Play Essays

Q: Explore how far you think Williams succeeds in developing other characters. People aren’t one sided. We are all complex being and are each unique. So well developed characters should be complex and many sided as well. Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire” is filled with many characters and …

Both Henrik Ibsen and Thomas Hardy were groundbreaking authors in the Victorian era, portraying female protagonists as becoming materially and emotionally independent from their male partners. Their depictions of the breakdown of a marriage in their respective works were controversial at the time of publication, but highlight the hypocrisy of …

Although written over 150 years apart, both Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (hereafter referred to as The Lock) and Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest (hereafter referred to as Importance) share a significant characteristic – their respective elaborate and witty social satire. Wilde wrote Importance at the height of …

Like seeing a moon rising in the morning or stars replacing a clear blue sky, reversal is a common sight in Macbeth by Shakespeare. The theme of reversal is one of the most prevalent themes throughout the play. One of the first lines is the witches chanting “fair is foul, …

Othello remains relevant to a modern audience through the human experiences of thematic issues such as jealousy, duty and honour, and racism. All three themes intertwine to convey the power and effect on different characters. Jealousy is used to highlight its immense self-destructive power, whilst duty and honour reflects the …

In the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams, there is an on going battle of rivalry between Stanley and Blanche, resulting to Blanche retreating into a world of illusions in order to protect herself. The two come from completely different societal worlds and have contrasting personalities, …

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The dramatic importance of Linda links in with her life it is dreary because she always hopes that things will work out for the better yet those hopes never come true. They always fail. Her one major decision takes place before the action of the play. She chooses to marry …

Montagues • Romeo — sole heir to the Montague fortune • Lord Montague — Romeo’s father • Lady Montague — Romeo’s mother • Benvolio — Romeo’s cousin • Balthasar — Romeo’s faithful servant • Abraham — Montague servant Capulets • Juliet — sole heir to the Capulet fortune • Lord …

This play begins with a sonnet, a form of prose usually reserved for a lover addressing his beloved. The sonnet is a very structured form of prose, lending itself to order. Shakespeare cleverly contrasts this orderly sonnet with the immediate disorder of the first scene. Thus, the scene quickly degenerates …