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ROLES PLAYED IN AMERICAN SUBCULTURES.
Term Paper ID:30762
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Discusses two plays on how people cope with their roles in a subculure.... More...
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Discusses two plays on how people cope with their roles in a subculture. JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE by August Wilson, and AND THE SOUL SHALL DANCE by Wakako Yamauchi. How each playwright develops a strong sense of the importance of the family bond. A sense of alienation as a divisive force.
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In the plays Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson and And The Soul Shall Dance by Wakako Yamauchi, the playwright in each case develops a strong sense of the importance of the family bond as each explores the way people cope with their roles in a subculture within a larger, dominant culture that generally does not value them or their cultural background. In each case, the characters aspire to something better than they have already achieved, defined usually as economic success in the American society of which they are a part. In Wilson's play, these aspirations are found in the black community among people whose ancestors were slaves and who themselves do not feel fully part of American society. In Yamauchi's play, the characters are Japanese immigrants cut off from their homeland and from much of their own culture by great distance as well as
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TWO CONTEMPORARY PLAYS.
Term Paper ID:30671
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Analysis of David Mamet's "OLEANNA" and Peter Shaffer's "EQUUS."... More...
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Analysis of David Mamet's "OLEANNA" and Peter Shaffer's "EQUUS." Compares both as examples of a tragic fall, and as modern man's struggle to find meaning and purpose in present-day society. How their actions and events push leading characters of both plays over the edge; their fall from grace.
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This paper is an examination of two strong figures in contemporary American drama, both professional men who are faced with situations that cause them to question their choices and confront their weaknesses. John, in David Mamet=s Oleanna, is a college professor whose smug superiority is shaken by his encounter with a female student. Martin Dysart, in Peter Shaffer=s Equus, is a child psychiatrist who has already begun to doubt his powers when he takes on the case of a teenaged boy accused of a horrible crime. Both provide interesting examples of a tragic fall as outlined by a master playwright, and the contrasts between these two figures hold a mirror to modern man=s struggle to find meaning and purpose in present-day society.
Oleanna (1992) begins with an exchange between a college professor, John, and one of his students, Carol. He has given her a
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"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."
Term Paper ID:30659
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Analysis of the Tennessee Williams play. Centers on main character of Blanche as a symbol of tradition and idealism. The conflict between Blanche and Stanley. Stanley as a symbol of the new culture. Themes of loss, denial. Brutality. Belief in magic vs. reality. Blanche as an intiricate and complex character; her flaws. Tragedy of the play.
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Funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths--not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, and sometimes it rattles, and sometimes they even cry out to you, "Don't let me go." As if you were able to stop them! --Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire, Act 1, scene 1.
Blanche is a symbolic representation of tradition and the idealism of old southern culture. She sees herself as she would like to be all the while denying what she actually is by trying to seem special or different than everyone else. Stanley, is her opposite, the symbolic representation of the new South through his sexuality, his violence, his overall brutishness. The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorizes the struggle between old-style culture and new, crass, hands on blue-collar strength.
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"THE DUTCHMAN."
Term Paper ID:30631
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Discusses racial issues in Amiri Baraka's one-act play.... More...
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Discusses racial issues in Amiri Baraka's one-act play. Examines thesis of play that the characters (black male and white female) are trapped in their roles over which they have no control. Analysis of the two characters and their interactions. Character of Lula as one-dimensional white liberal. Clay as heart of the play.
Paper Introduction:
Amiri Baraka's one-act play The Dutchman examines racial issues, specifically those contained in a relationship between a white woman and a black man. The play above all portrays these two characters as beings trapped in their roles in a play over which they have no control.
Lula is an aggressive and flirtatious Eve-like character whose sole purpose seems to be to simultaneous mock and seduce her black counterpart Clay. Clay's name suggests a malleability, and Lula is more than willing to mold him to her wishes. Unlike Clay, Lula seems one-dimensional, fixated on possessing Clay sexually and psychologically, and then driven to kill him when he dares begin to stand up for himself at last.
Clay is clearly the character most important to the playwright. Clay is at a crossroads in the play, and Lula plays a
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AFRICAN AMERICAN DRAMAS.
