Drama films

Midsummer Night’s Dream Response/Lit-Crit Paper In the early Eighteenth-Century, drama transitioned into "Sentimental Comedy" which embraces high moral ground, sex, and satire. The audience is moved not only to laughter, but also to sympathetic tears. While the Restoration Period in England literature was undergoing a shift towards highlighting the middle class and poor, not every critic was enthusiastic for the new writing style, one William Shakespeare excelled at. Samuel Pepys, an English…

interesting background which is believed to have an effect on his later writings and observations. He was a prior politician, priest, and military leader. In his piece, Antigone, Sophocles focuses on humanism and the achievements of man. He used this drama to explore the dilemmas in human existence, but in turn shows how powerful man can be. Sophocles begins the chorus of this piece by proclaiming how wonderful the…

Character (MILDRED HAYES) In the Movie “The Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” I cannot overlook the stiff and hard persona of Mildred Hayes, the bereaved mother who has had it with the failure of the local police department to find the person (s) responsible for raping and murdering her daughter. Of all the Characters in the movie, I think Mildred was perhaps the worst, albeit a victim of a crime. I find Mildred interesting because she’s the only one that stood out to me. Mildred, in my view…

Hello ---, I am reaching out on behalf of Vineyard Theatre to let you know about our newest show that your department may find interesting. Vineyard Theatre’s world premiere of THE AMATEURS by Jordan Harrison and directed by Oliver Butler. We feel this production is relevant to theatre history programs as it is based in 14th century Europe, with medieval pageant players on the run from the plague. The Amateurs features a 14th century pageant cart players traveled with and used to perform in…

Opera, the Composite Art of Music I like to read a novel, and one of my favorites is “The Children of the Rune.” At the middle part of the story, the main character who has a great talent for music attempts to make an opera named ‘Maximilien’ for his travel cost. It was the first time I encountered an opera, one of the most famous musical genres as a part of the novel. I was 9 years old when I read that novel; therefore, I did not know the exact meaning of ‘Opera’ at that time. What I just knew…

Irony is a figure of speech which describes intended meaning that is different from the real meaning .In simple words; it is a difference between the appearance and the reality... Irony is very important in the literary works because it helps to make a close connection between the reader and the literary work itself. I t is important to make the readers think more and more to understand the events in the literary work and get the messages and themes of the writer. It is often that irony in…

Musicals and plays like Heathers, Hamilton, Next to Normal use costume design in order to portray the characters wearing them through various mediums. Heathers is a musical written by Kevin Murphy and Laurence "Larry" O'Keefe in 2014 based on the film from 1989 (“Heathers the Musical (Musical) Plot & Characters”). The musical is a story about a girl, Veronica, trying to fit in at her high school by leaving behind her friends to be a part of…

Aristotle was a greek philosopher who proposed a set of characteristics or traits which are to be used as criteria when evaluating characters and their status as tragic heroes. Put in a condensed manner, they are as follows: a tragic hero must have noble stature, be a victim of hamartia, be responsible for his own downfall, be admirable and pitiable, gain wisdom and repent before death, and conjure a cathartic release of emotions from the reader. These traits will be used to evaluate, by form of…

“I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! (Miller 1902). Arthur Miller, a successful American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 and former alumni from the University of Michigan, in his play, Death of Salesman, published in 1949, describes the unsettling story of a hero of tragedy whose own fragile mental state unfortunately presents his downfall. Willy Loman seems like an ordinary man who attempts to embody the American dream of success, however, behavioral…

In the play, “The Death of a Salesman,” by Arthur Miller, the characters exhibit a dichotomy to one another through their morals, actions, and ethics. An example would be Biff and Happy Loman, two brothers who are nearly opposites of one another. As the story progresses, we can perceive the numerous differences— rather than similarities—between the two brothers through their aspirations, relationship with Willy, and their perspective of life. First of all, their aspirations for their future…