The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

This paper is a critique of a production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a play written by Alfred Uhry, which was performed and produced by the Ball State University Theatre. Gilbert L. Bloom directed the production and was very successful with producing a truly entertaining, comedic play with an important message about the personal dilemmas that we as individuals with different beliefs and values must encounter in our daily lives.

A major theme in this play would be pain and injuries. This happens many times throughout the play and in each scene either

Throughout the play there are many themes leading up to and causing the chief event.

For example one of the themes used in the novel is family and relationships the theme is used for forms of relationships between different characters. for example akira and his father never had that close bond relationship between a father and a son for instance o page 18 of the novel akira tells the readers about his view of his father " my father was never a father who put you at ease. I always felt he was more like the school inspector, making sure that you were all in order. " this makes the readers sympathise akira so he can never really converse with his father since Akiras father is 'used to never being questioned or stood up to, Kathryn Lomer had picked her themes in the approved manner for her

Many themes were portrayed in Cannery Row.  These themes give the play depth and fascination.  The three most significant themes thought are Loneliness, Sympathy, and Remuneration, allowing the story to reach many areas in life.

Themes tend to be presented in a work of fiction, rather than in nonfiction and are much more obscure. For example, a drama or tragedy such as Oedipus Rex has the theme of not being able to escape fate, rather than having a brusquely stated thesis statement. The theme must be deduced by the reader/watcher after finishing and reflecting upon the play. Themes also tend to be an idea or message that is given to the reader.

There are 3 major themes in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, the first is the constant battle between fantasy and reality, second we have the relationship between sexuality and death, and lastly the dependence of men plays a major role in this book.

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

The theme of the play is that acceptance. This plays say that people will do anything to be accepted. Evan Hansen never been liked by anybody and his mother who loves him is never around. In this play, Evan Hansen seek acceptance from another family after the death of their kid. He lie to the family about the latter and when he get accepted by the family, school and internet, he lost connection about his mother who accepted for who he is even before the lie. After the truth came out, he found out that he didn’t need to look for acceptance from far when his mother was always there.

In every literary work, there are themes. A theme is a broad idea, moral or message of a book or story. One individual may construe the themes of a book or story differently than another, but that is the pure beauty of themes. One great literary work is The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller. Succinctly, the play is about the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts in 1692. Throughout the story, the townspeople indict their neighbors of being a witch and practicing witchcraft. On the surface, this historical drama has a few universal and enduring themes. Themes are universal because regardless of where in the world, the ideas still relates to everyone and is understood. Themes are enduring because the ideas are found

The first element, thought/theme/ideas, encompasses what the play means. Although they don’t directly state any themes there are two clear meanings to this play. The first theme or meaning is you have to stand up for what you believe in or what you believe is not right. For example, Juror 8 believes the kid on trial did not murder his father while all other eleven jurors did believe so. As he talked, using hard evidence, he slowly persuaded everyone until they believed the kid was innocent although one of them was racially biased and others strongly believed what they said. Another theme is you can’t make immense decisions based on opinions or prior judgements but rather on what is genuinely true whether it affects your life.

There are several themes in the novel. The main theme is the careless nature of people caused by weakness. Nearly all the characters, including George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks and Curley's wife feel lonely, isolated and weak and they try to destroy those

6. A major theme in the story is to stand your ground, and fight for what you believe in. In other words, be willing to die for what you stand for, but proudly. Another theme is showing the absolute cruelty of humans. It is showing the brutal behaviors humans can portray on one another.

Theme – the reason behind why the playwright wrote the play. “Patterns of life”, a slice of reality.

There are themes in every piece of fictional literature ever written. A theme is the central idea of a story that is fictional. A theme can be everything from good verse evil to as simple as light and darkness. In any story there may be more than one theme in it. Some stories have numerous central ideas that can be seen in the one. Most people only focus on one while there may be five that are important to understand to understand the story. The Tell-Tale Heart like some has numerous themes that are all important to understanding the story.