J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea is evidently and unquestionably a play with a distinct regional interest whose setting is an island off the west of Ireland. This island is one of a group of an...
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Discuss How Synge’s Riders to the Sea is at once Locale and Universal
John Millington Synge chose the remote Aran Islands as the locale for his tragic play Riders to the Sea. The choice was a conscious one and it yielded a surprising dividend for an artist who was, for...
Riders to the Sea is one of the best one-act plays in which tragic vision of life has been depicted by J. M. Synge well. A proper analysis will show that as a dramatist Synge has given an accurate...
Greek tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles present spectacles of human suffering in the backdrop of the huge machinery of inscrutable fate or the ever turning and inexorable wheel of necessity. Greek...
Critically Comment on the Use of Symbols in The Tempest by Shakespeare
Through the use of symbols, an artist can express much more than would otherwise be possible. The symbols enable the artist to express the great by the use of the small, the infinite by the finite,...
Discuss the Character of Prospero and Briefly his Island in The Tempest
Prospero is the central character in the play The Tempest. Indeed, he dominates the play from the beginning to the end. The entire action of the play, barring some of the deeds of Antonio, Sebastian,...