Plays Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

In this regard, the decisions of Hamlet, Claudius, Walter, and Lena illustrate the character's commitment to family despite differences of opinion and disagreements.

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy involving the character Kate Minola. She is seen as a shrew because she is unwilling to conform to society's assumed norms of the lady of ladyhood.

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 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 [...]

Therefore, the entire Thebes is overwhelmed in misery, the people are grief-stricken, and the whole of Thebes is in despair due to the plague, which has laid waste to the city. In the history of [...]

The play has three types of love: self-love, true love, and friendship. Many films, YouTube videos, Instagram videos, and TikTok channels try to play along the theme of love and bring out the differences in [...]

However, even though Hamlet threatens to murder Gertrude to "wring" her heart, the audience can understand that he loves his mother and wants her to repent of her sins and end the relationship with Hamlet's [...]

The first striking problem of Hamlet is the one of choice, which may be considered a reflection of the main conflict of the tragedy.

In lines "and what's he then that says I play the villain," Iago acknowledges that he seduces his victim, Cassio, by pretending to display good intent.

To be classified as an Aristotelian tragedy, a film or story must be complex and include a situation in which a respectable person suffers a complete reversal of fortunes due to a fatal mistake and [...]

Even though Othello is a Moor, he fights for Venice in this war and wins, thus proving his loyalty to the Christian Venice.

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 same parallel exists with Ibsen's Nora, who realized that to her husband, she was a doll to be played with and admired.

It is necessary to analyze the protagonist and the plot itself to identify the evil that has led the characters to their downfall.

The title of this drama is the essence of all three members of the Hubbard family. Each of the three members of the Hubbard family tries to outsmart the other for the most benefit.

Despite this, her husband also takes the side of the brothers and transfers all his money as an inheritance to his daughter and not to Regina. Regina's opposition to the commonwealth of her brothers, her [...]

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 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.

The main difference between the two plays is the lack of concrete stage directions in Sophocles' Antigone. By the means of music and singing, the director expresses all the events and shows the interaction between [...]

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.

By the end of the play, the woman is left alienated from other members of the family, her daughter refusing to support open acts of evil any longer.

In her essay "Witness: The Inward Testimony," Nadine Gordimer addresses the ability of a writer to reflect on reality and presents the concept of witness literature.

According to the analysis, it is evident that even though the story, plot, and characters stay the same, the change in the style of "Romeo and Juliet" will have a significant difference from the original [...]

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

The events of Tartuffe transpire over the course of one day, originating in the early morning and concluding in the late evening, with most of the situations happening at the house of the protagonist.

Later in the play, the reader learns that this is a childhood trait and she cannot allow her husband to feel obligated to her.

From this it can be argued that, the Negroes present still reminds them about their past and hence their past affects their present in America.

It tells the story of the king Oedipus' daughter and her uncle Creon, the new king of the city of Thebes. The current essay represents the discussion of the characters of the famous play Antigone [...]

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 [...]

With the view to resolve the problem of the double consciousness in the play "Dutchman", the author addresses his views to the audience through the course of the play.

The protagonist is on the verge of madness: an intelligent and unexcelled humanist in the world, which is an enemy to his ideas. However, Oedipus later comes to terms with his fate and takes responsibility [...]

In one of the chapters of his book, The Norton Anthology of the World Literature, Puchner talks about the life of Sophocles and the eternal relevance of his seven surviving plays, as well as their [...]

Despite the many themes that can be highlighted in The Other Shore, it should be considered primarily in the context of the cultural and political events in China at the time of writing this work.

The reader is given the negative effect of the created men and women stereotyped roles in the society of the XIX century.

There was written in the newspaper article in The Washington Times, "Neil Simon, like Mark Twain, has a unique way of exposing the American spirit by drawing on experiences in his own life and creating [...]

While this idea is not always true in specific cases, it can be assumed to be true in the case of Romeo and Juliet because of the ways in which they act.

It would be desirable to have the various elements of the set interchangeable to make it easy to present the different locations presented in the play.

The essay will corroborate the quotation by Calvino proving that political use of literature is a voice of the voiceless, a name for the nameless and a way of including the excluded.

The genre of tragedy used in Macbeth poses the question to the reader: who is responsible for committing a crime - the individual or the society?

The plays Waiting for Godot and A Long Day's Journey into Night indirectly imply the topic of the marriage's role and how it impacts the individuals.

Such a practice appears to affect the nature of the existing relationship in the play. For example, Orgon manages to secure both his family and possession before the end of the play.

The first indication of the main character's straightforwardness, which is the main factor of the play's success, is Troy's argument with the company boss concerning the division of labor.

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.

The name of the comedy is a pun - the word Earnest is consonant with the name Ernest, which has the semantic meaning of a serious, noble, and honest, which represents the two heroes of [...]

In Romeo and Juliet, love is the central theme of the tragedy, and the images of the protagonists are mostly shaped by the relationships and challenges they had to face.

Oedipus is a victim of his destiny and he is punished by it for things that he did not do, and at the same time, his character and heart play a major role in his [...]

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.

I swear I have not slept a wink. I hate this school and I hate this world!

Second, the atmosphere produced at the stage can be evaluated as contributing to the perception of the play. Excellent production and performance of the play impressed the viewers.

It is open to anyone reading the play to make a personal conclusion as to the degree of pain and suffering that Jocasta went through in her life.

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 [...]

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.

Shakespeare utilizes secondary characters to depict the theme of friendship and loyalty, as these aspects are influential on the main character.

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.

