Play Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 8

The two best words to describe women in the 19th century were housewives and mothers. Some may ask why so? In the 1900s, men were perceived as the superior gender and degraded the women’s role in marriages. As a woman in the 1900s, their duty was to cook, clean, take care of the children, and…

Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie is a memory play that is narrated by Tom Wingfield. The whole play is solely based off what Tom remembers about his family. Tom introduces the audience to his mom Amanda and his sister Laura. He briefly explains that his father abandoned them many years ago. Laura introduces us…

From the minute we are born we are put into one of two categories, boy or girl. No one asks if a person would like to be considered something else. There is no choosing. There is also no mention of any grey area, just black or white. Society has evolved in a way where attached…

According to recent dramaturgical studies of Greek Theatre, “The association of women is with matter and the body, and men with form and the soul. It is the legacy of ancient Greek thought which gendered the physical universe according to social convention: women were considered to be passive and therefore acted upon by the formative…

The world of Julius Caesar is very similar in some ways to the events and incidents that occur today. From the tragedies, to the brotherhood, to conspiracies that led to disasters, every negative and positive event that happened in this play can relate to the real world today in some way. Don’t get me wrong,…

Cassius thinks he is superior to Caesar, and is envious that Caesar has accomplished such a high station. Julius Caesar can relate to the political world. How does Julius Caesar relate to the modern world? The political viciousness, corruption, and self management of Julius Caesar’s Rome reflects the current US political scene the more things…

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennesse Williams about the Wingfield Family. Williams uses different symbols to represent each character’s perception of life. Tom Wingfield is an aspiring poet who watches movies during his spare time and enjoys his alone time smoking on his fire escape. The movies, fire escape, and poetry…

Fear can lead to a lot of things, however in humans it usually ends with something bad. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible shows this in multiple occasions. The play’s characters choices and final decisions gives examples of how fear can steer peoples actions into dishonesty and wrong judgement. Through emotion. Fearful of gaining a bad…

Ambition is a desire or want for something which usually is good but not necessarily. Macbeth showed that ambition is not always the best thing. For him ambition was not even on his mind until he got power, and once he got power he just craved more and more. His ambition at first was to…

At times, things that may seem far from the past and irrelevant to our lives today are very much like today’s world and can teach us a lot. With all our modern conveniences and troubles, one might be tempted to think that Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” has little to do with our times and concerns. Just…