YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Drama of Euripides
Essays 121 - 150
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...
we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...
her position of being pregnant. Through this pregnancy, her ability to be incredibly fertile, she is truly trapped in a world that...
coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...
pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...
devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...
excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...
With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...
Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...
Huaguxi Opera, also known as "Flower Drum" opera was first seen in Chinas Hunan province, with the first mention of it in 1695 (Ch...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...
in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...
included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...
he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...
normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...
content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...
to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...
first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...
finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...
clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...