Arthur O'Connell

middle and end. As time progressed, this play structure became known as Freytag’s Pyramid or the dramatic structure of a five act play, where all parts of the five act format allows for a smooth transition from the exposition to resolution. Although Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a four act play, it can be analyzed through the combination of transitions in a five act format into one act. Act one of The Crucible displayed the exposition as well as the beginning of the rising action of the story. The

William M. Tweed was head of the great dramas of the postbellum period, “Tweed Ring.” The group was composed of Tweed, Oakey Hall, Richard Connolly , and Peter Sweeny, among other people. Historians believe that between the 1860s and early 1870s the Tweed Ring defrauded the City of New York from anywhere between $50 million or $940 million in today's money and $100 million which is $1.8 billion in today’s standards. When “The Ring” collapsed short after it was found to be corrupt it sent a shockwave

Lee is responsible for training and helping many of the finest actors and actresses in this country alone. Yet lee also is  criticise for his rigid methods have ruined an entire generation of performers. Strasberg  and Harold Clurman were the co founders of the well known  Group theatre in 1931 which was hailed as “America’s first true theatrical collective”. In 1951 Lee Strasberg  became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, In New York City, which it well know to be the “ nation's most prestigious

In Death of a Salesman, Willy’s obsessive relationship with reliving the past causes spiraling problems when he recounts how his life lost all potential. This play mainly takes place in Brooklyn, New York and revolves around Willy Loman, a traveling businessman. He lives with his wife Linda, but his two sons, Biff and Happy are visiting him when these certain memories are relived. As his physical health is deteriorating, Willy takes this time and mindset to reflect on his failures. All his life Willy

In the play The Crucible there was a lot of round characters. A round character is a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is transformed by it. A round character that stuck out to me was Reverend Hale. Reverend Hale had obvious changes towards the court system as the play progressed. To begin, when Reverend Hale first went to Salem to investigate the witchcraft he viewed the court system as trying to do the right thing. For instance, Reverend Hale said,"If Rebecca nurse

difficult to decide whether fate is escapable or not. From the beginning of the book Mordred’s fate plays a key factor in characters actions. The king's advisor Merlin prophesied Mordred to kill his father, King Arthur, when he is the age of seventeen. When the prologue starts King Arthur is sacrificing all the male babies in the kingdom who were born on May Day including Mordred. This will supposedly change the fate they are both destined to according to his advisor Merlin. “But

What the mind conceives and believes it aims to achieve. A father’s misconceptions can negatively impact his children. In “Death of a salesman”, Arthur Miller demonstrates how Willy’s perception of success has created a situation of conflict between him and his sons, especially Biff. As a result, the father son relationship becomes dysfunctional. For Willy, success can be achieved through recognition and popularity. He projects his perception of success on his sons with high hopes that they will

out of the castle under the cover of darkness, alone. Every instinct told him Guinevere still lived. He had to find her. But how? In his chainmail, Arthur jogged through the Darkling Woods, taking in his surroundings, which was difficult, considering the only light washing over the landscape came from the half-moon in the sky. Still, Arthur knew these woods well and navigated the paths with relative ease. However, finding a new trace of Guinevere

Horizon Surely, Arthur Miller opens the play “Death of A Salesman” with the following stage direction, "A melody is heard, played upon a flute…It is small and fine, telling of grass and trees and the horizon." According to the words, images, and speeches in the play, the "horizon" is a kind of metaphor used by Miller suggesting that the music of the flute telling the “horizon” represents another world. In other words, a world of his past that only resides in his mind, and such world consists of

This assignment goes back to the paper I wrote on the history of wicca because in order to know about wicca you first must undersatnd the history. I first have to tell you about witchcraft so lets get started. Witchcraft was from way back when in the 15,000 B.C. when there where healers who practice magic even in the bible it talks about witches and some believe that Jesus was a witch because he could turn water into wine and heal the sick and so on but it went on In 1885 Gerald Gardner was born