Danse Macabre

was wine. All these and security within. Without was the “Red Death”.”(Poe, par. 2).Also, Dudley supports this idea again when he writes “Prospero and his guests attempt to immure themselves safely within a world of art, but their ball becomes a danse macabre” (Dudley, par. 4). Prospero thought if he had provided all the luxuries of life he and his guests could be safe from the outside…

Despite offering a different character’s point of view, several of the dramatic techniques resident in Miss Julie are exhibited. Even more importantly, Strindberg again insists on placing the family of the play in the context of a Darwinian battle of the strongest. It is natural for us to expect similarities between The Father and Miss Julie due to the close proximity of their writing, but the points made about Strindberg’s later work help provide an additional insight into the playwright’s…