Term Paper ID:30616
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Compares and contrasts two plays of the 1960s.... More...
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Compares and contrasts two plays of the 1960s. James Balwin's BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE, and Amiri Baraka's THE DUTCHMAN. Examines ways in which violence affects the lives of African Americans and role racism plays in violence. Intent of both playwrights. Stereotypical mythsof white women and black men in Baraka's drama.
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“The Dutchman” and “Blues for Mister Charlie”
For many African-American writers and dramatists, the issue of race and how it impacts on human relationships and societal perceptions is a theme of enormous significance. Two of the most powerful literary voices in the African-American community are those of James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones). Both Baldwin and Baraka have written prolifically and in a variety of mediums. This brief report however, will compare and contrast a single work by each author. Baraka’s play, The Dutchman and Baldwin’s play, Blues for Mister Charlie address the ways in which violence affects the lives of ordinary African-American men and women and in which a fundamental racism in American society renders these individuals vulnerable to violence.
W. J.
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"M. BUTTERFLY."
Term Paper ID:30526
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Essay Subject:
Discussion of various elements of David Henry Hwang's play.... More...
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Discussion of various elements of David Henry Hwang's play. Funding. Choice of director. First performance of play in 1988. Success of the play and Tony Award for Best Costumes. Physical and symbolic description of the set. Musical selections. Characters. Plot and issues of the play. Purpose of nude scene. 2 illustrations.
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M. Butterfly is David Henry Hwang’s intriguing dream of love and intrigue. The producer of this particular play was Stuart Ostrow and according to Mr. Hwang, the idea was presented to Ostrow, who provided some start-up funding for the writing of the project. The project was based on a two-page treatment that Hwang sent to Ostrow. Ostrow kept the treatment and was able to reproduce it the night M. Butterfly won the Tony. Hwang was a bit inured by the fact that he had proposed a musical and Ostrow produced musicals. Upon confrontation, though, Ostrow was enthralled by the piece and insisted on taking it straight to Broadway rather than working it through a regional theatre program first as Hwang felt was necessary.
Ostrow suggested director John Dexter as the proposed director for this play. Dexter originally began acting while in the a
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JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.
Term Paper ID:30495
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Essay Subject:
Examines theme of justice in Susan Glaspell's play 'TRIFLES."... More...
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Examines theme of justice in Susan Glaspell's play 'TRIFLES." Action and setting of the one-act play. Plot of investigation of a farmer's murder. Wife as the husband killer. All male legal system. Theme of abused wife who kills her abusive husband and how the women of the play decide the murder was justifiable.
Paper Introduction:
This research examines the theme of justifiable homicide as the experience of finding justice in Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles. The research will set forth the pattern of ideas in the work and then discuss the means by which it illustrates the emergence of justice.
The action of Trifles takes place in the winter of 1916 and is confined to the kitchen of a farmer's wife. It takes place in the aftermath of the peculiar strangling death of the farmer. The wife of the sheriff, Mrs. Peters, and a friend of hers, Mrs. Hale, whose husband discovered the body, are gathering personal things for the farmer's wife, who is being held in jail. While Sheriff Peters, the county attorney, and Mr. Hale set about looking through the house and barn to search for evidence that might be useful in a trial, the women busy themselves in the kitch
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SUSAN GLASPELL'S "TRIFLES."
Term Paper ID:30170
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Discusses the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships.... More...
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Discusses the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships. Characters, plot, setting, dramatic conflict. Different meaning of common household "trifles" to the male and female characters as a key to the play's resolution. Different ways of seeing and interpreting of male and female characters. Theme of traditional rules of society vs. justice.
Paper Introduction:
Susan Glaspell' s classic 1916 one-act play "Trifles" is a character driven drama that pits the wits and empathy of female
characters against the blinding arrogance of the male
characters. Set in a bleak, Midwestern farming community, the
plot centers around a murder investigation. Minnie Wright has
been arrested by the sheriff for the murder of her husband John
after saying that she just woke up in bed beside the body of her
rope-strangled husband. What the sheriff needs is proof of Mrs.
