Prose Essay Examples Page 11

My improvisation is called ‘Bradley’ and I am comparing this to a play we have read in drama called ‘Billy Liar’. Billy Liar is written in around 1960 by Keith Waterhouse and is set in an industrial town. A difference between the two plays is that ‘Bradley is set in the present day and ‘Billy…

In the first scene in the play’s exposition, when Billy enters and has a row with his father, I will be helping my actors illustrate the generation gap by doing numerous short exercises. I will put them into groups of 3, and give them a scenario. First I will create a pub scene, and all…

In ‘Hide and Seek’, the boy is terribly competitive, he almost treats the game like a military campaign; taking the game very seriously and is trying his best to stay hidden from the other children. This character is probably more suited to the situation that the boy in ‘Leaving School’ finds himself as he evidently…

The trouble with economics is that, thinking we already know what it is, we often choose not to go there. Professional economists themselves are largely responsible; the highly abstract language with which their domain has been ring-fenced designates a protected area whose assumptions must be tacitly accepted before one is given entry. It is therefore…

My eyes widened.  I breathed sighs of relief and agreement.  My heart raced.  I wept. In short, this book rocked my world.  Upon first impression, Demian seems to be a chronicle of Emil Sinclair’s rocky, sometimes painful, transitions from childhood, through puberty, into adulthood.  I would venture to say that Sinclair actually, upon deeper reflection,…