

Of course, the most suggestive similarity of the two plays is that recognition and reversal occur simultaneously for protagonists as they learn an important thing about themselves and this knowledge changes their life completely forcing [...]

This is tangible evidence that could have assisted the prosecution and the eventual conviction of Mrs. Wright's guilt on the basis of evidence that they have.

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.

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.

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 [...]

The review will take the form of an in depth analysis of part one of the whole poem before that, most imperatively, presents the plot of the poem including shading light into the flow.

The synthesis of old and new traditions in play writing contributes to the development of new genres that Shakespeare makes use of to reflect the historic and cultural context of his epoch.

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

In the opening scene of the play, Medea is beating herself over the loss and present to console her is an elderly nurse.

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.

The author, Alan Bennet has demonstrated his expertise in play writing through the interesting and fascinating nature of the play. The development and nature of the play, "The History Boys" is really admirable and eye [...]

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 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.

To my mind, one of the key themes of the play is considered to be absence of mutual respect and support."It is obvious throughout the script of the play that everyone has their own agenda [...]

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 [...]

Nowadays, the word "habit" is used in order to indicate an action or emphasize the tendency of doing something, while in Shakespearean context, word "habit" is not an action.

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.

The strong character traits of the main characters Odyssey and Job in the epic The Odyssey and The Story of Job help develop their plots from the beginning to the rise of conflict and their [...]

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.

Creon is the antagonist in of the story. She is even willing to die in the name of honor.

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.

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 [...]

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

Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play that examines the essence of jealousy through the characters of Iago and Desdemona. As Iago uses Roderigo's love for Desdemona to accomplish his goals, this subplot helps emphasize the [...]

As for the impact of his father, it is evident in the play that the intense love and connection between the king and the prince make the latter seek revenge for his father's death.