Play Essays

Greek authors, when one considers the time period in which they lived, are relatively simple to distinguish from one another, particularly in how they treat Greek myth in relation to the message they aim to convey to their audience. Homer and Sophocles use myth to reflect their different perspectives on …

Ibsen presents Pastor Manders throughout the play as a preacher, a priest who tries to lecture the other characters and invite them to religion and morality. Manders is shown as a wise man try to guide this family as the father has been a womanizer and has been recently dead. …

Have you ever heard the saying ‘’ the truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.’’ Well behind that there is another question, Is it always good to know the truth? Some say the truth will either break or make a person. Would you rather live …

Q1. Choose two of the passages(a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow. You must not repeat the same ,material for answering more than one question’ (25) (a) Macbeth: Besides this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his …

Romeo and Juliet are the most famous pair of lovers in Western literature, but is their love real, or is it just infatuation? Some people claim that Romeo and Juliet are just melodramatic teenagers. Others argue that the Romeo and Juliet’s love is the kind of love everyone should aspire …

Compare and contrast the way the a struggle for power is presented in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams and ‘Making History’ by Brain Friel. How far do you agree that the struggle for power has a more devastating effect on Friel’s O’Neill than Williams’ Blanche? Power is definable …

Shakespeare changed the nature of drama in England. Arriving in London in the last decade of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare began his play-writing career by adapting the forms of already-successful plays – plays about historical characters (both English and Roman), the Senecan ‘Tragedy of Blood’, Romantic Comedy and plots centering …

He was born in 1564. He wrote very many plays and stories, including but not limited to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. At 18 he married Holly Wood star Anne Hathaway. He is considered by many to be the greatest writer in recorded history. He had two children, Hamnet …

In both Animal Farm and Macbeth, the characters battle with conflicts that have stemmed from their extreme ambition. In Animal Farm, Napoleon desires power, and he goes about changing the rules by which the animals have agreed to live in order to put himself in charge. As the novel progresses, …

How far do you agree with the view that the contrast between Iago and Othello is the most important contrast in the play? In the play Othello, there are many forms of contrast, one of which is the contrast between the characters of Othello and Iago, which could be argued …