Social drama can take many forms, but for the most part the purpose of social drama, form the simplest social interaction that attempts to persuade another individual to think more like you (Gilbert 215) to a social, civic or political struggle that plays out in the ever evolving hunger strike, be ...

The drama and theatre we see now is far more diverse than what we have seen in the first part of the century, this is the result of Australia becoming a much more complex society. Drama and theatre has always represented the social and cultural issues and interests of the time it was performed and ...

The sociopolitical climate of Shaw's England appears to have offered the playwright the subject of his conflict. In his 1895 essay on the problem play, Shaw states the primacy of social issues in modern drama, expressing himself in dramatic rather than directly sociopolitical terms. One cr...

Events like Diana's funeral punctuate the global consciousness. For the duration of the spectacle, billions of people worldwide focus on the same imagery and ideas even if just for a fleeting moment. Even for those who did not see Diana's funeral on television, her death evoked some universal themes...

My Wife and Kids is a family sitcom blended in with serious drama because serious and realistic issues and presented. It is based on an American-Afro family following the customs of western style families. Even though the stereotypical view of a family in sitcoms is white, average middle class peopl...

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR Abnormal Behavior, what is it? Who is to say, what is normal and what is not normal? Now, take it a step further. Who determines abnormal behavior verses normal behavior? Who differentiate between the two? Is it us, (the people, who claim to be normal), your parents, your peers,...

Does the news reflect of construct reality?The main concern of this essay is to look at the relationship between news media and reality. Whilst debating whether the mediation by the news is in the form of a 'faithful reflection' [McQuail, 1994, p.65] of reality or a 'filtered, screen', [McQuail, 19...

1. The MisanthropeA central theme that runs throughput this play and which forms the basis of this discussion is the issue of the compromise between the critique of the fallacies and pretensions of society and the need to ameliorate these criticisms with false praise and lies in order to make societ...