Play Essays

Through its various readings, “Hamlet”, has enticed more controversy than any other Shakespearean play. Written in Elizabethan times, Shakespeare succeeded in creating a tragedy that still holds relevance to the affairs of today, four hundred years after its initial appearance. Perhaps justifying its endless success, is the argument that there …

A look at the structure of a play reveals how it has been put together. The most important structural device in “Romeo and Juliet” is juxtaposition for contrast. Shakespeare repeatedly puts two different people or actions or words side by side to heighten the differences between them. Shakespeare uses foil …

The play, ‘Death of a Salesman’, uses Willy Loman’s frequent day dreams to give the audience insight into his mind. Viewing the hallucinations allows the audience to see important events in the Loman families past and also provides justification for the actions of the characters in the ‘real time’ of …

Since the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies, Americans developed an unordinary dream. It was a vision held by many who believed that through hard work, courage, and determination they could achieve a better life for themselves; this was the American Dream. Unfortunately, the hard hits from the Great Depression and …

Some characters in works of literature only appear briefly but have a tremendous impact on the literature. These characters’s significant presence often influences the actions or development of the other characters in the literary work. In Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, Ben Loman is the character that does just …

On the surface, King Lear is a pagan play, as it is set in pre-Christian England. But it has, for all that, no shortage of appeals to deity and interesting speculation. This is, after all, a play set on the brink of eternity and it must make us wonder on …

The reason behind why Act 3 Scene 1 is a major turning point is mainly because it alters the course of events and changes an entirely new route of the play, a death of two major characters. Structurally, this particular scene is in the middle of the play, but more …

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Hamlet, the main character Prince Hamlet has an inner struggle with procrastination throughout the length of the play. It is this tragic flaw of procrastination that eventually brings about Hamlet’s downfall. Prince Hamlet is given a number of opportunities Hamlet to kill his uncle/step-father Claudius …

Mama, also known as Lena, is a very memorable character. She has many attributes that make the reader admire her throughout the play, but she is also very strict. She believes in God a lot, and anyone in her family that doesn’t, or opposes God, is punished, or yelled at …

In the play “Macbeth” and the novel Lord of the Flies, the prospect of power and the corruptive nature that it has on man affects his relationship to power. Power is defined as, “the ability or capacity to exercise control; authority.” This authority ultimately leads to the unveiling of the …