Summary and Reflection of Nihon Furisode Hajime by Chikamatsu Monzaemon

The play consists of four vital characters, which should not be that hard to point out based on the title of the play: Vanya, who is the play’s protagonist, Sonia, Masha, and Spike. Durang also included three supporting characters to the storyline: Cassandra and Nina, which are featured in the play quite often, and Hootie Pie, who is never physically seen by the audience. Cassandra, the maid of the house, believes in voodoo and predicts prophecies that no one believes in. The role of Cassandra brings comic relief to the play. Nina, the young neighbor, is sweet and innocent, which causes Masha to be jealous of her youth. The entire cast is head over heels for Nina and her bubbly personality. Lastly, there is Hootie Pie, Masha’s personal assistant. Although Hootie Pie is never seen on stage, the audience is made aware that she tells Masha to sell the house. Hootie Pie also gives Masha bad advice about her relationship with Spike for her own selfish reasons.

The play begins with Yen performing warrior or martial arts type movements in a setting of possibly a forest. Smoke smothers the room and the ‘warrior’ begins to display sword

character where the movie had seven or eight. The story line in the book of a

To fully characterize, Desna, as the main protagonist we must first understand what a protagonist is. A protagonist is the first actor in a play; thence the principal actor or character, perhaps one of the most prominent figures in a real situation (Cuddon 565). Moreover, being the protagonist is about pursuing the main goal of the plot of the story. Desna is the epitome of this as she starts with humble beginnings – she raises her brother, delving in

Characters in books all having a different significance to the plot of the story. Some characters are the ones that cause trouble while others cause happiness. Some may be ignorant while others may be intelligent. The personality of all the different characters is what makes the book the best it can be. In the story, “Lost Boy, Lost Girl Escaping Civil War In Sudan” there are many unique characters. To start off there is John, a young man who takes charge of all the so called “lost boys” at the refugee camps. Next, there is Martha, a teenage girl who lives with her sister and other Dinka Tribe members. There is Tabitha, Marth’s sister, who an adolescent and to young to understand the whole war concept. Through examination, of all the major

The 1996 film Matilda was very focused on the story of a gifted young girl, her teacher, and a malicious principle that stands in the way of their happiness. The film depicts these characters in a very clear interpretation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 book of the same title using the gender norms and stereotypes of the time (DeVito). This text is going to analyze the use gender in these characterizations. There are three main characters in this story. The young girl, Matilda, is very sweet and soft and exactly what is expected for an innocent five-year-old.

For many decades, books present us with different characters that impact the course of history and literature. These personas all come with different and unique perspectives that add meat to a story in unexpected ways. Usually the characters with the biggest impacts are the major characters of a story; however, as seen Antigone by Sophocles and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, that concept may not always be the case. Both stories create a unique way of developing their plots: by utilizing their minor characters. The play and the book provide their minor characters, Obierika and Teiresias, impactful roles in the way they serve as the wise, reasonable, and sane personalities that hold the voice of reason in society.

Stella Adler, famous actress and acting teacher once stated that “the theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.” Woyzeck by Georg Büchner is a play that perfectly represents Adler’s view on theatre. The plot of the play revolves around a troubled lower class man named Woyzeck, who ultimately murders his lover, Marie. But it is not merely the plot that makes this play align with Adler’s view, rather, it is the naturalistic style of the Woyzeck. Naturalistic theatre examines the human psyche and how one is influenced by nature and nurture. Through Büchner’s use of plot structure and thought, Woyzeck will be directed in a manner that makes the audience realize that human behavior is not simply a byproduct of nature versus nurture, that there is indeed a third option: self-will.

The book “Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth” by Caroline B. Cooney gives an account of fictional characters that could have existed in the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. The bookfollows the lives of Lady Mary, Ildred, Swin, Seyton, and Fleance. The idea behind the book was ingenious and had many good qualities, but there were also some cons.

The origin of Japanese theatre was influenced and developed around Shinto (or the way of the gods), a religion that worshiped nature and spirit. Japanese theatre was also influenced by the religion of Buddhism “which was more sophisticated then Shinto in both ritual and doctrine” (Wilson, 2016.) Both Shinto and Buddhism where a major impact in the influence and development of Japanese theater. The first great period in Japanese theater occurred in the fourteenth century with the development of No one of three principal forms of traditional Japanese theatre. No was basically Japanese drama combing dance, music, and lyrics with serious scholarly pursuits. What was fascinating about No was that actors where trained from childhood and become experts in singing, acting, dancing, and mime. The major roles in a No play consisted of a Shite (Main character), Waki (supporting character), Tsure (accompanying role), and Kyogen (comic character) (Wilson,

Naomi Iizuka, an up-and-coming playwright, through her plays displays a more vibrant and modern “free” style of writing. While her writing style is more animated than the everyday playwright, a number of common characteristics and themes are emulated from the many plays she’s written. Iizuka’s works persistently exemplify a non-linear plot, focus on young characters, and have a sense of mystery that leaves the reader and audience with confusion.

To what extent does stage design impact, influence, and enhance a traditional Kabuki theatre performance, more specifically, in the eighteenth century play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees) written by Takeda Izumo II, Namiki Senryû I, and Miyoshi Shôraku?

In Kabuki theatre, everything that is seen on the stage is the result of a meaningful inner dynamic which completes the performance by the coordination of the actors with all the various components of the mise-en-scène and then by the traditions of all the various elements being assembled into an organic whole (Kawatake 1990, 247).

The protagonist in this play is Julius Caesar. He is the Protagonist for many reasons. One is that the main plot if the play is to kill Caesar for being a bad ruler against Rome. The consipators were making plans to kill Caesar. There are many warnings in the story that Caesar is going to die, but he ingores all of them because the consipators tell him not to.If he wasn’t the Protagonist then there would be no need to have him in the play for most of them time. Even after his death Caesar still makes many appernices in the book and that makes the other charcters die. Protagonist is the main charcter in a story and that is what caesar is. It is clear that no one else is the Protagonist except for Casear. Caesear lives on in the

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