Patriarchy In Romeo & Juliet Patriarchal Politics in Fair Verona The imagery in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet reflects and often supports the time period’s stereotypes of men and women and their certain function and responsibilities in society. Shakespeare’s figurative language throughout the play portrays women with the following traits in relationship to men; silence, obedience, se

Changes of Heart Play Summary Changes of Heart: A costume interpretation Changes of Heart reflects the irony and surprises of love in an entertaining story about broken hearts and new interests. The period of the play is set in the early eighteen hundreds and deals with the temptations of love compared to the temptations of money and material wealth. The costume design, although n

Changes Throughout Society Changes Throughout Society Drama has made many changes throughout its existence and has helped to shape many different societies in many different ways. Drama began with ancient drama, worked its way up to medieval drama; now has crawled its way up to modern and contemporary drama and beyond. Today, drama of all structures are enjoyed leisurely and also f

Character Similarities Between Medea and Lysestrata Sarah Burris Character Similarities Though different playwrights wrote Trifles, Medea, and Lysistrata they contain many of the same scenarios and characterizations. Both plays have protagonists that are strong-minded women who feel they have been duped by the men in their lives and they seek to return things to their normal daily l

Imagery Of The Lion In Agamemnon Imagery of the Lion in Agamemnon In Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, symbolism is prominent throughout the play, and it is used to represent the feelings of the characters. The Greeks concentrated heavily on symbolism in their everyday life. Worshippers of many gods, the Greeks obviously felt the need to allow one thing to represent another. Their gods were sym

Dave The play opens as the Younger family anxiously awaits the arrival of a check. It is the life insurance check of $10,000, made payable to Lena (Mama) Younger, the matriarch of the family, because of the death of her husband. The entire family lives within the walls of a tiny apartment and the play takes place entirely in its worn out, lived-in living room. Travis, the young son of Ru

Characterization of John Proctor - The Crucible It is not uncommon for a small insignificant lie to roll downhill and become an uncontrollable snowball. This same analogy applies to collective hysterias; a person’s fear of someone or something easily spreads from person to person, growing into massive chaos. An example of a collective hysteria is illustrated in Arthur Miller’s play The

Oedipus Analysis It is often said that pride comes before a fall. I believe this is true, with one exception. The prideful must first trip over the truth, which causes the fall. Such is the case of Oedipus the King in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. The conflict of this tragedy is between ignorance and truth. Oedipus is unable to see the truth because of his ignorance, therefore, h

Bat Boy Bat Boy: The Musical The play Bat Boy: The Musical is the product of an historic alliance between the Weekly World News and three authors from Los Angeles. This wonderful production combines the journalism of the Weekly World News with the power of song. It’s a creative theatrical production based on the alleged sightings of a mysterious “bat child”, half-boy and half-bat, r

Phaedra Jean Racine’s play, Phaedra, arouses “pity and terror”, in accordance with Aristotle’s requirements of tragedy. In summary, Phaedra, who is married to Theseus, is overcome with a forbidden love for her stepson Hippolytus. Upon hearing and believing the rumor of her husband’s death, she is convinced by her nurse, Oenone, to finally admit to what is bothering her enough to want t

James Cleveland Reverend James Cleveland: Development of the Gospel Music Workshop of America There are many different types of Gospel music, and Reverend James Cleveland was responsible for bringing in the gap between all of them. Reverend Cleveland had a vocal style similar to Lois Armstrong, and influenced many music greats. He was called the “king” of gospel music during the post-

America Play Interpretation The “whole” referred to in “The America Play” seems to embody definitive moments in American History, such as the assassination of President Lincoln. Park focuses not on the celebrated figures of heroism, but those who contributed to the shaping of the country, but have yet to receive credit. The digging of a “hole” represents the search for the history

Pinter Harold Pinter Winners and losers in the plays of Harold Pinter English Literature Home Page Course Summary English Literature Resources English Literature Essays Contact Us "I think what you're talking about began in The Dumb Waiter. Violence is really only an expression of the question of dominance and subservience, which is possibly a repeated theme in my plays. I wrote a sho

Medea, The Tragic Hero Medea: the Tragic Hero Aristotle’s tragic hero is defined in Poetics and consists of five essential characteristics. Although some tragedies did not follow Aristotle’s model, the list of characteristics that Aristotle describes became a prototype and outline for many Greek tragedy writers. Euripedes wrote over one hundred tragedies and many times he followed Ar

Cobb A Critique of the Play, Cobb The emotional play, Cobb, is a narrative of the life of the baseball great, Ty Cobb. This traditional play written by Lee Blessing, allows you to see three generations of Cobb’s life simultaneously. The three characters that depicted the different ages of Cobb’s life were energetic and entertaining. Their sound projection and overall performan

