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Soyinka: "Death and the King's Horseman"

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

Maturity in the Relatoinship of Romeo and Juliet

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

The Black Experience Captured in the Plays of August Wilson

Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by...

Nineteenth Century Romanticism and the Importance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Theme of Appearance vs. Reality

give the appearance of being the blushing bride and groom, but their newlywed bliss is tempered by respectful grief for the belove...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

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...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Analyzing the Prose of Ophelia in Act III, Scene i, Lines 155 to 166 of Hamlet

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

Play Therapy and Behavior

allowed for recognition of human thought as an "integral part of human behavior" (OConnor, 1991, p. 26). Prior to this point, beha...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

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...

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...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

General Analysis of William Shakespeare's 'MacBeth'

The powerful themes of temptation, guilt, heresy, and prophecy as they lend to the play's overall effectiveness are considered in ...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Concepts of Justice and Law

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts of law and justice are featured in the play's famous courtroom scene. There a...

Analysis of Madness in Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this research paper analyzes madness within the contexts of Paulina Salas Escobar in the play and screenplay Death a...

Biology as a Determinant of Action

The writer discusses the role genetics plays in determining behavior, and indicates that while social models and genetics together...

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...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Function of Ophelia's Character

In five pages this paper discusses the play's second scene in Act II and the first scene in Act III in a consideration of the func...

The Tragic Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In ten pages this report discusses the play's tragic characteristics that exist despite its twentieth century setting and the ways...

Analyzing Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages this research paper examines the play's themes and discusses typical productions of Miller's social drama. There ar...

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...

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...