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I must say this class has been one of the most challenging classes for me. Compared to the other courses I have had in the past, those were like a walk in the park compared to this course. However, a couple of personal issues and reasons this course was challenging is because I had three…

It is frightening to think that there was a point in time where nearly half the world’s population had societal positions little more than glorified slaves. Women have traditionally been forced into the role of the submissive, expected by society to live as the pure, demure housewife. This institutionalized oppression of women, one-half of the…

Women and girls are depicted in an increasingly exploited their knowledge and talent, The portrayal of women reflect the social standards of contemporary times, therefore, the exhibits in this gallery will explore the reasons why women and girls are shown as intellectual and skillful people. The pieces of art in the Light Bulb Exhibition include…

In “On the Tragedy of Othello”, John Hughes speaks of how the story affected him personally and how he interpreted the story in his own means. He talks of how he receives feelings of nostalgia after seeing or reading one of Shakespeare’s plays, and he loves to see how others react to the plays as…

Superheroes have long been the fictional idols that men and women all around the world have looked to for inspiration. “Superhero stories present and explore many important and pressing concerns such as ethics, justice, crime, punishment and social responsibility.”(Sharp, 353). These superheroes are often thought of as cultural icons (Pearson, 142). However, there is so…

There are many factors such as: weather, attending friends, and reason for attendance, that go in to whether or not the audience member has a successful play going experience. Like a typical summer night in Florida, the dark sky was threatening to let forth an unforgiving storm. Being dropped off reduced much of the tension…

Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, features many themes; one of the most prominent being conflict among the two social classes. Wilde’s play shows the differences in behavior between the upper and lower classes. The upper class have a great amount of pride, feeling as though they are entitled to their positions in…

The Importance of Being Earnest, a play written by Oscar Wilde, allows its audience to dive into the everyday Victorian lifestyle and adds twist of comedy and humor along the way. It focuses on two main characters, Jack and Algernon, who are bachelors who take on the role of double lives to seemingly feel accepted…

The playwright, Tennessee Williams, achieves many different effects with the structure of A Streetcar Named Desire. Firstly, I will discuss how the general structure of the play (the layout and positioning of the scenes) affects the reader. I will also explore why it is structured the way it is – eleven scenes with no act…

“Blanche’s tragedy is that she is caught between two worlds – the world of the past and the world of the present – unwilling to let go of the past and unable to come to terms with the present.” Do you agree? Blache DuBois is portrayed as a character who is unable to let go…