The Chorus descends from the top of the staircase and introduces the players to the audience. ... The Chorus then recounts the events leading up to Antigone's tragedy. ... The Chorus appears and announces that the tragedy is on. ... Death, treason, and sorrow are "on the march," moving in the wake of storm, tears, and stillness. 4.1 Summary The Chorus continues, evoking tragedy's stillness in the hush when the executioner raises his ax, the silence when two lovers stand naked before each other for the first time, the silence within when the roaring crowd acclaims a winner, leavi...

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• Grade Level: High School

Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strengt...

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• Has Bibliography
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Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad audience and has been shown in cinemas across the world. ... With the representation of magical creatures, there must be some upward limit to what people may be asked to believe. ... Impossible creatures, such as fairies, must be made acceptable by incorporating fantasy into the ideas of the time. ... Beside this choice a director must decide if his/her fairies are close to mankind or alien creatures. ... In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in e...

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• Grade Level: High School

The question of Hamlet's sanity is irrelevant, but instead his melancholy disposition is the centering aspect of the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. ... "Shakespeare represents Hamlet's melancholy as genuine rather than stereotypical."5 Shakespeare did not attempt to have Hamlet conform to any criteria of the time, and with his non-conformity Hamlet appears as a true character and not someone who has been forced to be a certain way in order to generate a fixed response from the audience. ... He must be detailed in explaining his reasons for his attitudes and with the c...

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• Grade Level: High School