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It seems a bold move, given the era in which the film appeared, to inject such a seemingly naive sentiment.... The film is the product of an America still wide-eyed in the belief that anyone could rise to be president, a still-young nation unsullied by the McCarthy era, Vietnam, Watergate and the atomizing skepticism that epitomized late-20th century politics.... Lincoln and Nixon are manifestations of a peculiarly American cultural phenomenon, namely, the urge to moralize in film about the drama of power and ambition....
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During the era of 1980s, in America the rich were getting richer and the... The play represents the early era of 1980s in which America gained paced in consumerism, materialism and competitiveness.... This play has received Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1949 and Tony Award for Best Play.... This is a true modern drama in which the hero sees a tragic end coped with emotions and distress.... This play is seen as modern tragedy drama by the audiences today....
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This play according to me is a quintessential american drama.... Many playwrights in recent times have debated on whether this play is a perfect example of american drama and to my understanding, I side this approach.... Bigsby acknowledges it in the following words "In an era when many scholars question precisely what constitutes American essentialism; most theatergoers still regard Death of a Salesman as the quintessential American play.... In the course of the essay, the writer shows the bending of time in that era....
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he notion of the perfect "American Dream" is a prominent theme with in the empty life of both the protagonists portraying life in the fifties era.... ccording to Aristotle tragedy within poetry and drama arouses the sense of pity and fear and my paper explores these themes within these two dramas.... he drama has retained its original dream and flair even today and has even influenced pop culture .... he drama portrays an American family where the main protagonist Willy Loman's wife is insisting that he should stop his travelling salesman activities and that he should shift to New York , the city of big dreams and promises....
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Book Report/Review
In the essay "drama Imitates Reality Through Representation Rather Than Imitation" overviews the structure, language and characteristic features of two pieces of tragedy 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles and 'Fences' by August Wilson.... In this work we hypothesize that drama imitates reality through representation rather than imitation....
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A bold work was Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra in the sense that he has intentionally provoked comparison with the Greek classical drama (Winther 1961).... However there This paper will attempt to compare and discuss O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and Sophocles' Electra in order to ascertain the extent of the influence of classic literature to modern drama.... Certainly, what would be offensive and an act of intentional and insulting denigration, would be a thoughtful analysis of Mourning Becomes Electra as rather ‘well done' for an american, but apparently not, a work to be evaluated by European standards....
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The essay analyses strategy the american National Theatre and Academy.... t was fundamentally based on these aspirations that during the 1930s and until a few subsequent decades, various countries and cultural assemblages intended establishing theatres among which the american National Theatre, better known as the american National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), apparently pursued an inevitable position....
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