Wright's guilt in the form of motivation and evidence. The
dramatic conflict of the play is the search for evidence and how
that evidence is interpreted. The setting of the play is the
gloomy kitchen of the Wright's farmhouse.
The play's five onstage characters include the County
Attorney George Henderson, Sheriff Henry Peters, his wife Mrs.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
Term Paper ID:29965
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of the character of Blanche DuBois in the Tennessee Williams play.... More...
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Analysis of the character of Blanche DuBois in the Tennessee Williams play. Blanche's duality; her illusions vs. reality; conflicts between her sexual & spiritual longings. Blanche's threat to the domesticity of Stella and Stanley. Clash between Blanche and Stanley regarding her insistance on illusion and his on reality. Stanley's belief that Blanche's illusions are ruining his home, and his rape of her to shatter her illusions. Blanche's destruction. Stella and Stanley to live with illusion that he did not violate Blanche.
Paper Introduction:
In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois is a character whose duality becomes apparent as the play progresses. She holds herself out to be one sort of person with one sort of background, but in fact, her life has been very different from what she pretends. For her, the illusion is a necessity in order to continue to live. For her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, the illusion is an affront and has to be exposed. In the character of Blanche, the duality derives from a conflict between sexual longing and the spiritual side of her nature in a world that sees the two as separate, when in fact they are combined in every person.
Blanche sees herself as a martyr and is always referring to the way life has treated her. The loss of her and Stella's childhood home is a key reference point. Blanche's character is
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"FENCES."
Term Paper ID:29818
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Essay Subject:
Discusses the August Wilson play set in the 1950s.... More...
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Discusses the August Wilson play set in the 1950s. Conflict between father Troy and his son Cory. Troy's relationship with his family; his sense of responsibility. His bitterness over past and present racial discrimination, including being kept out of the all white major baseball leagues. The different symbolism of the fence to Troy and to Cory.
Paper Introduction:
FENCES
One often wonders whether fences were built to keep people out or to keep them in. August Wilson’s play shows us both sides of that old adage. Troy has just finished serving fifteen years in prison and now has an honest job. Upon returning to his life, however, he wants to rule the lives of his wife, Rose, who is more than willing, his injured brother, Gabriel, who doesn’t understand the world’s realities any more, and his son, Cory, who dreams of going to college and playing football, but whose dreams are shattered by his father’s different dreams for him.
It would be easy to say that Troy destroyed his family, and, eventually himself. Wilson searches far deeper for the reasons Troy does and says what he does. It is the 1950s, and slowly things are changing for American’s blacks. Yet, the change comes too late for Tro
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"THE PIANO LESSON."
Term Paper ID:29817
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of August Wilson's play set in the Depression era.... More...
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Analysis of August Wilson's play set in the Depression era. The piano as a protagonist of the play. Its representation ob black history and transition from past to present. Monetary and symbolic value of the piano. Wilson's use of music in his plays. Different interpretations of the American Dream. Struggle between the past, present and future.
Paper Introduction:
THE PIANO LESSON
Inside this book, there is a review from the Washington Post which says, in part “The piano is no less vital a sign of a family’s spiritual heritage than Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard was.”
In a sense, the piano itself is the protagonist of this play. It was stolen from a white man. It represents not only black history -- the pain of slavery and the greater pain of some sort of limited freedom. It also represents a sort of transition from the past to the present (Berniece and Boy Willie, for example) and the future (eleven-year old Maretha). The piano also symbolizes some little wealth -- it is obviously worth money. Boy Willie wants to sell it for his share to buy into his piece of the American dream -- a hundred acres of land down
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"TWO TRAINS RUNNING."
Term Paper ID:29816
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Discussion of August Wilson's play set in 1969.... More...
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Discussion of August Wilson's play set in 1969. Impact of urban renewal. Displacement of poor blacks and black neighborhoods by modernization. Focus on characters at Memphis' diner. Three main male characters. Wilson's concept of the American Dream. Limitations white society places on black men.
