Essays on Plays

Romeo and Juliet in Mid-Victorian England "Romeo and Juliet" is a film that is synonymous with the year of romantics in 1845, but it covers incidents that happened between the 1700s and the mid-1800s. At the moment, romance was based exclusively on the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. In the setting,...

Antigone and Othello: A Critical Analysis of Love Antigone is a tragedy play written around 442 BCE by Sophocles about the burial of Antigone's brother Polynices against the rule of Crone and the country, as well as the tragic effects of her act of civil disdain. Othello is a tragedy play...

Introduction One of the most fascinating and very exciting plays learned in composition II is Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The play takes the atmosphere of Denmark's anarchy and begins with the sad case of the death of Kings, followed by the succession of both the Kingdom and the Queen (Gertrude) of...

Characters from both "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Doll's House" can be used to contrast and compare the two plays. Amanda Winfield and Nora Helmer are characters from "A Doll's House" and "The Glass Menagerie," respectively. While Amanda and Nora come from separate plays, when their characteristics are compared, they...

The play opens with Tom saying the play as a memory of his past with all the play-cation taking place in his head. The movements in his head are therefore sentimental, emotional and dramatic, not realistic. The Glass Menagerie as a Memory of the Past The play fits as a reminiscence of...

EMILIA “I am satisfied I have found this napkin: This was her first remembrance from the Moor: My wayward husband hath a hundred times Woo'd me to steal it; however she so loves the token, For he conjured her she should ever keep it, That she reserves it evermore about her...

The play A Raisin in the Sun The play A Raisin in the Sun, talks about two key characters Walter and Beneathaboth from the same family who have alike traits. Beneatha, Walter's younger sister, is a college student who plans to go to medical school. She appears to the most intellectual...

Act 5 Scene 1 Romeo is seen roaming the streets of Mantua at the start of the scene. He was troubled by a dream he had the night before. In his dream, he saw Juliet's body lying in a crypt, freezing, and unable to wake up despite his best efforts. Balthasar...

The Death of a Salesman embodies the quest for the impossible American Dream. The play not only identifies and discusses problems within a particular family but also delves into wider concerns surrounding basic American ideals. Arthur Miller investigates the blind hope that most Americans have about the American dream. Death...

Black and White Symbolism in Othello Black remains black and white remains black. Black is used to characterize the dark side of something, and how something physically and ethically gritty and uncomfortable might be. White, instead, is used for physically or ethically representing something pure and clean. Shakespeare used a literal...

Satire is a literary term that refers to a work that is used to mock or tease an institution or group of people in order to be satirical. This element in writing can be used by an author to persuade or persuade an audience to believe in a certain philosophy....

Human Condition in "A Doll's House" and "Othello" Human condition is a complicated thing to understand. While some humans judge the morality of an act as negative, it could in reality be seen as positive via others. Such is the case of Nora, the main character in "A Doll's House". Leaving...