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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, ...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Man of All Seaons/Robert Bolt

This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...

The Theme of Tragedy in Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

Failure as Depicted in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages the relationship between Willy Loman and his sons is compared with other real life relationships and discussed withi...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Enlightenment Values in the Character of Phaedra in Euripides’ Hippolytus

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

Role of Ideology in Genocide/Germany and Rwanda

the notion that Jews were alien people among them and a threat to their perceived way of life. While many teachers resisted instru...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language - TEFL

arouse student interest and also to engage their emotions (Zorro and Castillo, n.d.). Many different stimuli could be used to enga...

Theater of Pain - Hedda Gabler and Equus

is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...

The Crucible and the Issue of Pride in the Play

to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...

Religion in Two Plays: “The Darker Face of the Earth” and “Oedipus Rex”

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of seven pages the conflict between the traditional matriarchy and the newly developed patriarchy as repr...

The Stronger by August Strindberg

him in the end, yet if that is the case, why has she been the one who has had to experience such a range of emotional upheaval? I...

Athol Fugard's Blood Knot

In a paper consisting of 4 pages the opening of Fugard's play discusses the world effects of apartheid and this paper summarizes t...

Compare and Contrast Two Arthur Miller Plays

This 6 page paper discusses the Arthur Miller plays Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge. The writer argues that in both...

Women's Roles In Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun

This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...

Setting in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of five pages the set construction and design and how their details serve to emphasize the play's theme are ...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Play and Film Versions of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The comic elements of this famous play by Christopher Marlowe are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is no for...

I Will Marry When I Want Play by Ngugi Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii

In six pages the play's original production is analyzed in terms of its primary thematic elements. Four sources are cited in the ...

Scene V Analysis of Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...

Demonic and Divine Powers in Oedipus by Sophocles

In four pages this paper examines the play's good vs. evil conflict in a consideration of how divine power is dominated by demonic...

Comparing Medea and Lysistrata

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...

Agamemnon and 'Oresteia' by Aeschylus

This paper consists of five pages and considers how Cassandra's rendition of events represents a play within a play as her word im...

Cleopatra's Soliloquy in the Fifth Act, Second Scene of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

This paper analyzes the soliloquy Cleopatra delivers to Dolabella in this scene in three pages in terms of how it relates to the p...

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov #2

In an essay consisting of five pages Chekhov's and Stanislavsky's views of the play are compared with the argument being that acco...

Blaming Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

his sons the skills and awareness to become the men they could have become. But can that be blamed on a man who did not have the...