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the play through manifesting the themes and statement about the society and family drawbacks of that time; evaluating of the quality of the acting on the basis [...]

In the play Hamlet is a noble soldier with admirable qualities but he avenges the death of his father using his free will.

Nowadays the performance of this eighteenth century play requires the restrained and subtle play of actors; otherwise the humor may not be delivered to the audience to the full extent.

In the genre of literature, the word tragedy can be loosely applied to mean any serious and dignified drama that gives a description of the conflict that is existent between the protagonist and a superior [...]

Lamber puts the hat on and soon, she is on her feet and is showing herself around, in a fashionable way.

It is the expectation in this paper to direct the play to produce a glaring spectator trill. In directly the play and getting it on stage, a number of items are relevant both for the [...]

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 [...]

Amanda's withdraw to the past suggests that she does not want anybody else and especially her children to go through the bad experiences she had in the past.

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 [...]

Four types of love, eros, storge, phileo, and agape love, can be found in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, of which storge love can be distinguished best of all, while eros is almost completely [...]

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

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 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.

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.

Both Glass Menagerie and Endgame resort to anti-realistic devices, such as play of words, linguistic gaps and silence, reduced mobility of the characters, detaching the audience attention from the objectivism of reality in order to [...]

Oedipus consults the servant who was sent to abandon him as a child and it is revealed that he was the child of Laius and Jocasta.

From the beginning of the story, he managed to set the readers against the king, which makes the majority of them support the daughters in the conflict between them and the king, the conflict that, [...]

The main character of the tragedy is Hamlet, a young man who comes to know about the real reasons of his father's death from the ghost that claims to be the spirit of his father. [...]

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 [...]

The Delphic Oracle informed that this famine served as a punishment from the gods for not having reattributed the murderer of the Oedipus royal predecessor; therefore, Oedipus ironically vowed to find the murderer."Just as if [...]

From the play's very beginning, Shakespeare establishes Henry V as responsible ruler of his subjects, who does not only impose law on others but also lives up to the requirements of the same law.

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.

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 [...]

In the tradition of classical dramaturgy of ancient Greeks, the concept of the pay and its representation was driven in terms of the natural play of actors and without decorations.

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 [...]

This paper is an attempt to analyze Hamlet's actions and inactions to prove the authenticity of the application of these maxims to the protagonist.

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 strengths of such friendships can be seen in the way Friar Laurence accepts and anticipates Romeo's actions, showing that he is ready to hear him as a friend not as a priest, "Doth couch [...]

Providing some actions people do not always think about the consequences, but it usually appears so that they get what they deserve and the play of the ancient Greek author Sophocles "Oedipus the King" is [...]

It is known that the plot of the drama is built around an awful tragedy in the life of the protagonist and his surrounding.

As the story progresses, the protagonist, Oedipus, evolves from his position as the egocentric king of Thebes and rapidly disintegrates into a victim of his own fate.

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 [...]

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.

John may be considered the protagonist of the play, however, the interrelation of the two main female characters of the play are, certainly, of great use for the development of the action and realization of [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

The Cripple of Inishmaan written by Martin McDonahg is a dark comedy, which connects the actual story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran.

These soliloquies are dramatic and ironical, Harold Wilson submits, with an irony that is implicit and eloquent in the extravagances of Hamlet's rhetoric.

This contradiction is revealed in the play by confronting the principles of two characters, Creon who felt his powers and used them to the fullest possible extent and Antigone with her actions which were not [...]

There is something in the symbolism of his career, and in the words with which it is memorialized, which is evocative of drama not upon the tragic stage but in the theories and speculations of [...]

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 [...]

Because they are women, the men automatically assume that they are incapable of understanding the gravity of what has occurred just as the men have apparently ignored the possibility that it was Mrs.

During the ancient times, the Greeks held festivals in honor of Dionysus who was referred to as the god of everything uncivilized where the Athenians tried to control the innate wildness of humanity.

Even though the main plot of the story is centered on challenges threatening to sabotage the union Hero and Claudio, Beatrice along with Benedick with their constant verbal jousting finds itself quite an interesting counter-plot.

Thus, it is evident from the arguments of the author believes in the thought process that though not in the usual pattern of the era Shakespeare constructed his works in the line of romantic nature [...]

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 [...]

In order to defend Henry, Shakespeare portrays that the stability and order of the kingdom partly depend on Henry's proving his qualities as a strong leader, drives home in realistic detail the disorderly "savagery" in [...]

Emilia Galotti is the central figure of the play with her parents Odoardo and Claudia. Emilia is the daughter of a respectable bourgeois officer Odoardo and has caught the eye of the womanizing Prince Gonzaga.

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.

The further development of the art of theatre took place in the Roman Empire that brought this art to a higher level of development and gave the basis for the history of the European medieval [...]

The director aims at portraying Oedipus as a confident person and this is very evident in Oedipus' opening speech in the play as it exudes the authority of a father to his people and brings [...]

In the play, Oedipus sought his own origins because he understands the importance of knowing his own family. The theme of destiny is also important in the play Oedipus.

Overall it is worth mentioning that the play abounds in symbolic images, For example, it is quite possible for us to say to a certain degree Blanche Dubois represents the so-called old South whereas Stanley [...]

The change in the woman's organ may be considered a form of mutilation but since it was done for the husband-to-be and in a western context, it was not seen so by Ensler.

Sophocles makes use of all these elements in the Oedipus Rex and the fact that the audience is aware of the myth of Oedipus foreshadows his fate in the beginning of the play.

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.

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.

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.