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TWO TRAINS RUNNING
When there seems to be no hope, people turn to something that just might provide hope. With many blacks in the North that means “playing the numbers”. As Wolf, the neighborhood numbers runner explains it:
It’s the same thing as putting money in the bank. This way you might taker out more than you put in…but Mellon ain’t gonna let you do that. The numbers give you an opportunity. If it wasn’t for the numbers all these niggers would be poor (Wilson, 1992, p. 3).
The year is 1969, and the worst event that could happen to the characters at Memphis’ Diner is the fact that this old diner is going to have to have to come down, in order for big new sky
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"SEVEN GUITARS."
Term Paper ID:29815
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of the August Wilson play set in 1948.... More...
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Analysis of the August Wilson play set in 1948. Playwright's depiction of the African American experience. His use of a jazz and musical idiom to delineate his characters in a life separate from white society. African American culture as the play's protagonist. Lack of opportunities for black men in the 1940s. The protagonist as an African American culture, not an individual.
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SEVEN GUITARS
August Wilson focuses on the one way that blacks can try to develop their own culture. “Wilson continues his weave of African-American experience through a larger and sometimes hostile American culture” (Grant, 1993, p. 1). Wilson uses a jazz and musical idiom to delineate his characters and their success or failure in a life separate from white society. This was 1948. The veterans were building Levittowns and going back to work. The Negroes who had moved up North from the South to work in war-time industries in Detroit and Pittsburgh were now being displaced by returning veterans. It seems the one sure way of making a name for a Negro in those days was in music. This was the time of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, Count Basie,
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"TRIFLES."
Term Paper ID:29770
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Gender issues in Susan Glaspell's one-act play.... More...
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Gender issues in Susan Glaspell's one-act play. How women and men look differently at the world, at one another, and at circumstances. Plot involving women cover-up of a murder to protect an abused wife. Women as more aware of the nuances of their environment then men.
Paper Introduction:
What Women Know
In Susan Glaspell’s one act play, Trifles, the reader or
audience is challenged to recognize that men and women “know” and learn in different ways. In the play, a crime has been committed in which John Wright, who has been known to be “a hard man…. Like a raw wind that gets to the bone" (Glaspell, p. 463) has been found dead in his own bed with a rope around his neck. His wife, the former Minnie Foster, has been arrested for the murder. The sheriff, county attorney, and a man named Hale have come to the Wright farm to investigate the circumstances of what is clearly a murder. They are accompanied by the sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale who learn why the murder has occurred simply because as women they are more aware of the nuances of their
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"THE GLASS MENAGERIE."
Term Paper ID:29317
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of the Tennessee Williams' play.... More...
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Analysis of the Tennessee Williams' play. Thesis of the play. Character of Laura. How her development throughout the play influences the evolution of the thesis; her move from illusion towards reality and back to illusion. Laura's mother as the driving force behind her daughter. Role of Tom and of the Gentleman Caller.
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Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
INTRODUCTION
The Wingfield family in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is one that is held together by the bonds of illusion, dysfunction, and entrapment. Amanda Wingfield lives in a lower middle-class apartment that Williams tells us is “symptomatic of the impulse of this largest and fundamentally enslaved section of American society to avoid fluidity and differentiation and to exist and function as one interfused mass of automatism” (Williams, 1945, 400). Amanda and her two children, Laura and Tom, are enslaved in different ways. Amanda is a slave to a past when the bloom was not off the rose, so-to-speak. Tom is enslaved by pity for his mother and sister that keeps him working in a warehouse job he h
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"DEATH OF A SALESMAN."
Term Paper ID:28929
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Essay Subject:
Examines Arthur Miller's play as a tragedy as defined by Aristotle in the "Poetics." Contends play is not a true tragedy but a social comment.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Examines Arthur Miller's play as a tragedy as defined by Aristotle in the "Poetics." Contends play is not a true tragedy but a social comment.
Paper Introduction:
This research examines Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as a tragedy as defined by Aristotle in the Poetics. The research will set forth the context in which Death of a Salesman has been labeled a tragedy and against which it can be measured based on Aristotle's theory, and then argue that, although Miller's play is undoubtedly a serious drama and undoubtedly shares certain attributes with the classical definition, to consider it a tragedy in the Aristotelian sense would be to misconstrue Aristotle's definition and to grant too much interpretive power to Miller's own view of what he calls tragedy and the common man.
