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Feste's Role As The Fool
1,283 wordsIn the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the function of Feste the clown appears inconsequential, but in actuality his role has immense significance in the overall educational development of the other characters. During the seasonal holiday revelry in which this play takes place, the clown is used as an independent observer that exploits the asinine actions and the faults of the other characters. Shakespeare's contrast of Feste's true wit with the unconscious and actual foolishness of the ot...
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Malvolio Shifts From His Puritan
1,009 wordsTris Warkentin Shakespearean Comedy Twelfth Night, question 3 12/17/99 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has many different characterizations for the many different characters in the play; Or sino and Olivia represent the Renaissance and the dangers facing it, Viola represents the overindulgence of the Renaissance and the Puritan minimalism represented by Malvolio, the madman. While the other characters represent constant images throughout the play, Malvolio changes. He goes from being a bleak and pla...
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Manus Character Development
1,358 wordsWhat is Realism? Realism is the movement toward representing reality as it actually is, in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray real life on stage, a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700's. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism, character development, stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters. The arrival of realism was indeed good fo...
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Josefa's Home
330 words"The Day of the Swallows" I found this play to be beautifully written and yet, unusual and different to the rest of the play we have read. The storyline was really captivating and it spoke about a topic that is usually shunned by the Latino community. Josefa is a powerful character, a lesbian and a character that exposes the passions that lay inside human beings. Josefa is loved and admired by the entire town. She is thought of as an angel that gives light and beauty. Alysea is a young woman tha...
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Eddies Statement Explains M
392 wordsActor: Gavin Kane Character: Eddie Play: Fool for Love by Sam Shepard Super Objective: Eddie wants May to understand just how much hes gone through to come and see her. He wants her realize his love for her even though he has done somethings that would cause her to doubt him. Eddie needs to be with May, she is a security for him and no matter what he will keep coming back to her. Scene Objective: In this scene, Eddie is trying to get May to go with him to Wyoming. He wants her to realize how goo...
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Portia's Character
942 wordsWhen William Shakespeare wrote, The Merchant of Venice, he included a female character that influences the play dramatically. In most of Shakespeare's plays, the women have little power and intelligence. In The Merchant of Venice, however, Portia is a woman that saves the life of a man with her wit and intelligence. Another woman created by Shakespeare that posses qualities similar to Portia is Beatrice, from Much Ado about Nothing. Both women add to the main themes of the play because of their ...
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Relationships Of Dionsyus Pentheus And Aphrodite Hippolytus
799 wordsComparison Of Bacchae and Hippolytus In the plays Bacchae and Hippolytus, many similarities and differences exist between the relationships of the characters. One similarity between the relationship of Pentheus and Dionysus in Bacchae and that of Hippolytus and Aphrodite in Hippolytus are the tragedies caused by the gods to these characters. These tragedies are caused by the lack of respect towards the gods. In both the plays, there is hostility between the divine and human characters. In both t...
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Mr Solness
313 wordsHilda has met both Mr. and Mrs. Solness before. When she comes to see them, however, it is not to pay them a courtesy visit. She has a specific purpose, which is very surprising, given her modern and quite mature appearance. Hilda turns out to be an exceptionally regressive person. She demands that Solness keep his presumed promise made ten years earlier, when she was a girl just entering puberty. At that time Solness came to her home town in the North to build a new church, and in a girlish way...
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Scene Between Don Gutierre And Doa Leonor
2,244 wordsHonour was one of the prominent issues in the Spanish Golden Age dramas of which Caldern and Lope de Vega were the main exponents. Indeed, the play is called a "drama de honor". The very fact that Caldern chose to include the word 'honra' in the title of the play 'El Mdico de su Honra' indicates that indeed a certain element of honour must be present within. One must find out whether honour is the principal cause of the play or if other themes hold more importance. In the "Diccionario de Autorid...
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Rivalry Of Figaro And The Count
1,394 wordsImagine that you were at a performance of The Marriage of Figaro in 1784. Write a review of the play for inclusion in a main-stream journal of the day. Last night I finally saw the long awaited sequel to The Barber of Seville, long awaited not for its theatrical value, but perhaps because it has been rumored that upon its presentation to his royal highness Louis XVI, the King was to have remarked that such a play could never be allowed on stage. Fortunately for us he did not stand by this apprai...
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Guilty Of The Manipulative Desires For Marriage
738 wordsAll the Wrong Reason to Marry The work that will be discussed in this essay is the "The Importance of Being Ernest" and it was written by Oscar Wilde. The topic of marriage in this play involves the manipulative desires and dishonest values of marriage. The female characters in this story including Cecily, Gwendolen, and Lady Bracknell are all guilty of scheming and controlling marriage. The desires and mentalities of these women are identical to the women of the Victorian Period. The men in thi...
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Works Use Several Feminist Characters
502 wordsFate And Feminism In both Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, the reader is pushed to understand the nature of feminists ina new way. This purpose is carried out with the use of multiple feminist characters, a drastic change in a characters outlook on their situation, and the concept of making your own destiny. The protagonists in both of these literary works is female, and they are amazingly similar considering Shaw wrote Pygmalion eighty seven years before T...
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Angelo And Isabella
2,221 wordsAct II, Scene 1 To no avail, Escalus pleads with an adamant Angelo to have pity on the life of Claudio. Angelo does not really consider Claudio's crime to be something major, but he is intent on carrying out the 'measure of the law' and to be strict with all offenders who break the law. As a result, he orders Claudio to be executed the next morning. Escalus is grieved over Claudio's fate, but is helpless to stop the execution. Elbow, a constable, enters with Froth and Pompey in custody, both gui...
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Last Archetype In The Play
1,486 wordsThe famous psychologist Carl Jung believed that the universe and all of its inhabitants are made up of a measureless web of thought called the collective unconscious, it's suggests that the collective unconscious is rooted in the genetic code of every living thing. This collective unconscious is evident in an individual's personality, which is comprised of five separate personalities blended together; these are called archetypes. In Jungian psychology, there are five different archetypes: the sh...
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Meaning Of The Play In Beckett's Mind
572 wordsSamuel Beckett was born in Ireland in 1906. His family was both relatively well to do and fairly eccentric. Athletic and imposing, Beckett was also awkward and socially maladjusted. This all comes to play in "Endgame" where we see the twisted remains of two couples, interacting with a brutal vocabulary. Beckett's early life is particularly linked to the exchanges between Nagg and Hamm; ostensibly a father-son relationship that has ceased to be anything but an exchange of abuse. In an early draft...
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Romantic Garden
949 wordsThroughout Arcadia, Stoppard uses the motif of the garden to explore the differences between classical and Romantic characters, and the change from strict order into specially designed chaos that the garden goes through, is reflected both in Hannah, Bernard, Thomasina and Valentine, as well as the play as a whole. Indeed, the fact that Stoppard called his play Arcadia, that is a garden idyll: paradise on earth, indicates how significant the garden is and how much it represents. On a very basic l...
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Just Zastrozzi And Verezzi
2,225 words"Walker is a down to earth blue-collar playwright with a vibrant, vivid, deliberate style of play writing; there's no dramaturgical chicanery in his work. But there is a rough and ready quality in it that is very refreshing". - Neville-Andrews George Walker is a Canadian playwright who has achieved a sort of underdog-like success. Walker's sharpened sense of comedic irony along with his unique patterns of thought have contributed to his success and his being one of the most widely produced playw...
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Little Sister The Male Characters
834 wordsHeroes Aren't Always Heroes (A comparative essay of the men in Joan Macleod's Hope Slide and Little Sister) Joan MacLeod presents the men in The Hope Slide and Little Sister in two vary different ways. The men in The Hope Slide are kept at a distance and presented as heroes. The reader is left to make a judgment on their character based on Irene's biased opinion, when in reality they could be the opposite of what she describes. The men in Little Sister, on the other hand, are a major part of the...
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Play Bernie
2,335 wordsTitle Sexual Perversity In Chicago Author David Mamet Character Joan S. Webber 1. How do you relate to the (a) plot, (b) mood, (c) the theme of the play? Describe and explain EACH. A) I relate to the plot of the play just as the other characters, I am trying to make my way through the sexual and emotional mind fields of the singles in Chicago. B) I relate to the mood of the play through my actions which play a small but vital role. C) 2. What is your super-objective? This is a statement about wh...
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Rev Chasuble And Miss Prism
650 wordsOscar Wilde's play, The Importance Of Being Earnest, is an example of his use of "dandyism". Throughout the play he uses humorous depictions of class tensions and delights in the play's characters' confused sense of values. Lady Bracknell is perhaps the choice character to use to make a mockery of materialistic, middle-class society. She is a highfalutin Victorian lady who stresses good breeding above all other matters. When she is informed that Jack has asked Gwendolen to marry him, she quickly...
