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B.Ananda Rao M.A,M.Phil,(Ph.D) Asst.Prof, of English Sri Vasavi Engg College, Tadepalligudem. “A study of tradition and culture in the selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Girish karnad”. INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel…

person to repentance, or condemnation torments them forever. In both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, protagonists Hester Prynne and John Proctor struggle with guilt for their sin. Both the novel and playwright take place in 17th Century Puritan Massachusetts, when adultery is considered witchcraft, and punishable by death. After Hester Prynne has an affair with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, she receives a scarlet letter to represent her sin and display…

How does the author of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen use characterisation and symbolism to explore ideas? Set in Norway in the 1800s, Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, is a memorable text that challenges the patriarchal society of that era. The playwright uses symbolism to represent the complexities of rules that govern behaviour of women in that period, and characterization to contrast the actions of husband and wife, Nora and Helmer. Symbolism and characterization are key techniques Ibsen…

How is the theme of tragedy presented in Lament and MId- Term Break? The poem lament is a famous poem written by Gillian Clarke. She was born in Wales and she was a poet but also a playwright, editor, and a translator. The poem lament is about the gulf war, which happened in August 1990 to February 1991. This is when Iraq invaded Kuwait; soon the USA and UK interfered by bombing Iraq. The word lament is an elegy this word is an expression that is used to show sorrow or grief. The title of the…

“To be or not to be-that is the question” is the beginning line from a famous soliloquy in the play Hamlet, written by none other than Shakespeare. Some say that when said that line, he was considering the big questions of life and death, while others think that Hamlet was really just thinking about his father's death and killing his uncle. I think by now we can all agree that there is a lot of controversy surrounding Shakespeare and his works. One that is very widely discussed is the idea that…

include Mark Born, Chris Wall, Reggie Rampage, and Ati Sipe. Mark Born adapted The Song of King for the Hermosa audience, marking the beginning of key Hermosa works. Chris Wall was a playwright whose comedies are likely the earliest Hermosa writing to have survived, and he also wrote poetry. Reggie Rampage was another playwright. A former slave who was well educated. Ati Sipe was an important writer…

Other writers of that era related to his work and subscribed to his work. These writers than wrote their own thoughts on the subject and their writing were named as Theatre of Absurd. There was no such thing as an Absurdist crusade taking specific playwrights fitting in that kind. The Theatre of the Absurd encompassed many miscellaneous writers such as Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett and more. TotA came to life as a result of the World War II. When both…

possibility but “if they were performed, the performances marked an auspicious beginning for women’s plays: a woman playwright and produced by women for an all-women audience within the context of a female community” (Case 35). Hrotsvitha is known to be of noble Saxon origin because only the daughters of aristocracy were admitted to Gandersheim. Her six plays imitated the works of the playwright Terence and would…

and biography. In constructing this play, Miller was absorbed by the concept that "nothing in life happens 'next' but that everything exists together and at the same time within us." There is no past to be "brought forward" in a human being, the playwright says, but he is his past at every moment and his present is "merely that which his past is capable of noticing and smelling and reacting to." Because his salesman-hero is in a peculiar psychological state, which exactly exemplifies this…

During the time of the Salem Witch Trials, many things led to the hangings of females who were accused to have practiced witchcraft. The beliefs and values of the people in this time period led them to believe that witchcraft was real and that it was the devil’s work. Dubbed heresy by Pope Innocent VIII. (Salem Witch Trials History Channel Video) The punishment of such a thing was death, and so started the hangings. Those accused were mostly women, but some men were convicted and executed as…