Play Analysis Wild Party The given circumstances are 1. Queenie is a vaudeville performer, and Burrs is a vaudevillian clown. This information influences the play because it tells the audience how Queenie and Burrs met 2. Later on in the song Queenie Was a Blonde the audience learns that Queenie is sexually ambitious, and no one can satisfy her until she meets Burrs. During the opening number, it is mentioned that “and fireworks flew, her passion ignited, she was smitten…now Queenie and Burrs were…
In the 1600’s one of the most horrific things in history happened….. The Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of 20 people, most of whom were women. Within this play, most of the characters deal with great struggle from within. Whether to keep your name, to forgive your husband or to follow your heart. What would you…
Cesario, Sebastian. A deeper analysis of the play, however, proposes that the significance of these romantic couples is not to institute heterosexuality as the societal norm, but rather challenge the idea that gender and sexuality are social constructs. Over the course of the play, the characters demonstrate how gender is not a firm role given at birth according to our genitalia and that sexuality is not as black and white as this time period made it seem. In the play, Viola does not just dress in…
Play Analysis of Antigone The play begins in front of the palace where Ismene and Antigonê are discussing the death of their brothers Eteocles and Polyneices. Antigonê feels strongly about burying Polyneices although her uncle, Creon, has forbade it. King Creon has delivered an edict stating whoever buries Polyneices, a traitor to Thebes, would be stoned to death. This initial incident is the beginning of Creon's hubris. Shortly after he makes this statement, it is discovered that Polyneices…
How I Learned to Drive is play about growing up and going through the different stages of life. Li’l Bit, the protagonist of the play, went through having an uncle that took advantage of her while she was growing up and dealing with the scars that it left her. The play is written in a way that is easy and allows the readers to follow along, but it is also written to make that the Uncle Peck is the one to blame and victimize Li’l Bit as well. Paula Vogel, the playwright, used characterization to help…
full-size hammer” (Henig, 42). In this way, pretend play functions as a way to fulfill different divergent roles as a child, without the actual responsibilities of wielding a hammer. When studying the young girls’ education, Russ and Wallace write that “The school encourages experiential, hands-on learning through ‘tinkering stations’ in the hallways and real-world engineering projects in the community” (Russ & Wallace, 302). The girls’ pretend play in this scenario is influenced by the hands-on learning…
Mrs. Mary Rorke English 102 1st Nov. 2005 "A Doll House" A critical Analysis When Nora slammed the door shut in her doll's house in 1879, her message sent shockwaves around the world that persist to this day. "I must stand quite alone", Nora declared after finding out that her ideal of life was just a imagination of her and that all her life had been build up by others people's, specifically her husband and her dad ideas, opinions and tastes. Nora is the pampered wife…
Plot Structure:The first complication of the play seemed to be when Alice was left alone upstairs and she was talking to Lydia then Aunt Hannah came up and Alice had mentioned that Lydia and her found the key to the chest and were going to open it and then Aunt Hannah tried to convince Alice to get in the chest to hide from Lydia and Alice refused and Hannah started to drag her to the chest. (pg.18 starting at line 16- 22 ending at line 22). This is a complication because a complication builds up…
The play Abigail is about ten years after the Salem witch trails. Salem is where Abigail was the antagonist for the events that occurred there and lead to the deaths of those all accused of witchcraft. Abigail ran to the outskirts of a town she tends to the sick and her gardens. She has changed her name to Ruth Meadow and is haunted by the events of her past. When she is tending her garden one afternoon a sailor by the name of John Brown approaches her and says that he is sick and that he heard she…
"Nortan, with dazzling insight and astonishing meticulous and detective work, takes us well past the surface explorations of Salem Village quarrels into the deeply complex story of what happened and why. This is a brilliant book, wonderfully conceived and executed, and it gives reality to the expression 'a landmark achievement." -Bernard Rosenthal, author of Salem Story. This book was very informative and very detailed. You can tell just by reading this book that the author did a lot of research…