Throughout the drama, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” author, Robert Emmet Sherwood presents the themes of death, doubt, and war and peace. Sherwood conveys these themes through the use of structure, character development, and language. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama contains the historical context of Abraham Lincoln’s life and reflects various experiences he faced from his early, unsuccessful days as a postmaster...
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American literature shows the relationship between traditional and modern values in Tennessee Williams's psychological drama A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). After the brief introduction, the author focuses on two main characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski who symbolize significant historical pressure between the traditional values of the Old South, and the modern values of the New South. The central heroine...
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Modern Dramas engage audiences by bringing the problems of life to the stage. The play Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose, is a Modern Drama that covers real-life social issues, portraying themes of social class, race, justice, and innocence. The play is based on 12 jurors who are instructed to deliberate a case where an 18-year-old, Hispanic boy from...
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Elizabethan drama developed upon the medieval Miracle plays, Morality, Interlude, Masques, and Pantomime that largely dealt with biblical and mythological themes. The Tudor dynasty introduced secular themes in drama; exercising his monarchical powers, “...Henry VIII was inadvertently legitimizing great national issues as subjects for plays.” (Saquet, 1968, pp .105.). Queen Elizabeth I, on her part, built three prominent outdoor theatres:...
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In a piece of writing in a 1907 trouble of Atlantic Monthly, John Corbin quoted Edmund Stedman, who proclaimed a literary statement of independence for American drama: 'Quote boldly, then, I prophesy the sunrise of the American drama; and pretty confidently, too, for the drama has already dawned.' Decrying the exhaustion of the European-prompted melodrama, Corbin applauded dramas with the...
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At present, most of the people from all around the world have become lazy. That is why, they search for some sort of recreational components which do not require any kind of physical effort. Because of this, watching various kinds of TV series and TV dramas has become one of the most amusing mediums for people. Previously, only American and...
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Unfortunately, I did not get to attend a live performance. My fiancé and I both agree that the performance we watched would have been great live. I chose to watch a Chinese Dance-drama play called Confucius performed by the China National Opera and Dance-drama Theater. I haven't watched any dance dramas in my lifetime, so I had no idea what...
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A Doll’s House is a play by Henrik Ibsen that revolves around issues of marriage and family. It talks about a middle-classed woman named Nora Helmer who is married to Torvalds. She took a bank loan illegally to save the life of her husband, Torvalds. Her husband is not aware of whether she has any pending bank loans to be...
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As noted by Dunn, J., & Stinson, M. (2011) that “for more than 30 years drama has been promoted as a valuable teaching tool for language learning.” As a graduating teacher who is specialising in educating EALD students it is important to develop creativity and teacher artistry that is beneficial in enhancing language learning for students who need additional support....
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As a specific mode of fiction, Drama is different from the two previously introduced literary forms of expression (i.e. Prose Fiction and poetry) in that it is enacted (though there are some types of drama which are meant to be read). Dramatic arts, the rules which govern their performance on stage or even the very construction of dramatic texts, are...
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The story of birth and the early development of English Drama are complicated. It has passed various stages and transitions. There was no drama in English before the Norman Conquest. The bulk of old English writings were overshadowed by the influence of Latin Christianity. The Latin Church had always feared the powerful appeal that drama made to the eye and...
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Introduction Pre-school play and creative dramatics in today’s educational system remains the primary steps to pre-school education. This educational steps are important ways of articulating the persons feeling in a healthy manner; to improve the child's imagination, to enable child to reflect and act independent, to improve the child's group cognizance and supportive consciousness. Drama provides the child both as...
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INTRODUCTION Drama involves performance and it has been used as a tool in the line of education, it involves self-expression and way of learning. This aspect of drama involves the students socially, emotionally and physically to relate well with others and the issues that affect them in their day to day lives. The activities involved in the drama such as...
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Introduction: 'Grey's Anatomy' is a popular medical drama television series known for its compelling storylines, complex characters, and emotional depth. Beyond its entertainment value, the show incorporates various symbols that convey deeper meanings and themes. In this critical essay, we will explore the symbolism embedded in 'Grey's Anatomy' and analyze how these symbols enhance the narrative, character development, and overall...
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All children bless their parents in their own unique way. Hester’s only daughter Pearl continues as a true blessing in Hester’s life. Hester the wearer of the Scarlet letter is punished for committing adultery with the minister. The setting in the book takes place in the 1600s Boston in a Puritan society so the people remain extremely harsh and treat...