In order to show the relationship between Death of a Salesman and Aristotelian theory of tragedy, it is useful to examine Aristotle's definition of tragedy, which he says is
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"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."
Term Paper ID:28373
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of Tennessee Williams' play from perspective on how characters reflect different attitudes toward dreams & reality.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analysis of Tennessee Williams' play from perspective on how characters reflect different attitudes toward dreams & reality.
Paper Introduction:
In A Streetcar Named Desire, the playwright has crafted a well-designed play in which the characters reflect different altitudes toward dreams and reality, and these characters are differentiated by the degree of illusion they require to function in this world. This clash represents the theme, which is that people often need illusion in order to survive. Stanley Kowalski is the character seen as most realistic, and his directness conflicts with the need for illusion of someone like Blanche DuBois. His friend Mitch is something of a romantic, while Stanley's wife also takes a realistic position to counter her own romantic nature, though in the end, she also accepts an illusion in order not to destroy her marriage. In this world, those who require the most illusion are also the most easily destroyed when reality intrudes, and Blanche is destroyed by Stanley's version
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Williams: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Term Paper ID:27906
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Essay Subject:
Discussion of conflict between Blanche & Stanley, illusion & reality, in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Discussion of conflict between Blanche & Stanley, illusion & reality, in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
Paper Introduction:
In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, a key conflict in the play is the threat Blanche poses to the domesticity of Stanley and Stella, and from Stanley's point of view this is bound with his belief in reality as contrasted with Blanche's desire to live by illusion. Stanley is a character who is open and direct. From the beginning of the play he is made to seem elemental. The first line of the play is Stanley yelling up at his wife, "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" (p. 13). He tosses her a package of raw meat, emphasizing his brute nature and the sexual relationship always between them. He is rough and crude, but he is also honest and open. He says what he means and challenges anyone to dispute him. Stanley is happy with his domestic life as it is, and Blanche enters and disrupts all that.
When Blanche and Stanley first meet, both are uneasy. Stanl
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"THE LAST YANKEE" (ARTHUR MILLER).
Term Paper ID:27040
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Essay Subject:
Analyzes one-act satirical play about the inability of marital partners to connect with one another.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analyzes one-act satirical play about the inability of marital partners to connect with one another.
Paper Introduction:
In his play The Last Yankee, Arthur Miller presents two marriages under strain because of differing needs and perceptions by the husbands and wives who once thought they shared everything and who now believe they share less and less all the time. New feelings have emerged to replace the feelings of love that began these marriages, and these new feelings include anger, resentment, anxiety, self-doubt, and disgust. The couples might survive if each member could learn to forgive his or her spouse, but instead, each person is too taken up with a need for self-justification and self-preservation at the expense of his or her spouse.
The story is set in a state-run mental hospital, and three women are being treated there for clinical depression. Patricia is married to Leroy Hamilton, a carpenter, and she believes he is
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"THREE TALL WOMEN" (EDWARD ALBEE).
Term Paper ID:26685
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Essay Subject:
Analyzes fictionalized, psychological play about the author's complex & unlikable adoptive mother.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analyzes fictionalized, psychological play about the author's complex & unlikable adoptive mother.
Paper Introduction:
Edward Albee's Three Tall Women is a remarkable play about an unlikable woman near the end of her long life. By means of its clever structure it dissects her life and character very thoroughly. This woman, identified only as A by the author, is completely unsympathetic but eventually, as understanding grows, she becomes, if not likable, at least comprehensible as a full human being rather than the caricature she at first appears to be. In the first act three characters, simply called A, B, and C hold a long conversation in a richly appointed bedroom. A is 92 years old, terribly fragile, and drifts from lucidity to brief moments of confusion, or indifference, as to her whereabouts. B is a 52-year-old woman who is A's care giver and C is 26, a young lawyer who has been sent by her firm to tend to details of A's estate. In the second act the three very different personalities
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"DEATH OF A SALESMAN" (ARTHUR MILLER).
