Essays on Plays

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The Summary of Pygmalion

2 pages / 980 words

Summary of Pygmalion On a summer season night in London's Covent backyard, a gaggle of assorted persons are gathered collectively under the portico of St. Paul's Church for security from the rain. Among the workforce are Mrs. Eynsford-Hill and her daughter, Clara, who are ready...

Pygmalion

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The Tragic Heroes of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi

6 pages / 2603 words

In Chapter Three of Leech’s The Critical Idiom: Tragedy (henceforth shortened as Tragedy), the traditional Aristotelian view of a tragic hero is defined as an exalted person, usually of high rank, who is held because of said rank “in a position of recognizable eminence” (34)....

Character The Duchess of Malfi

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Pursuit of American Dreams in Literary Works

2 pages / 781 words

The American Dream is the idea that everyone living in the US has a uniform chance to attain their dream through perseverance, hard work, and aspiration. Some personalized dreams could be earning success, obtaining money, or winning the love of your life.The sentence could be...

A Raisin in The Sun American Dream Book Report

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Unavoidable Destiny: Flannery O’connor’s Southern Adaptation of Oedipus Rex

3 pages / 1470 words

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood is a powerfully unsettling novel concerning a lost man in the grotesque, dark world of the American South. Published in 1949, Wise Blood’s protagonist Hazel Motes serves as a reflection of the power of mythology that continues to assert itself in...

Novel Oedipus Oedipus Rex

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The Problem of Value in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

4 pages / 2030 words

Why, she is a pearl Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships And turned crowned kings to merchants. (2.2.81-3) The...

Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare

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Chaucer’s Use of "Tender" in Troilus and Criseyde

2 pages / 810 words

Chaucer is known for his talent at pushing his readers to step outside their preconceived notions regarding genre, characters, and themes. In addition to this, Chaucer uses words with double meanings to create ambiguity and depth throughout his works. Troilus and Criseyde is no different...

Troilus and Cressida

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Inevitability of Criseyde’s Choice

3 pages / 1145 words

In Troilus and Criseyde, a Trojan prince, Troilus falls in love with Criseyde who is a beautiful widow. Pandarus who is Troilus’ friend and Criseyde’s uncle, helps Troilus by making Criseyde fall in love with him by fair means or foul. Troilus and Criseyde’s relationship...

Troilus and Cressida

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Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: The Frivolity of Femininity

2 pages / 961 words

To be female is to be frivolous and inconstant. This is the position that Geoffrey Chaucer takes in his love poem, “Troilus and Criseyde”. The lovely Criseyde, with whom Troilus falls madly in love, is the epitome of frivolity and inconstancy, in her actions as...

Troilus and Cressida

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Explore and Analyse Webster’s Treatment of Women and Their Status in Society as Presented in The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi

5 pages / 2117 words

Webster’s decision to cast strong female characters as the protagonists in his two most popular plays could have been considered highly controversial and unexpected by the audiences of his time. This unintended effect immediately seems to prompt a critical questioning of his rationale. The initial...

Literature Review The Duchess of Malfi

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Existential Models of Love in a Doll’s House and The Seducer’s Diary

5 pages / 2052 words

According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are three categorizations of people based on their motive and actions: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. In The Seducer’s Diary, Kierkegaard presents the character of Johannes as a typical aesthete who centers his life on the single-minded pursuit...

A Doll’s House Kierkegaard

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The Balance of Power in a View from The Bridge and The Lion and The Jewel

2 pages / 1135 words

Many plays use the balance of power as a theme to drive the plot forward and to define their characters. In A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, the patriarchal figure of Eddie becomes a tragic hero through his loss of power and reaction...

A View From The Bridge Literature Review

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Relations of Othello and Mustafa Sa'eed

4 pages / 1915 words

On the surface, William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966) are very similar. The title character of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a man of color whose marriage with a white woman, Desdemona,...

Literature Review Othello William Shakespeare

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Individual Against Society in a Doll’s House and Porphyria’s Lover

2 pages / 1130 words

Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess critique Victorian society’s restrictive patriarchal values which suppressed a female’s endeavors for individualism. Meanwhile, Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House condemns the pretense of an idealistic marriage within a social hierarchy through his female protagonist, Nora. Both...

A Doll’s House Robert Browning

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The Roles of Captain Wentworth and Cleopatra in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

6 pages / 2955 words

Placing Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion and William Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra side by side, one observes an interesting parallelism in the manner in which the protagonists are portrayed. Though the views and opinions of Austen’s Anne Elliot and Shakespeare’s Antony are expressed directly and...

Antony and Cleopatra Jane Austen Persuasion

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Shakespeare, Welles, and Style: Auteur Techniques in Othello (1951)

3 pages / 1487 words

Introduction Othello is a 1951 Shakespearean drama produced, directed and adapted by Orson Welles who also stars as the titular lead. It is also considered one of the greatest acting performances to be showcased by the auteur. In this essay, I will be analysing the...

Literature Review Othello William Shakespeare

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Similar Views on Human Nature in Macbeth and Oration on The Dignity of Man

3 pages / 1159 words

Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, Macbeth, eloquently displays the wildness of human imagination and the consequences of rapid action. The play’s plot is written by the ominous whispers of Macbeth’s conscience, which lead to avaricious and selfish reasoning. Macbeth’s character, as well as other pivotal characters in...

Literary Criticism Macbeth William Shakespeare

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The Quest for Truth in Oedipus Rex

3 pages / 1483 words

Frank Kermode writes in his book The Genesis of Secrecy “We are most unwilling to accept mystery, what cannot be reduced to other and more intelligible forms. Yet that is what we find here: something irreducible, therefore perpetually to be interpreted; not secrets to be...

Oedipus Rex Sophocles

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Defining The Soul of Oedipus: Sophocles’ Play Alongside Plato’s Republic

5 pages / 2292 words

Translations of Sophocles’ play are generally interpreted in one of two ways, ‘Oedipus Rex’, meaning Oedipus the King, or ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’, meaning Oedipus the Tyrant. The exact distinction between the two titles is undefined, though through the lens of Socrates’ five characterizations of the soul,...

Oedipus Rex Sophocles

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Physical Sight Vs. Non-physical Sight in The Oedipus Plays

2 pages / 938 words

The genius of Sophocles’ Oedipus Plays is enriched through the many levels of interpretation that can be explored by each individual reader. One major area left open for interpretation is sight. It is divided into two categories, “physical” sight and “non-physical” sight. Physical sight is...

Oedipus Rex Sophocles