Wendy Beckett

Twelfth Night is a play which does not end happily for all its characters. Did this add to or take away from your enjoyment of the end of the play? In the concluding act of ‘Twelfth Night’, Act Five, there is a mix of emotions for all of the characters. During closing stages of the play, several of the characters are unhappy and confused, whilst others are happy and excited. During the play, one of the main themes is unrequited love. This always means that some would end up being unhappy…

He was heavily influenced by the philosophical struggle created by Samuel Beckett in Waiting for Godot. Both stories depict two protagonists in a democratic relationship exploring the absurdity of the human condition. By focusing on the waiting experienced in life, both stories depict the inevitable “down time” experienced in…

Hard Times is a novel written by Charles Dickens which judge the English society and tells us about the social and economic pressures of the 19th century. Hard Times is a Victorian novel and is very realistic. Victorian novels bring about realism in literature. Dickens novels are realistic depiction of Victorian society like class consciousness, rapid urbanization, poverty, child labor etc. Dickens talk about love, aspiration, human passion and Hard Times is a novel written by Charles Dickens…

“The Morse instrument was ticking furiously. Mr. Cashell interpreted: […] ‘Can make nothing of your signals.’ A pause. […] ‘Signals unintelligible. […] Examine instruments to-morrow.’” As two soldiers try and fail to communicate through a wireless telegraph due to mechanical failures, an eavesdropper unknowingly sits at the center of a manmade storm of misinterpretations in Rudyard Kipling’s Wireless. In the story, we follow an as he arrives at an apothecary to witness Mr. Cashell, the nephew…

stage direction, parallels, uncertainty, and a tragicomedy approach in order to show that Estragon and Vladimir’s lives are meaningless. This also extends to eventually convey Samuel Beckett’s larger commentary on the purpose of human existence. Beckett wants to show how every individual’s life has no purpose or meaning. Before any thorough analysis can be made, it is important to understand the larger, extended metaphor that is this play—a metaphor for humankind. This idea is first introduced…

Though brief and comedic, Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” offers insight into the basic ideas of his philosophy about freedom vs confinement. Sartre is able to portray the applicability of this philosophy to daily life though the commonplace setting of the work and the diversity of the basic character types found throughout the play. The main principles behind this one of Sartre’s philosophies are detailed through the three main characters, Cradeau Inez and Estelle, and their confinement to a…

Samuel Beckett, who similarly used theatrical silence and long amplified pauses for a innovative effect, heavily influences Harold Pinter’s work. The objective of this essay is to define ‘Silences’ and Pinter’s uses of pauses as a theatrical technique used in the form of non verbal communication between characters of Ben and Gus in Pinter’s, The Dumb Waiter. His plays can be studied on various levels of in depth readings. The sheer complexity of his work is what conveys these different diverse…

Multilevel sets, flashback device and role switching are the noted theatrical techniques of Dattani to juxtapose the past and the present effectively.The use of multi-level sets helps in connecting the past with present. “Mahesh Dattani’s plays are played out on multi-level sets where interior and exterior become one, and geographical locations collapse. In short, his settings are as fragmented as the families who inhabit them” (Dhawan and Pant 35). It is interesting to note the comments of John…

Swami Vivekananda who, in words of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble his Irish devoted disciple), breathed India. He was a personality of multiple facets – a thinker, a philosopher, a saint, a preacher, a leader, a reformer and so on. Very few people know him as a Poet. The English poetry in India brought by the ending years of the nineteenth century has chiefly taken the form of a revival of cultural patriotism, highly necessary for a nation. It also has religious impact on it in the…

beautiful plays∙ This astonishing play has two acts ∙ This play refers to the ‛ Theater Of The Absurd’∙ The mission of this type of theater is to showed the audience what can happen when human existence has no meaning or purpose ∙ Samuel Beckett is one of the pioneers of showing the binary oppositions in his plays with his characters that are in pairs and they complete each other∙ I think binary opposites can be seen clearly in some of characters ’ traits ‚ acts and behaviors ∙ For…