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Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and the Character of Isabella

her brothers wrongful imprisonment she requests an audience with Angelo. When she asks for her brothers release Angelo is so taken...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Mother and Daughter Relationships in Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Narrator

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

Oresteia

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Boeing and Airbus

can see how some of the challenges arose and the difficulties they created. Strategy was the reason that the French and Germ...

Shakespeare and the Cost of Power

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the cost of power in Shakespeare's tragedies. Richard III, As You Like It, and the ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Influence of Seneca

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

Theories of Tragedy from Aristotle to Freud

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

George Bernard Shaw's 'Mrs. Warren's Profession'

poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...

Sociology Of Drama And Theater

impossible for women to live independently. One of their options was to become successful and financially independent prostitutes....

Alan Ayckbourn/The Norman Conquests

neighbor. Reg, Ruth and Annie are siblings and Annie looks after their invalid mother in the family home in which they are all sta...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Reflective Essay on Hamlet by William Shakespeare

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

Symbolism and Henrik Ibsen

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

Albee: "The Sandbox"

their waste, an interpretation borne out by Grandmas lines: "they ... fixed a nice place for me under the stove ... gave me an arm...

Innocence and Guilt in 'Oedipus Tyrannus'

he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...

Analysis of Agamemnon by Aeschylus

First, the author wanted to convey something political. It was a time when democracy was rising and this type of government was at...

Hamlet, the Influence of Chance and Fate

This essay pertains to the theme of chance and fate and their influence over the chance events that result in much the motivation ...

Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize Winner

Susan-Lori Parks a writer who has written in different genres. Her play, Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer prize along with other a...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...

Literary Values in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...

Barbra Streisand's Broadway Show I Can Get It For You Wholesale

and Streisand would go on to star in a host of notable roles. This was an important show from a political and social...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Play in Therapy with Children

In a paper of seven pages, the writer focuses on different approaches to therapeutic play with children in order to build trust. ...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...