Essays on Plays

The Designers and Ideographs The designers introduce various models with specific intentions. The ideograph serves to symbolize an idea. Therefore, it complements the pictograph in relaying a message to the audience. An example of an ideograph is the red color which symbolizes a ban. Therefore, when incorporating it with a pictogram...

According to Lajos Egri and Gilbert Miller's concept of premise, conflict, and character, a well-written play has a purpose and destination. The premise of the play addresses three primary parts which include the conflict, character and the end as well clear thumbnail synopsis such as poverty leads to crime (Egri...

The "Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" The "Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" is an extremely hilarious and resonant play that was scripted by Kristoffer Diaz in 2009, although it made its debut in the production industry three years later. It was first performed in one of the most memorable productions at...

In a hotel on the corner of Broadway and 43rd street in New York City Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is born on October 17th, 1888, a fitting beginning for a man who turned to be one of the greatest playwrights in America. Early Life and Career His father, James O’Neill was a popular American...

Introduction A Doll’s House is a play Henrik Ibsen which features characters such as Torvald, Norah, Dr. Rank, and Krogstad among others. The movie brings out Norah and Torvald Helmer to be the main characters in the film. At the beginning of the movie, the Helmer family seems to be happy...

Introduction William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tale of war, power, betrayal, and murder. The play focuses on Macbeth a character who uses evil to achieve his ambitions but in the end, is repaid with evil when he is murdered. This paper will analyze factors that contributed to Macbeth’s death; if he...

The backbone to any literary work can be considered to be the thematic concern behind it. In other words, it can be termed as the subject an author is trying to portray. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles clearly depicts the theme of gender. The play entails the aftermath that followed the death...

The play, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens is an exciting piece of art about Scrooge, an old selfish and lonely man who holds Christmas festivities in low regard. Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s former business associate, has been dead for seven years. The two pals had established themselves as loan sharks...

The Enslavement Process The enslavement process made the history of the blacks to be lost and robed their culture. This erased the memory in the stay in the captivity. The center of the play in on the history that was overshadowed by the white man. By remembering the history of the...

is a play set in a thrust kind of physical stage setting. It begins with a series of events of the characters of the play coming to stage one by one or in two and the stage director comes in so fast as if late for the event. A repeated...

Othello by Shakespeare is written at a time when the society was very patriarchal. Men view women as objects and not subjects in the relationship. The female gender is bound to be loyal and praise with submission men with their womanhood. Contrary to this cultural practice, Shakespeare presents strong women...

The Frogs by Aristophanes: Tradition vs. Innovation The play The Frogs by Aristophanes portrays the subject matter that traditions are valuable and important whereas innovations are meaningless. In the Greek comedy play, which was written around 406 BC the god Dionysus, is dissatisfied with the current state of the Athens and...