One-act play

A Separate Peace: Betrayal A Separate Peace has many themes represented through the duration of the book. One of John Knowles most expressed themes is betrayal. Knowles does so through various literary devices and techniques. Knowles’ setting is a tremendous contributor to the betrayal between Gene and Phineas (Finny). While Gene Forrester is at Devon there is a numerous amount of foreshadowing being used. The war, the steps, and even the tree are examples of foreshadowing being…

Second Skin The film called Second Skin is an interesting documentary that only informs the public but also make awareness of the ever growing issue of people becoming addicted to online games. The reason is since the invention of technology where it became portable and affordable to the public people have become obsessed with it. For example, if you ask an elder at what age they got a phone they would usually say when they were young adults. However, if a person asks a kid in the present day…

decide to play the submissive wife role. However, one cannot deny the transformation Kate has gone through physically as she is starved and poorly clothed and mentally as Petruchio's thoughts dictate her words. In the beginning, Kate the shrew uses her language to sting like a bee: “If I be waspish, best beware my sting” (2.1.213). But by the end, Kate's words do not sting but soothe as they flow with the status quo: “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign: one…

attempts to appease their lives that were collapsing before them. One element that was evident with many of the characters throughout the play was the attempt to maintain a performance or act like everything was okay. A design element that helped to present Archie’s struggle to live authentically were the seamless transitions between the parlor/living room and the stage with the showgirls. Instead of making clear transitions from one to the other, the characters in the den would freeze as the…

There have been countless books, movies, TV shows and plays about families and their attempt to reach success or the “American Dream”. Generally, the characters are successful in their goals. This is not so in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. In the play success alludes the Loman family despite that fact that it is something that they aim to achieve in their own ways. There are probably a number of reasons for this but this paper will look at how expectations and responsibility or the…

Walter Younger can be really hard to get along with. For most of the first act, he's rude and stirs up tension to just about every other character in the play. Walter fights against the demons of poverty and racial/social injustice that plagued his father and now seem to have a tight grip upon him.Walter describes himself as a volcano as he internalizes his regrets and pipe dreams. Walter never sees any way out of his economic distress other than the liquor store, which his mother opposes solely…

brought to light is pleasant or horrendous depends on their demeanor. Whereas one person may display integrity, another may be like Walter and have traits such as greed and selfishness become apparent. Although he exhibits a plethora of attitudes, Walter maintains a primarily negative disposition throughout the play that is supported by his distraught and erratic behavior. This behavior can be seen from the start of the play in his relationship…

The act of growing up is something we all experience. Being naive and innocent characterize the time and state of mind before this act. Our view of the world are one of the things that is affected by this naive nature. Preteens often picture an adult life and world as something magical, almost fictional and have high hopes for this adult future. Growing up and growing out of this naive worldview is exactly what the main character experiences in the short story Acting Shakespeare. Through this…

In the play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller utilize characters as a way of highlighting the features of the main character, Willy. Charley, a minor character in the play, is used as a crucial foil to emphasize Willy’s failure as a father and a salesman. It is Willy’s shortcomings that highlight the profound effect that humans and society itself have on individuals. Charley and Willy are rivals in the business world with Charley being the more successful of the two. According to Chester E.…

have too much confidence, or even don’t have the time to play competitive sports, and if more people joined, then even more would join and more-and so on. So, another reason that competitive sports is beneficial is that they could get a head start on their job ‘hunting’. For Example, they could want to be a soccer player when they grow up, and if they play soccer when they are in their early years, then they could be almost guaranteed to play it when they grow up, since they played on the team…