Term Paper ID:26679
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Essay Subject:
Analyzes play as example of psychological realism. Style, characterization, plot, theme.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analyzes play as example of psychological realism. Style, characterization, plot, theme.
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Psychological realism delves into the mental states of characters and seeks the underlying causes for their actions, causes rooted in their psychology. The style of the play need not be realistic in the usual sense, and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is such a play. The set and the way the action moves from place to place is not realistic but expressionistic, but the psychological picture created for each character and the way characters interact is real and rooted in mental states, and the connection between the two generations is the key issue.
The character of Biff is a reflection of his father and carries on in his own life the same sorts of failures seen in his father. It is Willy's wife who states that attention must be paid to the life of Willy Loman. She understands him and his problems, and she forgives his shortcomings. She is, after all,
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U.S. THEATRICAL CENTERS.
Term Paper ID:26624
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Examines 8 theatrical centers in U.S.: Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center, Music Center of L.A., 5 more.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Examines 8 theatrical centers in U.S.: Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center, Music Center of L.A., 5 more.
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This research will examine the eight top American theatrical centers in the U.S. The research will set forth the background for the establishment of performing-arts centers in certain major urban areas of the country and then discuss the focus of each such facility, with a view toward identifying the attributes of each center's operation and the scope of activity in which each center engages.
To adequately appreciate the standing that a performing arts center has in any major urban area, it may be useful to look at the social function that the concept of performing arts has served in the U.S. in general. From the acting company formed by William Hallam in 1752 in Williamsburg, Virginia (Hewitt 12-12), to the present day, theatrical performance appears to have held popular appeal with the public at large. On the other hand, there appea
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"THE ZOO STORY" (EDWARD ALBEE).
Term Paper ID:26256
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Analyzes tragedy & comedy of communication & lack thereof between play's two characters.... More...
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Analyzes tragedy & comedy of communication & lack thereof between play's two characters.
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Edward Albee's play The Zoo Story is a play about communication, or rather, the lack of communication between people who believe they are communicating. The play is both comic and tragic, for the same lack of communication which brings laughter can the next moment bring pathos as the consequences of isolated human beings (human beings who cannot or will not communicate openly and honestly) brings death, even murder, or murder by suicide.
The play features two men, Jerry and Peter. Jerry is either mad or so eccentric and troubled that he might as well be mad, and Peter is conservative and completely ignorant of the world beyond his little married life. On one level, the men appear to be trying to communicate, although there are obvious roadblocks to that end.
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"DEATH OF A SALESMAN" (ARTHUR MILLER).
Term Paper ID:25569
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Examines central role of past & present family relations in character development.... More...
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Examines central role of past & present family relations in character development.
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Willy Loman's tragedy in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is partly the result of his being out of place in a business world that has passed him by, but it is mainly the result of the fact that he never had a secure place within his own family. Willy was abandoned by his father and unable to find an adequate replacement in his older brother Ben. The result was that he looked for love in the wider world and failed to do anything that would enable him to find love in his own wife and two sons. Willy believed that all he would need in terms of respect, admiration, and love could be found in the world of business where the men he admired had flourished. But, when events gradually prove to him that this has been an illusion, he turns back to his own family and discovers that he cannot find these things with them either. Willy Loman abandoned his own family--
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"GLASS MENAGERIE, THE" (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS).
Term Paper ID:25568
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Analyzes family dynamics (parent-children & sibling-sibling) of play.... More...
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Analyzes family dynamics (parent-children & sibling-sibling) of play.
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Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is a play about an incomplete family in which each character is expected in some way to take the place of the missing member in order to make the family function. The play is about Amanda Wingfield, whose husband abandoned her long ago, and her two adult children, Tom and Laura. The play centers on Tom's guilt as he looks back at the last time he was together with his family. Following the visit of a "gentleman caller," who was the family's last possible hope of replacing the father, Tom abandoned his mother and sister--although he had no idea how they could care for themselves. Tom feels guilt and sorrow but he never says that he had any other choice. There was no way that he--any more than Laura or the visitor--could take the missing father's place and the audience is left to conclude that Amanda probably had to do
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"ALL MY SONS" (ARTHUR MILLER).