The Man in a Case Lackluster Lover In Wendy Wasserstein¡¦s play, ¡§The Man in a Case,¡¨ Varinka is a woman who is defined by her free spirit and love for Byelinkov. She never planned to marry before she met him as no one wanted her like Byelinkov does: ¡§It was just that no man ever looked at me and saw a wife¡¨ (695). Her outgoing, outlandish behavior is what makes her who she is, b

Political Review Multicultural Education The debate over Multicultural Education in America has long been called "The Melting Pot" due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races,cultures and ethnicities. As more and more immigrants come to America in searching for a better life, the population naturally become more diverse. This has in turn spun a great debate over multic

Allusions Of Atheism Allusions of Atheism “Faustus is the only ‘fantasy’ Marlow wrote, a fantasy set in a world surrounded and interpenetrated by a heaven and a hell, a devil and an incarnated Christian God (man love 77).” Don’t allow this “magical” world to be misleading. Although “no one will deny that Dr. Faustus works within an implicit Christian framework (Birje - Patil 17),” Dr.

Pride Goes Before The Fall Pride Goes Before the Fall Greek heroes were often thought of as being innocent of the events that trouble them. However, pride, or hubris, was something that Oedipus was constantly trailed with. Oedipus’ tragic flaw was pride, which proved to be a never-ending cause of trouble for him. Oedipus Rex gave several examples of Oedipus’ hubris, how he paid fo

Desire Desire Under the Elms and The Childrens Hour can both be considered to be plays that exploit a sexual taboo of their time. In the case of Desire Under the Elms adultery would be the issue, with lesbianism being the main focus in The Childrens Hour. In both of these works there is a strong theme of sexual repression. How does this sexual repression play a role in who the characters

Do You Want To Play At Questions Do you want to play at questions' Rosencrants and Guildenstern Play Critique Do you want to play Questions' Tom Stoppard\'s, 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead' was directed and produced by Michael Robertson, in a two act show performed at the Whitney Fine Arts Theatre on Loring Park. Colored and patterned with existentialism and feelings of absur

Oedipus Tyrannus The characters who live in the city of Thebes are the people who have a problem that they cannot solve on their own. In solving those problems, the characters within the city of Thebes play just as much of a roll in solving them as do the characters from outside the city. Although the characters such as Teiresias, the messenger, and the shepherd all brought information t

Othello The play Othello deals with many themes that fall onto a skeletal system of social fame work, which can be represented by the role of the women of the play. They represent levels of class, virtue and intelligence. Desdemona is high class, virtuous, and makes her own decisions; Emilia is in the middle, a maid, manipulated by Iago and loyal to Desdemona; and Bianca is the bottom

Ralph And Emily Ralph and Emily Talent is what all matters. I could not decide that about which character I should write. Finally, I made a short review of all the characters and came to know that there are two characters amongst all that have something positive in common. These two characters are Ralph and Emily. They both have an in-built talent in common. Ralph being in a min

Psychoanalytical Limitations Psychoanalytic Limitations Psychoanalysis is a theory that cannot only be applied in a doctor patient format, but can also be used as a way of interpreting literature. In doing this, the psychoanalytic literary critic must focus on the author, mainly childhood experiences, and also focus on how the text(s) relate to these experiences. Although the psycho

Ragtime Ragtime Review The first ever showing in the new Dorothy Young Center was success. Ragtime was the first play performed in the new black box theater. Ragtime takes you back to the early part of the twentieth century America when racism was very evident, immigration was happening at Ellis Island and immigrants were looking for that elusive goal of achieving the American dre

Raisin In The Sun Symbolism: A Raisin in the Sun The play, A Raisin in the Sun, is all about dreams that are deferred. Everyone in the play has a dream that they wish to achieve. Some are more selfish than others, but they all want to be able to provide good things for their family. The author, Lorraine Hansberry, used objects, which are otherwise unimportant, to symbolize other object

Ralph Lord Of The Flies Ralph, the first character introduced to the audience, is probably the most likable character in the entire story. Although he does not ponder such deeply like Piggy, is not as spiritual like Simon, or as energetic as Jack, there is something in him that attracts the audience. Ralph serves as the protagonist of the story. He is described as being a playful, in

Death And The Kings Horseman With a society that embraces labels and stereotypes it is often hard to categorize an entire nation of people. Yet the British colonies were so apt to regard the African people as savage and barbaric that they looked upon them with a superior ignorant complex. They did not understand their culture and regarded their beliefs and customs as magical and sacrileg

Children And Drama Children and Drama: Report on 2 articles Children and Drama compiled by Nellie McCaslin is a book, which encompasses works by many different authors. All of these articles seem to have a common theme, children in theater. By reviewing four articles we are able to come up with common methods amongst the authors. The four articles I chose to review were “Though