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Drama Essays and Term Papers
The Storm WithinThe title of Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm” suggests a
metaphorical connection between the storm outside and the storm of emotions
going on between the individuals Calixta and Alcee. The intensity of their
sexual act inside the house follows the pattern of the storm outside. Their
passion ...
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Gertrudes SuicideIn the Shakespearean tragedy "Hamlet," Prince Hamlet’s mother Gertrude encounters many misfortunes, which she feels that she is to blame for. Gertrude was brought into the middle of everybody’s dilemmas and thus felt responsible for the occurrences that happened to all of the ...
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Diaghilev"He fancied a career in music, but was a terrible composer. He wanted to be a painter, but lacked vision and aptitude. He wanted to change the face of dance, but had no dance training whatsoever. By his own admission, this poor, misguided soul had " no real gifts." He went on to become one of the ...
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Spike LeeThe movie, Do the Right Thing, by is a hard hitting drama that deals with violence and racism in today\'s society. This film is set in a primarily black neighborhood in close to the present time. Right in the center of this neighborhood stands a pizza parlor that is owned and operated by one of ...
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Streetcar DesireA Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a controversial film classic, adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1947. This film masterpiece was directed by Elia Kazan (his first piece of work with Williams), a socially conscious director who insisted that the film be true to the ...
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Divorce And Love"I want a divorce." These words are constantly heard on television, books and households. In the past centuries, marriage was considred sacred and divorce was a taboo that everyone avoided. Some couples chose to spend the rest of their lives with someone that they did not love anymore rather ...
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Crucible 11The Crucible is a great play about the Salem Witch trials which history has never forgotten. What is a crucible? The dictionary has defined it as a severely difficult test or experience, and indeed the play does have a difficult test in the plot of its story. The author, Arthur Miller chose a ...
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The Bogus Logic Of The Beak OfPeople who have served in the Armed Forces may be familiar with the expression, "If you can't dazzle then with your brilliance, baffle them with your baloney." The Beak of the Finch uses such laughable logic, it is remarkable that anyone would believe it. The book does such a terrible job of ...
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The Odd Couple: SummaryOn the evening of November the eighth, I saw the play The Odd
Couple, by Neil Simmon. The performance started at approximately 7:30 in
the Centennial High School auditorium. The Centennial High School Drama
Department performed this two and a half hour play. The level of
performance for this ...
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The Golden Age Of GreeceThe ancient statues and pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much
advanced in spectacular ways. The true facts of Zeus’s main reason for his statue. The
great styles of the Kouros and the Kore. The story of The Blinding of Polphemus,
along with the story of Cyclops. The Dori and ...
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Langston Hughes“Born in Joplin, Missouri, James was born into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was ...
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The Painted Door: SummaryFor a short story to be effective, it must be able to produce high
levels of intensity, emotion and drama. To do this, it must convey a great
deal of information in a short space of time. As a result, the short story
usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and
examination ...
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What To Do?: Terrorism And The MediaWhat To Do?: Terrorism and the Media
Imagine you are a resident of Jerusalem, in the year 60 AD. You are taking
a walk throughout the marketplace doing your weekly shopping. You see a man
pull out a dagger and he yells ‘death to all Romans' and attacks a roman guard,
killing him in front of ...
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Death Of A Salesman 4The idea that any person can rise from humble beginnings to greatness is the basis of the American Dream. Arthur Miller paints a harsh picture of this ideal in the drama Death of a Salesman. The main character, Willy Loman, is a complex and tragic figure. He is a man striving to hold onto what ...
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Sir John Falstaff's Influence On Prince Hal In I Henry IVIn Shakespearean histories, there is always one individual who
influences the major character and considerably advances the plot. In I Henry
IV by William Shakespeare, Falstaff is such a character. Sir John Falstaff is
perhaps the most complex comic character ever invented. He carries a ...
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Frost, RobertRobert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet of the twentieth century, has brought himself great recognition. Many critics have tried to find a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a difficult time because his writing "romanticizes the rural simplicity that he loved while probing into ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Symbols In The PlayMany symbols are incorporated into the play "Death of a Sales man" and they
in turn relate to both character and theme. The hose, tape recorder and the
seeds are some of these symbols.
The hose in Miller's drama directly relates to the theme of d eath. The
hose is a line attached to the gas main ...
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Oedipus The King: A Tragic HeroThe downfall of a hero follows from his very nature. In Sophocles
play, Oedipus the King, (reprinted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia,
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York,
NY 1995), the playwright focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes,
who is ...
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Themes In Medea1. Why does Medea kill her children:
1. Jason has betrayed her
2. Vengeance: to leave him childless in old age
3. Failed heroism
2. Revenge-drama:
1. Medea gravely wronged by Jason
1. Jason a non-citizen and exile offered opportunity to marry princess of Corinth, inherit throne
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Imagery In MacbethIn his plays, Shakespeare uses many forms of imagery. Many forms of his imagery are used in his play 'Macbeth,' including the forms of clothing and darkness. Each detail in his imagery, it seems to me, contains an important symbol of the play, and symbols that we must understand if we are to ...
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