Drama

 

Antigone: Trace the theme of men’s and women’s proper roles through the play

Antigone is one of the greatest tragedies of the ancient Greek literature. It was written by Sophocles in the late 440s BC. As a dramatist and politician, he often compared old and new intellectual and moral standards, customs, and traditions that were affecting his audience. Many of his plays, including Oedipus the King, Electra, Oedipus in Colonus, and certainly Antigone, deal with questions that preoccupied the Athenian citizens of the time. >>>

The Theme of Illusion and Reality in the Works of O’Neill in Long Day’s Journey into the Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Without knowing exact details about the life of O’Neill, we can get a fair picture about it by reading his work, Long Days Journey into the Night. This drama in four acts is considered as O’Neill’s semi-autobiography, introducing the reader to his family and their struggles with various substances, with each other, and within themselves. Escaping reality and disillusionment, and living life in an imaginary world, the world of illusion is the central theme. >>>