In one of Tennessee Williams’s most well-known dramas,The Glass Menagerie,he portrays us with a sad family.From the existentialist point of view,this paper interprets the survival dilemma and free choice faced by the...
The objective of this article is to analyze how soap opera actions are constructed that recombine around the figures of soap opera villains,especially the antagonist Odete Roitman,from the soap opera Vale Tudo(1988),s...
The renowned dramatist George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion,which combines many factors of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and delivers his ideas on woman’s social status in his society,exemplifies the application of inter...
Environment description can be used as a hint to foreshadow the plot development of a literary work.This article aims to analyze the inevitability of the boy’s tragedy based on the description on natural and social e...
Women in Love is the best novel of D.H.Lawrence.One of the reasons for its greatness is the author’s ingenious arrangement of the narrative point of view.In the novel,he adopted the point of view from the omniscient ...
Based on the chronotopic level of narrative space introduced by Gabriel Zoran,this paper examines the three main characters in William Faulkner’s Dry September in the hope of getting closer to the real nature of them...
"Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's only published short story which explores how the relationship between the two main characters is shaped by their racial difference. Morrison does not reveal which character is white ...
The etymology of the word "theatre" lies in the Greek word "theatron", meaning "a seeing place". Men, throughout history, have used drama to entertain, disseminate information and express their innermost feeling...
This paper examines the use of costume in the enhancement of characterization using the film Afonja as the case study. To ascertain the effectiveness of costume in characterization of the film Afonja, the content is a...
This paper focuses on the role of metaphor in the depicting of the characters for revealing the theme of the story by exploring the artistic technique employed by the author Langston Hughes in his short story Early Au...