Characters in plays

Importance of the Fool in King Lear   William Shakespeare's genius came from how closely he intertwined the two seemingly mutually exclusive realms to appeal to all socio-economic groups in his audience. The character of the Fool provides the closest intercourse of the two realms between King Lear's royalty and Poor Tom's poverty, while still maintaining their separation. The Fool's role in King Lear was to counteract the King's follies in order to bring him to his senses. With his honesty

The play Tartuffe is about a man named Orgon who takes in another man who is named Tartuffe who is beggar, conman, and hypocrite. Orgon becomes immensely interested in the affairs of his new friend Tartuffe, so much that he doesn't tend to the needs of his sick wife. Mariane, Orgon’s daughter, is due to marry Tartuffe, this creates a feud within the family about whether or not Tartuffe is a good person. Tartuffe tries to win over Elmire, Orgons wife ending eventually in Orgon forbidding his daughter

Romeo and Juliet is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It tells the story of two star-crossed lovers as they try to find a place in the world together without dealing with the wrath of their families’ rivalry. There have been many reenactments done of this play. When viewing a live performance of a play versus reading the play there are many items to compare as well as contrast. The difference of the way the play is read or heard may completely change how the play is perceived through

The play “A Raisin in the Sun” was written in 1959 by Lorraine Hansberry. This play is about a struggling black family in chicago during the 1950’s who has faced many hardships but gain some relief after receiving life insurance money from the deceased character Mr. Younger. The family formulates many ideas about what should be done with the money, some ideas being more selfish than others. But, mama makes the final decision to buy a house in an all white neighborhood so the family can move out of

Shakespeare’s play, Othello, is a play that revolves around the story of a Christian Moor in Venice named Othello. Throughout the play he goes through many events in his life that will eventually lead him into making a decision that will change him and his counterparts drastically. In the play, Othello and his associates encounter a variety of different experiences and influences due to the differences in race, gender, social class and more. However, many of the distinctions, differences and separations

Gender Roles in Shakespeare William Shakespeare, supporting some of the stereotypical gender roles and characteristics, also challenges and provides new perspective on these through his plays by means of staging, cross dressing, and actions of characters. Typically Shakespeare’s comedies consist of elaborate characters and a presence of confusion in gender identity. In particular, we see this demonstrated in Twelfth Night and As You Like It. Women at this time, being treated as inferior to men, take

There are five female characters in the play Richard III. Of these five there are four central female characters; the Duchess of York, Richard's mother; Anne who later becomes Richard's wife; Queen Margaret who was the former queen and Richard's arch enemy and Queen Elizabeth, the current queen. The final female character who plays a minor role in the play is Queen Elizabeth's daughter, Elizabeth, but she is merely a pawn in Richard's plan and we never meet her. Each woman

My impression of the play Sense & Sensibility adapted by Jessica Swale was that it was almost like a ‘soap opera’. There were tons of drama throughout the play and was also was almost two and half hours long. It was based on a family the lives in England from the mid 90’s called the Dashwood’s. Throughout the play it was mostly based on the struggles that the Dashwood’s went through on a daily basis. The main struggle was them losing their father John Dashwood. They lost their castle of a house and

appropriate title than ‘Agamemnon’ for the first play of the Oresteia? In the Oresteia’s¬¬ Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra, who is the wife of Agamemnon, is left in Argos as Agamemnon goes off to Troy to try and get his brother’s wife back, Helen. Clytemnestra is left with the Chorus, the old aged citizens of Argos and most of what happens in Argos is built around her. Aeschylus presents Clytemnestra through her tragedy, her interaction with characters and her characteristics. In ‘Agamemnon’

theatrical plays of “Angels in America” and “August: Osage County” both of the playwrights create a heart wrenching, tear jerking, and amazing work. Each character is developed to have its own sets of values, beliefs, and attitudes towards life and so there are no two characters alike. With each character having its own identity, it brings a sense of excitement and unpredictability in the plays. Tracy Letts the writer for “August: Osage County” establishes a sense of reality in his play by developing