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Dancers On Stage Making Of A Chorus Line Musical
1,198 wordsOn May 21, 1975, a spectacular new Broadway musical opened. The musical was unique because it told the stories of the dancers in the show rather than letting the audience just watch the dancers perform. A Chorus Line, a musical by Michael Bennett, was very popular when it made its day view and continues to be shown today to marvel its audience. Michael Bennetts inspiration for the idea to put together A Chorus Line came mostly out of frustration of the society he lived in the 1970 s. In Bennetts...
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Influence Of Ancient Greek Times
1,271 wordsAll through history the Greeks have influenced our lives in more ways than most people could imagine. To this day we use many ideas and ways of life that the Greeks used thousands of years ago. "Everywhere Greek traders went, they took Greek ideas with them. People throughout the ancient world were influenced by Greek thought and culture. "Their greatness was largely the result of achievements of their artists, scientists, and philosophers. " The Greeks developed the study of many sciences, incl...
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Tells Oedipus King Laius
969 wordsThe play opens in front of the palace of Oedipus at Thebes. Oedipus asks a priest and his supplicants what they are wanting. The priest thanks him for saving them from the Sphinx, but tells him that the city needs saving again from a plague that has descended. Oedipus admits this and says that he has sent a messenger to Apollo's shrine to find out what he must do to save the city. The messenger arrives just then. The messenger says that Apollo told him that the man who murdered former King Laius...
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5 Th Century Bc Play Medea
1,174 wordsIn the play Medea, by Euripides, many techniques are incorporated to augment the compelling persona of the protagonist, Medea. She has an overpowering presence, which is fashioned through the use of imagery, offstage action and language. Dramatic suspense, employment of the chorus and Deus Ex Machina also serve to enhance the intense persona assumed by Medea. Medea is frequently associated with images of violence and rage. Shes wild. Hates in her blood. /She feeds her rageStormclouds of anger. T...
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Father In Law Golden Fleece
1,199 wordsGreek audiences would have known the story of the ill-fated marriage between Jason, hero of the Golden Fleece, and Medea, barbarian witch and princess of Colchis. The modern reader, to fully understand the events of Medea, needs to be familiar with the legends and myths on which the play is based. Medea was of a people at the far edge of the Black Sea; for the Greeks of Euripides' time, this was the edge of the known world. She was a powerful sorceress, princess of Colchis, and a granddaughter o...
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House Of Atreus Important Theme
1,464 words... this situation is to risk becoming a "viper" like Clytaemestra. Although Aeschylus shows an awareness of the difficulties inherent in this situation for women, he is no revolutionary. The triumph of the trilogy is harmony and restoration of order, reconciliation of the old with the new. It was for the playwright Euripides, later on, to dwell obsessively on the status of woman and the contradictions of her social position. Orestes' prayer to Zeus introduces one of the important and recurring ...
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Libation Bearers Child Rearing
1,424 words... nt Cilissa to fetch Aegisthus, so that he might hear the news, too. Cilissa is grieving for Orestes. She raised him as if the boy were her own son; as was not uncommon in rich Greek households, Orestes' parents had less to do with his upbringing than his nurse. She raised him from infancy, and now she has lost him. She must bring the news to Aegisthus, whom she clearly hates. The Chorus asks Cilissa if Clytaemestra told Aegisthus to return home armed and with bodyguards. Cilissa says yes; th...
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House Of Atreus Cycle Of Violence
1,478 words... s. The sacrifice of animals was an ancient and conventional form of devotion in Greek religion. The sacrifice also brings humans and gods into a relationship that can be understood in human terms: the gods enjoy and require devotion. They like to receive gifts, and a man who is devout will give more gifts; in return, the give aid to the gift-givers. It is often said of Aeschylus that he was like a Greek Milton: he sought to explain or justify divine actions in human terms. In the trilogy, th...
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Emotional Shock Common Sense
1,889 words... to them (think Hamlet). Medea, however, is a play that conspicuously lacks any such self-conscious recognition of error by its characters; no one develops a mature perspective on his or her own actions. As the nurse reveals to us, Jason abandons Medea on a whim. Although this abandonment precipitates disastrous results to himself and all those surrounding him, Jason never acknowledges his responsibility for the suffering he has created. Like the nurse here, he simply wishes things had never ...
