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The Christians Critique The Christians investigates the consequences that occur when the pastor of a megachurch announces that there is no hell. This jarring claim made at the beginning of the play sets the stage for many future conflicts and obstacles. Performed at the DeWitt Theatre on Hope’s campus, the play did an excellent job of encouraging the audience to think about what his or her spiritual responsibility is as a parent, spouse, or congregation member. Furthermore, I noticed that the…

Introduction The purpose behind this presentation for theatre appreciation is to evaluate and understand each step in producing a performance. From each point-of-view, the director to the marketing and each in between, we got the see how to breakdown a production before bringing it to life. My Role By choosing to do the role of director, I wanted to get a deeper view. Since this is what I intend to do one day for a career, I felt it was my style. Now, if I had the chance to do this again, I…

Oresteia by Aeschylus to the comedic The Frogs by Aristophanes, Greek plays demonstrate tragedies and comedies that today’s society would deem beyond belief. Of these prominent theatrical works is the scandalous tragedy of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This drama combines incest and murder to attribute to the calamitous life of Oedipus Rex, king of Thebes. With a prophecy that predicts Oedipus’ doom, this Theban king creates chaos for himself, brings order to the catastrophe he has bred, and…

n the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, it focuses on how self image takes a part when others try to restore the struggle between hallucinations and the present. The protagonist, Willy Loman is introduced to the readers as an ambitious salesman who is not successful. Willy fails to understand his reality so he creates a fantasy world to disguise the fact that his life is a failure. The play revolves around the last days of his life when the real world destroys his dreams he had for…

Unit 4 Individual Project (Dramatic Writing and Poetry) The dramatic one-act play used for this project is entitled The Stronger, written by a man named August Strindberg in the year 1889. The characters in the play are two females known as Madame X and Mademoiselle Y. Madame X is very well spoken and proper. She appears to come from a higher class of society from the proper way that she speaks as well as the way she spoke of having servants. Madame X seems to be a very opinionated and…

Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” is a very interesting story. It is about a girl who dresses like a guy, who falls inlove with a guy, who loves the girl who loves her. Act two Scene four The duke (Orsino) is telling Cesario (Viola) that he can tell hes inlove with a young woman named Olivia. Cersario is trying to change Orsinos mind about it I saw two different short clips of this video, similar in content, but almost completely different. Each video had its own techniques, and feeling. The first…

Shakespeare is a writer that has many great stories like “Hamlet”, “Julius Caesar”, “The Tempest”, and many more, but Shakespeare's stories have similar themes and plots with other famous books. That is the case of the story “Macbeth” and “The story of the fall” from Genesis chapter 3. In both of these stories, the greed and ambition of mankind affects both sets of characters and plots of the Bible story and “Macbeth”. However, the good comparison Shakespeare used in “Macbeth” from the Bible…

The Consequences of Uncontrolled Emotions The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their…

Authorial Intent Essay: Arthur Miller As a man thrusts himself across the world he must figure out his inspiration for the work he has dedicated his life to. When looking at Arthur Miller's theatre writes, he uses visualizes real world events and human tragedies in his work. When looking back at Arthur Miller's early work “The Death of a Salesman”, the story hinges on a man who is betrayed by his own moral values, and the repercussions of society. In a famous quote, Arthur mentions…

As human beings, none of us are perfect, we each have our own flaws, those of which sometimes can bring about great misfortune. In literature when this occurs to the protagonist it is referred to as, “hamartia” or tragic flaw. According to Aristotle, tragedy involves a protagonist of a high socioeconomic class who falls from prosperity to misery through several reversals and discoveries as a result of such “hamartia". This protagonist is known as the tragic hero. Tragedy depicts the downfall of…