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Introduction Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a play first performed in 1953, remains a seminal work in the theatre of the absurd, a genre that explores the futility and existential bewilderment of human life. At its core, the play revolves around two protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon, who await the arrival of an enigmatic figure named Godot. Their interactions and the...
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This paper aims to reflect on themes of ''Waiting for Godot'' and analyzing the characters of the play. To analyze the play we have to consider about author's life and what kind of effects of his life exist in the play. Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1906. He was provided with an excellent education, graduating from Trinity...
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In the World War II, People lost their almost everything and the there is a gloomy life in thisperiod. Some play writers transferred this into literature by writing theatre, novel and poem. After all lived things, The Theatre of the Absurd showed up. The Theatre of the Absurd (French:théâtre de l'absurde[teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post– World War II designation...
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The “Theatre of the Absurd” was a dramatic philosophic movement in France during the 1950s. This metaphysical theory was thought to be influenced by World War II considering that the Nazi’s were infiltrating France. With people feeling hopeless to the inhumane treatment of other’s it is hard to think that there is a meaning to life. “Absurd” is a term...
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With no apparent meaning, people attempt to impose meaning on it through patterned behaviour and fabricated purposes to distract from the fact that their situation is hopelessly unfathomable. Samuel Beckett’s 1950s play Waiting for Godot captures this feeling and view of the world, characterising it with archetypes symbolising humanity and its behaviour when faced with this knowledge. The protagonists, Vladimir...
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Human life is ultimately purposeless, to cope with this confrontation, we employ an array of distractions, in futile attempts to dispute this harsh truth. The Theatre of the Absurd emerged after World War II and found artists struggling to find meaning amongst man’s self-induced devastation (TED-Ed, 2018). “Waiting For Godot” (1955) is a grim tableau, enshrined as a turning point...
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“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett and “The Goat” by Edward Albee are plays characterised by their genre-bending approach to storytelling. In the tradition of tragedy and comedy, both authors focalise on producing an emotional response in their audiences in a manner that recalls Barthes' “Death of the Author”. Beckett’s play seeks to expose reality to be in perpetuum, “a...
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In Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play, Waiting for Godot, written in 1949, through the individual characterisations and the portrayal of the relationship between Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett provides insight into the human condition through an emphasis on the interdependency present within relationships and its subsequent effects on individuals. During the period of time following World War II, in which society was...
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“Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.” ( Beckett ………..) There is no doubt that the absurd playwrights are looking for ways to discover the new meaning of life from the apparent inconsistency, meaninglessness and uncertainty of the world through their...
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Introduction Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is a seminal work in the Theatre of the Absurd, encapsulating a unique exploration of human existence through its minimalist plot and repetitive structure. The play presents a curious case of déjà vu—a phenomenon where individuals feel that they have experienced a situation before—by creating a cyclical narrative that mirrors the existential stasis of...
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Many question the relativity and the importance of philosophical theories and actions expressed throughout various philosophical works. Many also elude the perception of humanism. In Existentialist Philosophy (EP) by Nathan Oaklander, in the text from Albert Camus, it had stated, “Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes...
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One of the most prominent themes throughout Beckett’s works is the passage of time. This essay will explore the presentation of the passage of time in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Molloy. The characters in these works are utterly constrained by the ways in which time passes, has passed and will continue to pass; from Vladimir and Estragon who are...
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Just Mercy is an extraordinary book. Its a powerful truthful and story by Bryan Stevenson, Stevenson who is an attorney guides us through his life in Alabama and how he helps defend innocent, poor men and women on death row who were wrongly convicted. Throughout each of the cases, Stevenson shows us how messed up are system can be. In...
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When you think of a person being “immortal” you might think of a superhero, but the cells of an African American woman named Henrietta Lack are now famous. Rebecca Skloot wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to reveal the corruption of the medical research field in the 1950s, and to give Henrietta credit for the medical discoveries that the...
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Human biospecimens have been imperative in scientific and medical advances. Their continued widespread availability for research will be vital to realizing the goals of medicinal accuracy. Once tissue is removed from patients, they were used for diagnostic purposes, and later discarded. The research, very seldomly, resulted in the tissue becoming valuable to the medical community; yet, record of them were...
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