Essays on Plays

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Relating The Theatre of The Absurd and Symbolist Poetry

2 pages / 846 words

Relating The Theatre of The Absurd and Symbolist Poetry 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 Paul Valery's Asides is a poem about the loss of faith, desire,...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Waiting For Godot

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Language, Consciousness and Experience in Ulysses and Waiting for Godot

8 pages / 3572 words

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot and James Joyce’s Ulysses are strikingly similar in style, content, and most significantly a philosophy of life. The idea of language as doubly futile and liberating is central to both works. It is found in the playfulness of language in...

Ulysses Waiting For Godot

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Post-bomb Era in The Spy Who Came in from The Cold, Apocalypse Now, and Waiting for Godot

3 pages / 1521 words

After the chaos of the atomic bomb and the carnage of World War II, precedence was placed on government constructs to supply order to a tense climate, particularly in finding direction in a new ‘East versus West’ conflict. In John Le Carre’s mid-twentieth century novel,...

Waiting For Godot

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The Psychological Aspect of Waiting for Godot

4 pages / 1901 words

Beckett condemns humanity that’s ailing from positive schizophrenic disorder, whereby the symptoms are hallucinations and delusions. The protagonists are in a treacherous illusion that their “personal god” (30) can resolve their existential crisis and indulge in complex metaphysical arguments resorting to the tormenting Wait for...

Waiting For Godot

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Waiting for Godot by Beckett: a Theatre of Absurd

3 pages / 1657 words

“…man cannot endure for long the absence of meaning. And meaning, in it most basic sense, is pattern. If man cannot find pattern in his world, he will try by any means at his disposal to create it, or at least imagine it” (Webb 55)....

Waiting For Godot

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Bleak Tones and Visual Sadness in Waiting for Godot

3 pages / 1569 words

When the Paris curtain opened in 1953 the audience was faced with a minimalist set with a tree and nothing else. The first sight of ‘En Attendant Godot’ suggests its bleakest tones are presented by Beckett through visual sadness and the overall metaphysical state characters...

Waiting For Godot

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Motifs and Symbols in "Mother Courage and Her Children" and "Waiting for Godot"

1 page / 773 words

Although Waiting for Godot and Mother Courage and Her Children are quite different in terms of plot structure and setting, there are similarities present in the use of bleak imagery as symbols of religious, social, and political criticism. The symbolism extends beyond the imagery and...

Waiting For Godot

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A Study of The Mystery Behind Godot

2 pages / 850 words

In Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, spend the entire duration of the text waiting for the illusive Godot, leaving the two in a cyclic and repetitive course of events as they wait for him to appear. Although...

Waiting For Godot

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Samuel Beckett’s Achievement in His Absurd Comedy, Waiting for Godot

3 pages / 1694 words

In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the playwright bestows upon his work the veneer of comedy, but invests the heart of it with the “absurd”, the tragic. He employs the gags and the routines, the circus comedy and the songs of the “lowbrow” arts, to...

Waiting For Godot

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The Use of Folly Language in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

2 pages / 1153 words

Following the near apocalyptic end of the Second World War, an overwhelming state of fear and confusion would go on to cause a major shift in the artistic expression of the day. Nothing remained sacred as doubt replaced any virtue of knowledge, hope, or stability....

Waiting For Godot

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Sexual and Gender Identities in Twelfth Night

3 pages / 1513 words

Because disguise and mistaken identity is such a central theme in many of Shakespeare’s comedies, so too then is gender ambiguity, with many female characters disguising themselves as men. The fact that young male actors played these characters, making them a boy dressed as a...

Twelfth Night

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Epic Resolutions: The New Mass Epic, Normalcy and Journalism in Ulysses

4 pages / 1800 words

In the “Aeolus” chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus tries to express to Professor MacHugh that he has “much, much to learn” about Dublin, but that he also has a “vision” (Joyce 119). Whether his vision pertains to the city or to his artistic...

Everyman Ulysses

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Doctor Faustus Vs Twelfth Night: High and a Low Plots

3 pages / 1375 words

In both plays, Twelfth Night and Doctor Faustus, there exists a high and a low (or comic) plot. This plot division serves as a parallel – the actions and characters in the low plot coincide with the actions and characters in the high plot. The...

Doctor Faustus Faust Twelfth Night

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The Humanitarian Side of Two Knaves in Twelfth Night: Malvolio and Parolees

5 pages / 2346 words

Malvolio and Parolles both appear as relatively unlikable characters due to their inflated egos, and convince themselves that they are socially greater than they are in reality. In Twelfth Night, Malvolio, a mere steward, behaves with utter scorn and haughtiness to the nobles whose conduct...

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

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Exploring Gender Expectations and Dating in Twelfth Night and as You Like It

5 pages / 2288 words

Although some Shakespearean plays carve out a more passive, male-defined role for women, such as that which is exemplified through Ophelia’s obedience to Polonius in Hamlet, the comedies of As You Like It and Twelfth Night explore women’s potential for unexpected honesty, especially within the...

As You Like It Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

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Analysis of Comic Characters in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

4 pages / 1770 words

In a Shakespearean comic setting where chaos, asininity, and insolence reign, the very qualities of comic irreverence become virtues. A comic hero or side character who relentlessly pranks stooges and straight men for the audience’s enjoyment is likely to win the viewer’s appreciation. Yet it...

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

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Various Meanings of Love in Twelfth Night

2 pages / 829 words

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare illustrates love in various forms and suggests that, like beauty, the true meaning of love exists in the eye of the beholder. Love is seen as bordering on insanity, a frivolous game of ever-changing affections, and the cause of bizarre behavior....

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

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The Functions of Comedy in The Twelfth Night

4 pages / 2075 words

Salinger (1974) calls Twelfth Night a “comedy about comedy” in which Shakespeare demonstrates his “fundamental debt to the earlier Renaissance tradition of comic playwriting and his abiding sense of detachment from it” (pg 242), and it is from this point that this essay will discuss...

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s Use of Sexual and Gender Ambiguity in Twelfth Night

10 pages / 4880 words

“Sex is one of the constants in human experience; sexuality, one of the variables.” 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 Bruce Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England....

Twelfth Night William Shakespeare