Essays on Play

Shakespeare’s writing for his speeches captures an audiences’ attention. In the play, King Henry IV Part II, Shakespeare writes a soliloquy about a monarch who is angry and frustrated with the inability to sleep. Shakespeare uses diction, imagery, and syntax to evoke the feelings of the King to display his mind set. As an individual…

Shakespeare wrote many plays that the younger generation would not have a clue as to what he is trying to say without the help of an instructor.Plays and poems are not understood by many people without the help of their peers making it easier for them to understand. Shakespeares plays are really hard to understand…

The play Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee to inform its readers about the injustice of a law that limited the freedom of an ordinary citizen. This play is based upon the upon actual events that happened to an individual, John Scopes, in Dayton, Tennessee during the 1920s. This…

The title of this play is called Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. This is a playabout a man who picks a poor person off the street who sells flowers named Eliza Doolittle. The mans name is Henry Higgins. Henry makes a bet with another man named Pickering. Thebet was to see if Henry could make…

The show takes place in Chicago, Illinois in the 1 920s. It starts with Roxie Hart’s cold-blooded murder of Fred Casely. Roxie convinces her husband Amos that the man was a burglar, but then the police inform him that she knew the man and Amos gives her up to the cops. She is sent to…

Macbeth, a Play for our Time. The Irony and SymbolismSuch is the genius and so great is the scope of Shakespeare’s writings that there can be little doubt that a common perception is one of an imaginative mind concocting stories. In fact Shakespeare had many sources and much of his work was based on historical…

Many people are usually conflicted between two decisions, whether or not to do it. The factors that lead to their decision making or actions are conscious and unconscious. These conscious and unconscious decision makers are called the superego, ego, and id. The concept of the superego, ego, id, and how they affect a person’s behavior…

Scott LeeDr. BrowningEnglish 1020July 22, 2001Romeo and Juliet: From Play to Big ScreenIn 1596, William Shakespeare published the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.The origins of this story are uncertain but Shakespeares chief source for his adoption of the story was from The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a poem by…

Les Miserables known in English as The Terrible is a musical portrayal of the French Revolution. It is a musical tragedy, which served as a major powerhouse competitor for Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals in the early eighties and nineties. When first debuting on Broadway in 1987 it traveled a long hard road to compete with…

Harold Blume said it best when he said, “Hamlet is deaths ambassador to us.” Throughout Hamlet, we have the images of death, decay, rottenness, and corruption pressed upon us. The imagery corresponds with the plot of the play perfectly, all culminating with the gravedigger scene. The corruption images illuminate the actions of the people in…