"Drama" Introduction The objective of this paper is to introduce, affect, and apply the principles for evaluating an aesthetic genre. In this paper I chose to explore and examine the genre of drama. It is my intent to argue from the standpoint that applies to a drama movie. I am addre...

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT While the language and historical setting of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy is distant from the contemporary teenage experience, the universal issues are applicable and enticing. Fighting, first love, defiance of parental authority, and death are the experiences Shakespeare...

When Diana Taylor describes the social drama surrounding Princess Diana's death, she describes the "quasi-sacred" realm on which an "illusion of a cohesive, 'universal' audience" is played out (135). Like Di's death, the terrorist attacks of September 11 offered a global spectacle. September 11 was ...

The Drama of the Gifted Child (pp1-67) By Alice Miller The bonding (through skin and eye contact) between mother and baby after birth stimulates in both of them the feeling that they belong toge...

Smirnov vs. Mrs. PopovIn the drama The Brute, Anton Checkov displays how men feel that women treat men, and in the same respect how women feel that men treat women. The portrayal of characters in this drama is somewhat humorous because regardless of the outward expression of the main characters, lo...

The short fictional drama with a touch of romance, Turned written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an emotional story of divorce and the mistreatment of women from a woman's/the author's point of view.The story talks of how intolerant and mistreated women were, whether they were rich or poor or foreig...

Movies Sometimes Everyday life is just boring or confusing or frustrating. For this reason, we find the way to relax by having some entertainment such as games, music, books, movies etc. Movies are a kind of entertainment which is popular for people in many age because it is a way of escaping th...

Tennessee Williams is one of America's most respected playwrights. He was one of the select few playwrights responsible for American theatre's 'golden age', and with works like The Glass Menagerie and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, it is no surprise. Williams was born in Mississippi an...

I think the author was trying to write a drama with some comedy added into it. I think he was trying to say how love prevails over all evil. In the movie two people fall in love and are to be married. A bad character tries to prevent the wedding by setting the girl up. He makes it look like she i...

It's crazy: crazy that the girl you once played mini-golf with in middle school could one day be your wife. It's stupid: stupid that it's possible your son could be in love with your seventeen year-old babysitter who is head-over-heels for you, the dad. That, argues this movie, is love. Dan Fogelm...

Typically, writing about ordinary people with ordinary lives doesn't produce interesting fiction. To capture the attention of readers, authors may add extraordinary, futuristic, or supernatural elements to their writing. This is done to create a more entertaining and interesting story. W.D Va...

Artist Hong Leung mostly paints with oil on canvas but is open to other methods. His work tends to be very enchanting. He uses landscapes and sunsets mixed with the subtle playing of colors that give his painting drama and a sense of peace. His technique is creative, semi abstract and very expres...

Shall we Dansu, directed and written by Masayuki Suo, has a subtle artistic appeal to any viewer. The film hints at an even greater dilemma in life that relates to the audience. When we have it all, the car, the house, 2.5 children will it be enough? Mr. Sugiyama is a forty-something who goes to s...

INTRODUCTION: In psychological terms, fear can be defined as "an intense emotional state caused by specific external stimuli and associated with avoidance, self-defense and escape," and bound together with joy and anger, fear is one of the primary human emotions (Gower, 2003, 167). As op...

In the film Bicycle Thief directed by Vittorio De Sica portrayed objective realism through the use of the setting the film takes place in. Not on scene that De Sica shot was in a studio. Everything was filmed in the everyday streets of Rome. The story line of the film is very simple and without ...

Drama is an art, and the artists are actors. Just like any other art form, proper training in theater is essential to gain mastery in the skill of acting. There are many approaches to teaching acting. Gordon Phillips, a seasoned professional in the field, has developed a very interesting method. ...

Aim: Keeping I mind that these characters are wounded human beings who are members of a dysfunctional family, discuss the meaning of the title Lost in Yonkers. Show how the title applies to three characters: Grandma, Bella, Louie, Eddie, Jay, and Arty. Neil Simon must have chosen the title ...

Mike Zavison Ms. Williams ENC1102 5 February 2004 The comparison of "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway The short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Katherine Mansfield is a story about an old man...

Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember draws out many emotional responses two of which are happiness and sadness. The happiness didn't just come from various instances in the story, but came from the story as a whole. When Landon says, "It was, I remember, the most wonderful moment of ...

\"Hamlet,\" by William Shakespeare, is considered one of the greatest plays ever written. It is a dynamic story, with characters so well-developed that the audience understands what each character is going through. The events that occur throughout the play flow together, with one always situation le...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a complex and disturbing portrayal of the noble class in France. Set in the late eighteenth century just before the revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses weaves a web of cold, calculated betrayal of the most immoral kind. It is a mannered, elegant tale in which the languo...

Just before Medea kills Jason\'s wife and father-in-law, she demonstrates to the audience that she is the epitome of deception and lunacy within the influential, Fifth Episode. Medea truly displays a schizophrenic dialogue that entails a roller coaster of emotions that engage an array from a benevo...

Greg ChiampaSeptember 20th, 2001Dev. Of DramaJust before Medea kills Jason's wife and father-in-law, she demonstrates to the audience that she is the epitome of deception and lunacy within the influential, Fifth Episode. Medea truly displays a schizophrenic dialogue that entails a roller coaster of...

Marrying Absurd" and "The Night the Bed Fell": More different than similar Although comedy and satire are similar literary styles, they sharply contrast in a few fundamental areas. These fundamental differences are clear in a comparison of the comedic short story "The Night t...

Males and Females face gender stereotypes everyday of their lives. As we are brought up into this world we are taught to be unique individuals with our own ideas of how things should be, but society breaks down the uniqueness of each and every one of us and seems to blend us all as one. Emotional ro...