Plays

The suffocating desire to be financially stable, nevertheless the inability to pursue dreams due to finance, mixing with fear inflicted by a world of ever- evolving obstacles creates a dark cloud abov…

How hard is it to start a business? Everybody has a dream, but dreams do not always come true. In the book, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, everybody has a dream, but not everyone's dreams…

Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot introduces a new type of irrationality and absurdity to the audience that rejects logic and reason. This rejection of reason and acceptance of irrationality is …

In the late 1500s, the city of Verona portrayed many stereotypes and societal differences between men and women. Men were presented as masculine, tough and prideful while women were delineated as femi…

There once was a war between two families. The feud happened in the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The Montagues, Lord Montague, Lady Montague, and Romeo. The Capulets, Lord Capulet, La…

Love is a complicated idea just by itself, but love can drive people in different or wild directions. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet becomes more independent after meeting Romeo. Her parents…

Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters' actions are more likely to be based on strong emotions and less on logic. This leads to extremely awful results. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Sh…

Money and materialism are worthless themselves because it blinds too many people in real life. Many of these people know that someone has to die in order for money to come. In this film, I have seen h…

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a play that contributes to comedy. It is made for the comic relief of the social conventions of the Victorian era. Where morality is everything and it…

Tragedies were a significant part of people's lives in ancient Greece. Tragedies surfaced long before the Birth of Jesus. In ancient Greece, a tragedy, or goat-song, was typically performed during fes…

In his lifetime, Aeschylus was the first of the three great ancient Greek writers of tragedy. He witnessed the Persian Wars and even served with his fellow Athenians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 B…

Is love or hate more powerful? As stated by Martin Luther King Jr. "Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."(1963). Meaning that my stance on this is that love is more powerful. Love is mor…

Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, political transformations began to shape Europe. By creating strong central governments and shifting the focus to humanity, Machiavelli consequently utilizes Th…

Death has always held a fascination for humanity. It has been feared, respected, studied, and questioned by every culture and time period to exist, but no matter what we do, death is and will always b…

John Proctor is the most dishonorable character in the Crucible. He is a terrible husband and doesn't deserve to have Elizabeth or Abigail in his life. John has ruined the trust of his wife when he sl…

In the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the characters Romeo and Juliet are inexperienced young adults flanked by their parents' ideas about love and marriage. Their admiration for one another…

In the play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, a group of young girls are found practicing witchcraft, and a series of witch trials stem from a single event in their town. In the end, no good ha…

Macbeth, as a play, is propelled forward through the Macbeths' ambition and their heinous acts formed through it. The play revolves around their actions to achieve their ambitious dreams of Kingship &…

The death of King Duncan, we know who is responsible, but who is to blame? In the story Macbeth by Shakespeare, Macbeth is told two prophecies by three witches. One, he will become Thane of Cawdor, tw…

Nedia Cambell once said "what once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed". Shakespears Romero and Julliette revolves around Romeo Montague, the protagonist, who finds hims…

Euripides paints a tragic and heartbreaking picture of the story of Heracles, ancient Greece's greatest hero. This story is unlike any other, demonstrating the extremes of what revenge can drive someo…

In the play "Master Harold"... and the Boys, by Athol Fugard, Hally does not have a chance at redemption. Growing up under apartheid has branded racism into his language and actions, intentional or no…

Being so madly in love can change and open up a new perspective of the way human beings act. Like changing personality for someone or having someone's back. It can even drive people to go so confident…

The intentional bias in The Merchant of Venice are visualized in this play when certain spoken and unspoken communications are analyzed.I don't suggest analyzing something insignificant. Such as Anton…

People's daily lives are surrounded by conformity without them even realizing it. While conformity is a neutral viewpoint, it might make dealing with certain social difficulties easier. The Crucible, …

Both Lear and Gloucester fail to see that they are hurtful towards their children, and this hurt ultimately leads to their untimely demise. King Lear did not want to deal with his responsibilities as …

From the start of Othello, Iago is plotting against the other characters and is conspiring to their demise. Despite the other characters holding much significance, Iago proves himself to be the most i…

Power is a necessity for many people, so much it can drive a person to do the unthinkable. The tragedy of Macbeth is a play regarding his wife, and three evil sisters who rely on spells and potions …

In Hamlet, by Shakespeare, Hamlet uses his two soliloquies in Act 2 and 3 to exemplify how his uncertainty is a sign of cowardice. People don't act because they are scared. For Hamlet, he is scared to…

Shakespeares' "Romeo and Juliet" is perhaps the quintessential example of a tragedy. Two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, meet, only to have their destruction brought about by Friar Lawrence. While both Rome…