Essays on Plays

If you give something out of care, someone will also care for you. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is an inspiring play that gives spectators a lesson timely needed. The play is about a young, penny-less man, Bossanio and his merchant friend, Antonio….

Overtime, the role of the woman has changed significantly and has allowed for many more opportunities for them. Men have always been seen as more powerful and dominant over women however, women have developed the abilities and strengths to prove that they are capable of…

Influence is a great and undermining device against the individuals who are powerless. It can influence one’s choices among great and insidious, covering judgment and jading the inner voice. It assumes the basic job of a ghastly lowlife, an undetectable peril to the hero in…

Shylock’s character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is essentially evil; he is meant to be hated by the reader. He is portrayed as a devil-like being throughout the entire play, someone purely just evil. However, it can be argued that maybe Shylock’s…

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play that has been written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. There are some things in the play that might be considered controversial in today’s time. This written task is going to examine how differently would it be written if…

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

Shakespeare has been an amazing playwright and a poet over decades. His plays and poetry have been influenced in the literature world, especially in the English literature world. Every literaturist falls in love with his plays! It has been a core subject. He has remarkable…

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates tension between Romeo and Mercutio’s diverging perceptions of dreams. In an intricately crafted and emotional monologue, Mercutio counters Romeo’s idealistic Petrarchan belief in the power of premonition with his own skeptic view (1. 4. 53-121). Mercutio wittily coins the…

Love, the only abstract thing on earth as ambiguous as the plot of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The Romeo and Juliet, for ages, considered by almost all people as the great example of the so-called, true love. The play disports apparent acts of…

The first person I chose was Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben is Willy’s older brother. Ben has died and appears in Willy’s dreams. Willy looks at Ben as a symbol of the success that he dreams about for himself and his sons. The first quote is…