Essays on Plays

In the poem “Ozymandias”, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the entirety of the poem can be related to Shakespeare’s, Macbeth. Ozymandias and Macbeth seem to share many beliefs and similar attitudes. The first and most obvious similarity between Macbeth and Ozymandias is their status as “kings”. It is clear that Ozymandias ruled a kingdom and...

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family’s experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the...

Composed by Susan Glaspell, Trifles is a masterpiece wealthy in both biographical and historical components. Glaspell pivots this story on a homicide story she needed to cover as a writer and this offers the biographical part of it. The chronicled component of Trifles grows from a portion of the subjects displayed right now. Subsequently, Trifles...

Miller presents many different forms of love in the play. The love in the play has been the key to the story and provides a storyline for the play. The first type of love is romantic love. This is shown by Eddie and Beatrice. They are a married couple and showed deep romance. At first,...

Paternal power is an important theme in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Similar to most fathers, Prospero tends to his daughter’s needs and will go to any length to ensure she is secure and well protected. However, an important question to consider is what marks the line between the binding of protection and love and limiting...

Love, a complex set of emotions related to strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth, and respect for another person. As Lord Byron once said, “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” Though love is the main theme of many stories throughout the ages, in A View from the Bridge many...

  A View from The Bridge is a modern drama play written by Arthur Miller and is based in the ’50s. The play is set in Red-Hook, the American Italian neighborhood. In this play, Eddie Carbone was portrayed by Miller as a tragic hero. This was surrounded by the demise of Eddie throughout the play....

Throughout the play, Willy has consistently been portrayed as an insecure coward. From these insecurities stems his constant need for positive affirmation from other people. Willy, above all else, seeks to be liked and admired by others. It was Willy’s meeting with Dave Singleman that convinced him to become a salesman. Seeing how many people...

“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a Pulitzer award-winning dramatic work written by a famous writer Tennessee Williams. This play spins around the relationship of Blanche DuBois and her sister Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski, which represents the social values driven by male dominance and powerless women. Blanche DuBois is a Southern beauty who sticks to teasing...

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play written in 1945 that exposes how power was used and abused upon the lower class citizens in 1912. JB Priestley exposes the faults in a capitalistic society through the death of Eva Smith. The play follows the awful events that lead to her death through the power abuse of...