Play Essay Examples

In Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play, A Raisin in the Sun., four family members with contrasting dreams each attempt to convince the rest of the family that theirs is the most appropriate use of a $10,000 insurance check, until they all are faced with the threat of discrimination. At the onset of the play, Walter’s dream…

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…

The Middle Ages, also known as the medieval era, is a time frame, in Europe, of about 1,000 years that dates from the early fifth century through the fifteenth century. The medieval era is responsible for producing some of the most brilliant works of literature by some of the most brilliant authors. These literary works…

You can’t take anything with you, so leave behind only good deeds. As far as morality messages go, this play teaches the most basic of them all. Nothing, not knowledge or money or power or influence will aid you when death comes to judge you. Only what you have done to others, your deeds, whether…

Retribution is a punishment that is put onto another when they have done a criminal act. In the play Medea, we see her wanting to seek revenge on Jason, who is her ex-husband. The reason for the revenge is that he left her for a different woman; this woman is the daughter of the king….

When one imagines the Medieval time period, images of illiterate, mutton-eating Vikings who live in filth appear. Certainly, thoughts of class and theatre never enter the brain. The words medieval” and “theatre” shouldn’t belong in the same sentence, unless it’s a dinner and a show kind of talk. However, that was not the case. There…

Everyman and Beowulf have many differences and few similarities. The epic poem “Beowulf” shows bravery and honor when confronted by death. He is ready for he knows that death will happen eventually. Whereas “Everyman”, Everyman is very hesitant to accept death. Everyman feels like he needs more time and does not want to confront death….