David Mamet, claimed that “The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, ‘What does the protagonist want’ That’s what drama is. It comes down to that. It’s about theme, it’s not about ideas, it’s not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.” The drama, Hamlet, written by Shakespeare reflects this idea very well, except for one qualification. According to David Mamet, the drama centers around what the protagonist desires, but it goes beyond that. The drama centers around the protagonist’s
Professor Franz Potter Capstone Project - Draft June 6, 2015 The Gender Roles in Shakespeare Known as a fine interpreter of human thought and action, William Shakespeare often relied on gender roles and stereotypes to aid the audience in forming an opinion of a character or event. Since Elizabethan society made such great distinctions between the actions and feelings of men and women, it is only natural that the works from that era would also conform to those same great differences between the sexes
is a tragedy. The story tends to focus more on the male characters, Othello and Iago. However, the two main female characters, Desdemona and Emilia, played an active role but are often overlooked as just supporting characters. This is probably due to the time period that the writing occurred. This was the Elizabethan era. Elizabethan Women were subservient to men. They were dependent on their male family members. They were even used to merge alliances with other powerful families through arranged
alike searching for one admirable end: love. The epistolary novel ‘The Color Purple’ explores the intertwined issues of racism and sexism that produce barriers to love in a similar way to the Southern Gothic play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, in addition to issues of deception and betrayal in the play ‘Othello’. Arguably, the contrasting societal and social expectations of love are the very
because of the social, economic, cultural and governmental set-ups of the area. Many American Muslim women are discriminated against because they cover their heads; Pakistani women have political rights but are often exploited; Saudi Women have no public role, yet they are the most secure and protected. The negative stereotypes of Muslim women probably arise from this varying treatment of women. This comes handy for the Western media, whose favorite pastime is to latch on to a few examples of illogical