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Action Summary of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

In five pages this essay presents an action summary of this famous play by Samuel Becket and also analyzes the impact of symbolism...

Society and the Individual in the Play Whose Life Is It Anyway

In five pages this paper discusses the play Whose Life is it Anyway as it presents the situation of an individual's refusal to rec...

Canada as a Multinational Entity

This five page paper investigates the friction in play between French Canadians and those of English descent. The paper relies ex...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Themes of Good and Evil

In eight pages this paper examines how evil is presented as ugly while good is depicted as beautiful throughout the course of Shak...

'Funnyhouse of a Negro' Play by Adrienne Kennedy

This is a research paper that contains five pages and presents the theme that the play is intended to convey the protagonist's lif...

American Family as Viewed by Playwright Sam Shepard

understanding of family life, much as do shows like The Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. Families are not always polite to one ...

Contemporary Women and Women in the Plays of William Shakespeare

In three pages this paper discusses contemporary women in comparison to how women were presented in the plays of William Shakespea...

Shakespeare's Villains, Iago vs. Shylock

Othello's Iago and The Merchant of Venice's Shylock are villains who drive much of the action in the plays. This paper examines Sh...

Hamlet is Not Mad

In five pages this paper examines the behavior and speeches of Prince Hamlet as presented in William Shakespeare's famous play and...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and the Concepts of Barbarism and Civilization

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how civilization and primitivism are presented in this final play by William Shak...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Character of Claudius

In five pages five scenes from the play are presented in an argument that Claudius is in fact a sympathetic character in William S...

Would Aristophanes Be Offended by a Feminist Recasting of The Birds?

In six pages the writer considers how Aristophanes would regard a feminist interpretation of his play and includes his feminist le...

Lower Social Classes in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream

In eight pages this paper analyzes the plebeians featured in Julius Caesar and the rude mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream i...

William Shakespeare Plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, and Journeys

In five pages the heroic journeys presented in each of these plays by William Shakespeare are analyzed in terms of their significa...

Richard III and Love

In five pages this paper discusses how love is presented through the perceptions of Richard III in William Shakespeare's historica...

Timelessness of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper considers the timeless aspects of the themes presented in William Shakespeare's tragic play. There is no...

King John's Character in King John by William Shakespeare

In ten pages a character analysis of King John as featured in Shakespeare's play of the same name is presented. Six sources are c...

Paying College Athletes and the Ongoing Debate

athletes unfortunately do not have the grades to attend some of these schools. The obvious reason for this phenomenon is that mone...

Women in Three Hardy Novels

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

Art Broadway Play Review

In a paper consisting of two pages a review of this Broadway play is presented. One source is cited in the bibliography....

The Blue Room Broadway Play Review

In two pages the review of a London play directed by Sam Mendes that found its way to Broadway is presented. Two sources are cite...

President Kennedy, the CIA, and the Bay of Pigs

In nine pages this paper presents a background on the Bay of Pigs invasion and considers the roles played by the CIA and President...

The Peloponnesion War and 'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument that Athens failed in fulfilling the hopes expressed by Aeschylus in his play ...

Unconscious Mind Exploration in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper psychologically probes the conflicts within Hedda Gabler as presented in Ibsen's play. Four sources are ...

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

In eight pages this paper presents a literary analysis of Ibsen's play in a consideration of dramatic plot development, theme, lan...

Sociopolitical Analysis of Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper presents a sociopolitical analysis of Moliere's seventeenth century play. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Development of Existentialist Theme in The Flies and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In ten pages this paper discusses how existentialism is thematically presented in these plays by Jean Paul Sartre. Five sources a...

Metaphors in 'Oresteia' by Aeschylus

In this paper consisting of five pages the argument presented is that metaphors especially bird metaphors are employed to represen...

Guqin Music and the Chinese Zither Instrument

a large number of other ethnic groups with distinct cultures. The westward expansion of the Chinese empire during the Tang dynast...

McCarthyism Rebuttal in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In eight sources this paper discusses how McCarthyism is presented in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Six sources are cited in...