Essays on Plays

The idea of sex and death, both in early times and today is a controversial idea. In the novels of tragedy, written in previous times, both sex and death are reflected in the texts as a conflict. But what exactly does sex and death represent? Many directly think that it only represents pleasure, but it...

Baz Lurhmann has done an amazing job with these films. These films are both visually striking and they include amazing elements of cinematography. The cinematography techniques that have been chosen to be discussed in this essay include lighting, framing, high angle shots and eye level angles incorporated in the sequences in which the heart images...

Write an essay as an answer to the following question: ‘I am not what I am’. Discuss masking and role play in Twelfth Night in relation to the questions of gender identity and the nature of the self which the play raises. ‘I am not what I am’, Viola cries, as she tries unsuccessfully to...

In Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of being Earnest Algernon Moncrieff’s closest companion, Earnest Worthing, is the owner of a destined engraved cigarette case. The case shows up after Earnest inadvertently left it at Algernon’s house. This event arranges the satire when the cigarette case, which Earnest guarantees Algernon is “his” (Earnest) cigarette case, is...

The world is designed in a particular way, through people’s perception on certain experiences, but made different by other people experiences. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, the idea of overruling truth, flaws of humanity, and different perception of others is greatly explored through different characters, with a main focus on Tom’s narration. William...

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Satire/comedy play First performance: February 14, 1895. The initial portion of the performance takes place near the city during the 1890s in London. The following half of the play occurs at Jack’s country house located in Hertfordshire. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff Jack appear to be a noble...

All My Sons (1947) is a play ‘for people of common sense […] concealed in life’ (quote IntoToPlays). It starts in an apparently placid and undisturbed environment where the Kellers – an ordinary, white, wealthy American family – live. The patriarch, Joe, seems to be quite literally the “average Joe”, a ‘man among men’ (quote?)...

Oedipus Rex is a Greek Tragedy that was written by Sophocles before the birth of Christ. The foundation of this play is based on a prophecy which said that; the son of the king will murder him and marry his mother. This son goes by the name Oedipus who is the tragic hero of the...

One of the better-known Greek tragedies is “Antigone”, written by the famous tragedian playwriter, Sophocles. Though with its fame, is it a truly effect tragedy? Through the foundations Aristotle laid out about what makes a tragedy effective, the key fundamentals to an effective tragedy are the aspects to character and plot. Regarding that, “Antigone” is...

To what extent does Apollonian and Dionysian Dichotomy present itself in the Character of Hedda in Ibsen’s play ‘Hedda Gabler’? Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’, set in the early 1890s, can be considered as an examination of the influences of a Victorian society on the philosophical mindset of young women. Various allusions to Greek Mythology throughout...