Drama Essays

 “The Three Day Blow” is a dramatic story. Though it’s a story, we find certain elements of a drama. The story itself is not so grand. It’s simply a story of two friends – Nick and Bill. Once, in a blow, Nick came to Bill’s house to meet him. Bill’s …

The central irony of Ambrose Bierce’s well-known story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”  is the tension between objective reality and dream reality, posited in the context of the story as thematic representations of specific ontological philosophies, which can be rendered in  literary terms as realism and romanticism.  The story …

According to the Oxford dictionary, drama is a play for theatre, radio or television which has exciting, emotional or unexpected emotional circumstances. Drama is the form of act that communicates ideas through actions and speeches. For this second semester, we, TESL 1 students need to stage a drama entitled King …

     When an individual feels powerless to tackle a situation, one is persuaded to act against one’s will, one experiences the importance of power; when one is able to exercise one’s  will and feels what one does is  correct, power comes to the fore again. All human relationships have implied …

A Civil Action is a legal based movie, of a true story, that revolves around some heavy ethical issues. It features two large, supposedly polluting factories in Woburn, MA. This movie highlights the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom to make it easily understandable for the viewers. The looming …

Squashed in the Attic  The setting of the play is Levels High Community College in the small town of Ruskaxe, a hundred miles or so north of New York. Karla is an attractive 19-year-old sophomore Biology major. Jimmy is Karla’s ex-boyfriend and a third year Sports Science Student and the …

Possibly two of the most well-known Greek literary pieces in the world are The Iliad and Lysistrata. The Iliad is a poem written by Homer, who is one of the most prominent Greek poets, while the Lysistrata is a comical play written by Aristophanes, a Greek dramatist. The Iliad portrays …

The play “Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street” is a well-scripted play, at times brutal and horrific but which I like anyways as it portrays the irony of life. I like the play also as it depicts the harsh realities of life, giving us a breather from the …

            The distinction between social classes is a primary source of conflict in Eugene O’ Neill’s play, The Hairy Ape.  This differentiation is further exacerbated by alienation, which is the result of American industrialization.             Yank is the lead character of the play.  He is a fireman, one among the …

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play written in the early nineteen hundreds. What happens is a farmer by the name John Wright is murdered and the culprit is thought to be Minnie Wright, John’s wife. This play takes place in the kitchen of John Wright’s abandoned farmhouse. This case …