Korean drama

“Don’t talk about something you don’t know anything about” (26). Trying to hold a conversation with someone as though you’ve been everywhere and learned everything will end up making you look like a fool, and a rude fool at that. After all, events and past experiences play a major role in one’s understanding and character. In “Death of a Salesman,” past experiences have a strong presence in Willy’s current actions. His words throughout the work bring forth irony and elicit pity from the reader…

Tragedy is an intriguing genre of drama that made its official debut in around 500 BC in Athens. According to an article from Grand Valley State University, the origin of Tragedy can be traced back to groups of men singing s choral lyric to honor the Greek god Dionysus. Throughout history many famous authors were made great because of their skillful ability to captivate audiences with the story of a tragedy. Aristotle helped to outline and define what both a tragedy and a true tragic hero should…

The “Phantom of the Opera” expresses that pity and fear can change the way a character acts or feels about another. The pity of the movie shows more about the love because Christine was in love with the Phantom because of his troublesome past. The fear part is to show that people feared the Phantom and he would kill people or threaten to do so. Some events that were expressed by fear or pity are when Madam Giry saved the Phantom from his beating as a childhood; another is Raoul having the fear…

Throughout Arthur Miller’s novel, “Death of a Salesman” there are many obstacles faced by the characters. This play demonstrates the insecurities brought about from the protagonist, Willy Loman when he continuously decides to conceals the truth. This is revealed through conflict among the characters within the play. Miller’s novel illustrates the indecisive side of Willy and how he always faces a problematic situation. Different conflicts are displayed between one of the focal characters, Willy…

I liked the play because it gave a good description on the murder of Amyas Crale. The play described how Caroline Crale had murdered her husband by the coniine that was put in his beer. The coniine is extracted from the hemlock plant. The hemlock is the same plant that killed Socrates. When Amyas Crale drank the poison, he started to have cramps and pains as he slowly died. Crale complained that the beer tasted foul. As he painted Elsa Geer, his hands started to ache as the poison was going…

Po-Po-Piggety-Poetics (An Analysis of Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s film Juno base on Aristotle’s Poetics) F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” Dramatic theatre is one of the oldest and most respected art forms in history. Aristotle outlined what he believed to be the most logical sequence for a tragedy in his essay Poetics. These ideals can be applied to any modern day text to evaluate its traditionalism…

hard to make all of the voices clear, but when some of the actors were talking I couldn’t make out what they were trying to say. The quiet voices made it harder to follow the smaller plot line of the play. “I find that a rising problem in today’s dramas is that actors…

The tragic story of Willy Loman and his ultimate demise show how a person’s obsession with wealth and popularity can keep you away from achieving true happiness. The exhilarating roller coaster ride Death of a Salesman is a story based in 1950’s New York that is focused on a middle-aged man that travels throughout New England selling merchandise. Although his job may sound boring, it is his family life and his flashbacks that occur often throughout the play that keep the reader interested. The…

College of Charleston’s production of Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim was a joy to watch. This play uses familiar fairy tales and strings them all together with a central storyline. Todd McNerney, the director, creates an atmosphere that brings the inner child out of adults and serves as quality entertainment for kids. This production offers great music, acting, and design; which are paired with a great script and music from Lapine and Sondheim. Even though the play had…

William Shakespeare revolutionized character development and the formation of intricate plots. His innate ability to form these lifelike characters and trace their lives through interaction and complexity became so relatable and famous because his plays represent the human condition. In his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare depicts the emotionality, conflict, and mortality in the interactions of his characters and in doing so represents each as an individual. This representation of the…