YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Plays from Ancient and Modern Eras
Essays 601 - 630
what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...
arouse student interest and also to engage their emotions (Zorro and Castillo, n.d.). Many different stimuli could be used to enga...
was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...
his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...
to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...
the notion that Jews were alien people among them and a threat to their perceived way of life. While many teachers resisted instru...
again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...
the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...
class. It may not even be that the author attempts to make it about that, but it is there in the lifeblood of the play and somethi...
plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...
exists between Antony and Cleopatra and through his overblown language show the audience that the romance between Antony and Cleop...
to sum up what has taken place up until now. In addition, we are given a look at perhaps the ridiculousness of the situation in on...
father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...
psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...
inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...
at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...
While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...
to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
give the appearance of being the blushing bride and groom, but their newlywed bliss is tempered by respectful grief for the belove...
of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...
to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...
theater (Graham-Jones 7). Theater listings in the daily newspapers typically advertise fifty or sixty plays being staged at any gi...
have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...
only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...
there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...
as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...
rebellious for "she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship....