Play Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 17

In 1959, “A Raisin in the Sun” premiered on Broadway, written by Lorraine Hansberry. The play depicts an African American family in the 1950’s that will soon be inheriting a $10,000 check. Each family member plans on using the money in a different way. Their happiness and sadness relied on their personal dreams happening or…

“My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love is it to me That I must love a loathed enemy.” Romeo and Juliet ended in tragedy. The two star crossed lovers were doomed from the start but that didn’t stop them from being apart…

The play is set in the humble but quaint household of Lena younger. She is an old widow and lives a quiet life with her son Walter and daughter Benethea. Walter is married to Ruth and has a son named Travis. Benethea on the other hand is a young and vibrant woman who dreams of…

Oedipus Rex (Oedipus The King) is a series of plays by Sophocles that was written in 430 b.c (spark notes) and is known as the classical Greek play. It’s the story of Oedipus, who trying to flee from his fate or prophecy but ends up running right into it. The play starts off with Oedipus…

At the end of Sophocles classic greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, the main character, Oedipus, responds to his unfortunate discovery in a masochistic, yet predictable manner. Upon learning of his accidental patricide and incest, Oedipus gouges his own eyes out with the pins from his mother’s dress. This self-inflicted injury, intended to blind Oedipus, is foreshadowed…

At the start we initially learn of there being a relationship between Othello and Desdemona when Iago and Roderigo are telling Brabantio (Desdemona’s Father), that ”an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”. This is an explicate reference to Othello and Desdemona having sexual intercourse, and shortly after hearing this, we become educated that…

Upon committing his first murder, Macbeth’s nervous imaginings expose his feelings of guilt while his immoral and greedy urges remain dormant. As he gains confidence and plots for his second murder, these avaricious daydreams mitigate any remorse Macbeth had experienced before. Macbeth’s proleptic imagination allows him to see the benefits and consequences of the immoral…

Lena, mother of Beneatha and Walter, makes it clear that all she ever wanted is to make her children happy and provide for them. According to A Raisin in the Sun, the family will be receiving a $10,000 insurance check for the death of Lena husband and Lena wants Walter to have the remaining $6,500….

Amanda Wingfield is the mother in Tennessee Williams’s play, “The Glass Menagerie.” Her character is intriguing as her individual qualities and character flaws makes it hard for one to determine whether Amanda is a good mother. Is she or is she not responsible for her husband leaving? Does she truly love her children or is…

In act 1 of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” the witches are talking in rhyme and they say together “fair is foul, and foul is fair”. What they say this foreshadows a significant theme in the play. The meaning of the theme is that everything that is good is bad and everything that is bad is good. This…