Characters in plays

The discussion we were to read Los Vendidos, Trifles, and The Rising of the Moon and compare a contrast each play. With how different each play is it seemed simple to contrast them. When comparing these plays its starts with the authors and the time period when they are written. As far as that goes, these plays could not be any more different. They were performed originally 50 years apart, and 1000 miles apart. The plot of each story is also drastically diverse. However, they also share many…

out of this naive worldview is exactly what the main character experiences in the short story Acting Shakespeare. Through this growth the essay touches themes as the transition from child to adult and reality vs fiction. Tess is the fifteen-year-old main character, who tells the story from her point of view. She introduces us to her typical teenage life in a small town called…

have all agreed to consider it a morality play, a genre which quite common during the 15th and 16th century. Mostly, a moral play is a personification of moral qualities (forgiveness, charity) or an abstract idea (life, death), it was thought to be the transitional point of drama, from liturgical drama to professional secular drama. Everyman, featuring death and everyman’s summons and his journey to his grave, is considered to be the greatest morality play. However, I was asked a question during…

capacity for play.” Huizinga says that play is everywhere and he does not see play simply…

Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice serve similar roles in their respective novels. The characters are a mirror image of each other, acting the same way and holding similar opinions about marriage and love. The role that these characters play serve as a counterexample to women who followed expectations surrounding marriage at the time, which overall serves to criticize the broken marriage system. Both Beatrice and Elizabeth are oddly uninterested…

motifs often used to portray good and evil in literature. However, the one wielding each of these tools does not always have a character that demonstrates the respective morals. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams uses the binaries of light and dark to demonstrate the opposing characteristics, and power struggle between Stanley and Blanche. Throughout the play Stanley has embodied light as the unadulterated harsh reality, constantly passing his subjective judgements. From the…

of the main characters from A Raisin in the Sun is a desperate dreamer that strives to be able to take care of his family. Walter experiences the most change out of all the characters throughout the the play. The play tells the story of Walter and his family as they struggle to survive the abounding hardships that a black family faces in the 1950s in Chicago. Throughout the play, he makes countless decisions that hurt the members of his family and himself, but by the end of the play, he is able…

Freddy’s, making Youtube videos, Playing Minecraft, and writing stories on Wattpad. First of all, Playing Five Nights at Freddy’s, if you do not know, that is a game you can get onto your computer. When I play it, it has me playing as the security night guard, can’t choose any other character, and watch over the place. Sounds simple enough, but…

their bag, probably get a snack, and sit down in front of their television and spend the rest of the day playing video games. Not many people are going out and spending time outdoors with their friends. Statistics show that 49% of American adults play video games and 10% of adults consider themselves a “gamer” (Krista Lofgren). Popular video games, like Assassin’s Creed, may be the reason that many people are spending more time playing games than being in the real world. In other words, people…

Video games not only give some players a team to play for, but also a competitive setting in both single player games and competitive games. Objective gameplay is one thing that many players strive for, this being because they play a video game for completion. Weather it takes 5 hours or 1,000 hours to master a game, the players will always have something to strive for. A lot of this is seen…