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Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Willy Loman and Exhaustion

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Biff's Life Lessons

brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...

Daniel Sklar's Playmaking

the goal" involves all the children in a discussion of the project and how to approach it. It describes why such projects are wor...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Social Secession

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

world. There was nothing that did not deserve serious inquiry. Not only did the Greek society have a curious nature, but they had ...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

A Hypothetical Letter Writen to Othello

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

Images and Symbols in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Family Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Marriage

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

Opening scenes in Romeo and Juliet

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

Lyrical Significance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard II

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

Friendship Between Othello and Iago According to Friedrich Nietzsche

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Aristotle, Avenue Q, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...

History of Opera in China and its Social Implications

Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Symbolism

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...

Murder and the Dark Side of Domestic Violence

Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because th...

Shakespeare and Film Related to Henry V

with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Comparing Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the Thematic Importance of Setting

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

Time Perceptions in Poetry

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...