Term Paper ID:25536
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Analyzes morality of behavior & attitudes of characters, impact of immoral actions, role of conscience.... More...
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Analyzes morality of behavior & attitudes of characters, impact of immoral actions, role of conscience.
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Arthur Miller, in his play All My Sons, sets forth dramatic arguments about the negative impact immoral behavior has on people. This study will examine the behavior and attitudes of the characters in moral terms and the inevitable harm that such behavior has on the people in their lives as well as on people they will never even meet. Although some of Miller's arguments are social, political and economic, at heart all of those arguments are moral.
Early in the play, the discussion among the characters revolves around whether or not it is right for Chris, one of the Keller sons, to ask Annie to marry him. Annie has been the girl of another Keller son, Larry, who has apparently died. The characters do not know it at this point, but Larry has died not in action in the war, as the reader is led to believe, but by
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"I DON'T HAVE TO SHOW YOU NO STINKING BADGES" (LUIS VALDEZ).
Term Paper ID:24969
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Examines comic play's social criticism & depiction of Chicano family assimilated into suburbia.... More...
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Examines comic play's social criticism & depiction of Chicano family assimilated into suburbia.
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In his play I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges, Luis Valdez makes use of certain stereotypical images in order to delve into questions of the relationship between the actor and the role he or she plays and between those roles and the reality of similar roles in society. He does this in a comic format which turns certain American entertainment conventions upside down for satiric effect. The familiarity of the television situation comedy is recreated on stage with a very different kind of family and with a different purpose.
Luis Valdez is the founder and artistic director of the internationally-known El Teatro Campesino, the theatrical troupe he created during the Great Delano Grape Strike of 1965. The productions of this group have been acclaimed throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe and have received an
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"WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF" (EDWARD ALBEE).
Term Paper ID:24883
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Examines play's plot, characters, themes, psychological aspects, title.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Examines play's plot, characters, themes, psychological aspects, title.
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Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? brings together two couples in a college town, one couple older and more experienced, the other younger and new to the academic world, for a night of psychodrama approaching outright psychological torture. The older couple has clearly performed this ritual many times before, and over the course of the night, while they pass through a series of stages leading form one interpersonal position to another, they cannot be said to be changed by the experience. After all, as noted, they have tortured one another like this before and will do so again. On this night, Martha may give away more secrets or take the drama in a different direction, but still the couple has done this before. The younger couple, on the other hand, experience something new which challenges their view of the accepted order and tests their view
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"RAISIN IN THE SUN, A" (LORRAINE HANSBERRY).
Term Paper ID:24844
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Play's themes, plot, characters, values, social & racial views.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Play's themes, plot, characters, values, social & racial views.
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The purpose of this research is to examine Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas and events in the play and then to discuss the means by which this pattern is elaborated in the action, as well as the sociopolitical context in which the playwright's intended effect of the play on the audience can be most readily identified.
The action of A Raisin in the Sun in general involves what people want and what they are willing to pay to get it. Indeed, describing what the characters want very much describes what the play is about. The Youngers, an extended black family, share the dream of escaping their two-bedroom Chicago tenement and everything it represents. How the dream should be fulfilled now that an insurance legacy is coming their way marks the main level of co
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"GLASS MENAGERIE, THE" (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS).
Term Paper ID:24812
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Essay Subject:
Symbolism & imagery in development of characters & ideas in play.... More...
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Symbolism & imagery in development of characters & ideas in play.
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The purpose of this research is to examine the use of symbolism and imagery in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The plan of the research will be to set forth in general terms the pattern of ideas emerging in the work, and then to discuss the symbolic and imagistic means by which the pattern is elaborated, the ideas are given concrete representation, and the combination of dramatic and thematic content given emotional expression.
The action of The Glass Menagerie is built around Tom Wingfield's memory of a family of sometimes violent and often pathetic emotions, and of the just plain sad fate of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura, who each in her way is doomed when it comes to coping with the realities of the outside world. The difference between them is that Amanda is a survivor and Laura a victi
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