Historical Drama and the Dimensions of Tragedy: A Man For All Seasons and The CrucibleA comparison of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and Arthur Miller's The Crucible demonstrates the potentiality ofhistorical drama to produce melodrama or tragedy. Written at approximately the sam...

Brutus is a combination of positive and negative qualities. First of all, all Shakespeare's plays, have a center of drama where someone with a high sensitive moral conscience, suffers and dies because of a tragic weakness, where in this case, is when he refuses to make an oath among the conspirator...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story of two young lovers who are torn between tennage passsion and drama. In this story romeo and Juliet's parents do not get along. Romeo's parents are montagues and juliets parents are capulets. Since they are forbidden to see each other they end up snaeking ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is about the life and times of Celie. Celie is a woman who has had a hard life. At the age of 14 she is raped by the person she thinks is her father and bores two children for him. Pa, as Celie calls him, gives her children away to a local Minster where they were ...

HEDDA GABLERThe more I read and look into Hedda Gabler the more I like itand appreciate Ibsen's efforts. It is kind of a pre-modernistic soapopera. Each character exhibits a complex set of traits, some good andsome wicked. All the traits play off of one another and create depthand familiarity.The wo...