Second Shepherds Play Essay

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as in many of Shakespeare's plays the main theme is love. Shakespeare presents many different aspects of love in the play. He shows how love can affect your vision of reality and make you behave in irrational ways. He presents many ways in which your behavior is affected by the different types and aspects of love. The main types of love he presents are; true love, unrequited love, sisterly love, jealous love, forced love, and parental love. Shakespeare tries to show what kinds of trouble, problems and confusion, love can get you into.

The center I chose to observe was the dramatic play center which is a kitchen. I chose this center because because it's a great way to observe children. The purpose of the dramatic play center is to help develop social, emotional and oral language skills. It gives children a chance to assign roles, self regulate when having to take turns and during all of this children are developing language skills.

5.1 Explain why it is important to have positive relationships with adults in the play environment

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of English boys in their adolescence are stranded on an island. They crash-land while being evacuated because of an atomic war, so the boys must learn to cooperate with each other in order to survive. The boys are civil at first, but the bonds of civilization unfold as the rapacity for power and immediate desires become more important than civility and rescue. The conflict between Ralph, the protagonist, and Jack, the antagonist, represents the conflict between the impulse to civilization and the impulse to savagery, respectively. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph and Jack’s struggle for power to show that greed and lust for power can corrupt the best

William Shakespeare’s “The Twelfth Night” original text and Trevor Nunn’s filmed version were both well-crafted works highlighting the director’s point of view. Shakespeare’s original work introduced the reader to a worded text that would have numerous embedded narratives which help deepen the interest in the plot moving forward. For instance, light vs. dark, good vs. evil, and perfect vs. imperfect scenarios were given specific characteristics throughout the film version-- eloquently allowing Shakespeare’s original text objectives to move forward without a wrinkle. Nunn allowed his unaligned and nonchronological sequence to somehow meet Shakespeare’s original text in the end intact with its original integrity.

Could civilization live a normal and stable life, without any rules and orders to obey? Could you picture, New York City, with no laws to follow and everyone doing as they please? Just imagine the disasters that we will experience. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, we see how each individual character reacts differently to the exposure of complete freedom from an organized society. Also, awe see how this separation from a structural society causes chaos among all these different characters.

The second part of the story is about a Catholic voter who rides into town to cast his vote in the local election. The final part of this story is told through a perspective of a stranger who witnessed the incident from a distance. The underlying theme throughout this story is male brutality and during the first part of the story, Baynton depicts the men in this story to be the villains. Her husband lacks respect and doesn’t support her. At the beginning of the story it is said that the wife has a fear of cows. Her husband knew this and insisted on making his cow charge after her to frighten his wife. This is an example of her husband not showing and respect for his wife. “The woman’s husband was angry, and called her - the noun was cur. It was he who forced her to run and meet the advancing cow, brandishing a stick, and uttering threatening words.” (Baynton, 116). Another example of males playing the villain is the passing swagman. This is clearly represented when he brutally rapes and murders her. “The figure of the swagman runs over the psychological and moral harm done by the woman’s husband and achieves physical violence”. (Merkt, 3)

There were two historical periods within the performance: Modern Era; “I Remember it Well” and “Bosom Buddies,” and after the Modern Era; “Secondary Character,” “Adelaide’s Lament,” “Bring Him Home,” “When You’re an Addams,” “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” “I Think I Got you Beat,” “Fifty Percent,” “Lily’s Eyes,” “A Musical,” and I am not sure for “Prologue/ Any Dreams Will Do”

Defining play can be very difficult. The term play can be used to illustrate a wide range of behaviors and activities, and can be perceived as both essential and insignificant to the child at the same time. Santrock (2012, p.437) suggests a definition of play as "a pleasurable activity that is engaged in for its own sake." However, this is argued by Kernan (2007, p.5) who states that none of the potential definitions are broad enough to encompass all of the meanings associated with play. Despite the lack of such universal definition, Rennie (2003, p.22) claims, that "we can recognize play across barriers of language, of culture, even of species", which conveys its importance in the life and development of children, as it is

A morality play, not unlike some of the popular plays I have seen. I think we all have seen this familiar theme many times over the years. As we head into the Christmas season, where reflective thinking becomes this very theme. I can compare this play with some of these seasonal plays. The play that comes to my mind immediately is, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Thursday, November, 12, I was blessed with the opportunity to see the play Sylvia, written by A.R. Gurney, and directed by James Eikrem. Sylvia takes place in New York City in the 1990’s. The performance was an absolute treat from beginning to end, it made the audience laugh, cry, and even angry at points. The play was performed in a traditional manner, with the use of elaborate items and backgrounds that took you back to 1990’s New York City. The standout performers, and also main characters of the play were, without a doubt Sylvia, played by Molly Bowman, and Greg, played by Sam Levi. Greg and Sylvia meet one day in the park while Greg is skipping work. The two instantly hit it off and become best friends. Throughout the play the audience experiences the trials of Greg and Sylvia as they attempt to coexist with Kate. This is hard, because Kate is extremely jealous of the close bond that Greg and

Where Shakespeare's tragedies will tell the story, chiefly, of a single principal character, this is rarely the case with his comedies. The comedies are more social and deal with groups of characters. In the case of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the principal groups are, at first, introduced severally. Though, one group may interact with another (as when Puck anoints Lysander's eyes, or Titania is in love with Bottom) they retain separate identities.

As act I of “A Doll’s House” begins, the scene is set to impress the audience “with vivid descriptions of a room “furnished with taste, but nothing too extravagant”. (Ibsen) The first to enter is Nora. Nora walks in with her arms full of bags after shopping, and her husband, Torvald calls from another room to make sure it is her he hears coming through the door. Torvald sets limits on Nora’s spending; he treats her as both a child and a doll. The way in which the characters in the play treat, and react to one another, shows the selfish intentions in which the expectations of society hold of them.

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.

Everyman and The Second Shepherd’s Play reminds the readers that doing good things are necessary. Both of these plays are mysterious plays and are connected with religious purposes but put both plays display the methods differently. No one in the world is perfect everyone sins, and these plays express that worrying about materialistic things are not important but by doing good deeds. That by not worrying about materialistic things that we are capable of doing good.