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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Society's Morals

In eight pages this paper discusses how the play's plot and characterization focus on moral values of society. Four sources are l...

Literature, Humor, and Morality

In four pages this paper discusses how morality is humorously depicted in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters, Machiavelli's Madragol...

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...

Discussing The Shadow Box

The Shadow Box was a 1977 Michael Cristofer play. This paper summarizes it in terms of theme, characterization, dialogue, setting ...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

'The Eumenides' by Aeschylus

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

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...

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...

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...

'Queen Mab' Speech of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes this speech and how it becomes as much uncontrollable violence as sparked by the play's lovers. ...

Acting and Directorial Force in the Play Reverend Billy

In five pages this paper discusses how the play's content is overshadowed by its acting and directing. There are no sources liste...

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...

Shakespeare's Hamlet Act II, Scene II

The scene in which Hamlet meets with the Players and the reaction to these Players are the focus of this paper consisting of five ...

Prince Hal's Maturation in Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines Prince Hal's maturity in this Shakespeare historical play in an analysis of the roles played by F...

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...

Getting Out by Marsha Norman

In 5 pages this paper discusses the dual identities of the 1983 play's protagonist and the dual women's realities of the Sixties a...

Disorder and Moral Darkness in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the tragedy of disorder and moral darkness that characterizes the play and considers the roles L...

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...

Tragic Heroism of Prince Hamlet

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

The Character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie

This research paper examines the character and dramatic function of "Tom" in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menageri...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Their words were powerful weapons that turned into action that threw the entire city into war. Because of the feuding families of...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

Twelfth Night, Role Playing, and Disguises

this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In summari...

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...

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 ...

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...