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Fall Of Troy City Of Troy
1,164 wordsCharacters- The Watchman Clytaemnestra The Herald Agamemnon Cassandra Aegisthus The Chorus 1). The Watchman: o The watchman sets the time and place for the play (Agamemnon's palace in Argos, the house of Atreus); he describes the many miserable nights he has spent on the rooftop of the palace watching for the signal fires that will herald the fall of Troy. o The watchman is one Aeschylus's small characters, but like the herald he serves an important role as he not only sets the scene but also pe...
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Chorus Still Cannot Understand O The Chorus Clytaemnestra
1,149 words... n. o Cassandra elaborates her speech emphasizing the horrific actions of Clytaemnestra "the bedmate, the death mate, murder's strong right arm!" but the chorus cannot understand her because of the curse of Cassandra. o Her speech is broken and disjointed emphasising her emotions she foresees her own death next. The chorus still cannot understand her so she elaborates by giving further details of the Thiestes incident and then explains the origins of her gift: e. g. Lover of Apollo, she decei...
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Athenian Society B C
2,013 wordsWomen in Literature In all times women played a great role in the lives of their societies and cultures. As the world developed and progressed, women were given more and more rights, and consequently had greater impact on the course of events around them. The greatest writers of the present and the past gave their close attention to the characters of the women in their works. Considering the examples of Medea of Euripides and Ophelia of Shakespeare, I will examine the role of the woman in the li...
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Women Liberation Play Medea
1,457 wordsFeminism in Medea Medea is the tragic tale of a woman scorned. It was written in 431 B. C. by the Greek playwright, Euripides. Euripides was the first Greek poet to suffer the fate of so many of the great modern writers: rejected by most of his contemporaries (he rarely won first prize and was the favorite target for the scurrilous humor of the comic poets), he was universally admired and revered by the Greeks of the centuries that followed his death (Arrowsmith, 52). Euripides showed his intere...
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Chorus Creon Play Creon's
461 wordsThe Chorus of Antigone The chorus was not only a major part of Antigone, but also the most insightful portion of this plays cast. The members of the chorus tell Creon and the audience very important truths about themselves. Throughout the play the chorus comments on Creon's actions, and gives us all unbiased views on our hypocritical species. Without a chorus Creon's epiphany may never have occurred and we wouldnt have, as easily, seen our personal flaws. The chorus is included in a very effecti...
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Creon Antigone
842 wordsChanging Views of The Chorus The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on their actions during a particular part of the story-line. Early in the play it is evident that they are extremely pro-Creon, but a short time later they seem to sway into the direction of Antigone and support her actions. This incongruence about the them, however, was an extremely interesting feature of this Sophocles dram...
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Hip Hop Music Pop Art
2,076 wordsPop Art and Sampling In Pop art, reproduction and repetition are the main aspects that distinguish it from other art movements. Andy Warhols Marilyn is a perfect example of reproduction of image already familiar to the audience, and is repeated once, four times, or twenty times. Pop art takes from commercial art and makes it the elite art as well. That is why Pop art is so special, because it can be distinguished by the mainstream, not just the elite art world. Reproductions provide references t...
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Actors Wore Comic Actors Chorus
479 wordsGreek tragedy and comedy originated with the chorus, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra, which means a place for dancing (orthosis). A typical tragic Greek chorus was a group of some twelve to fifteen masked men just about to enter military service after some years of training (Athenians were taught to sing and dance from a very early age. ) An old comedic chorus consisted of up to twenty four men. The effort of dancing and singing through three tragedies and a sa...
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Characters In The Play Past Events
569 wordsAs you have learned, Greek drama evolved from the ritualistic performances of a chorus at the Dionysian festivals. After the actor Thespis stepped out of the chorus and began a dialogue with it, other characters soon followed, and the chorus role gradually diminished in size (from fifty members to fifteen) and importance. Playwrights kept the chorus as a significant element in their dramas, but its functions were necessarily more limited. Robinson Jeffers, who translated Medea, has also retained...
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Medea And The Chorus Takes Place Tragic
535 wordsMedea and the Chorus The exchange that takes place between Medea and the Chorus serves several purposes in Euripides tragedy, The Medea. It allows us to sympathize with Medea in spite of her tragic flaws. It also foreshadows the tragic events that will come to pass. Finally, it contrasts rationality against vengeance and excess. The Chorus offers the sane view of the world to the somewhat insane characters of Medea, Jason, and Creon. As the passage begins on page 176, the leader of the Chorus re...
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Begins To Question Paradise Lost
2,155 wordsIn John Milton's works, specifically Samson Agonistes, we get an idea of how Milton shows people coping with defeat. The most evident way these people to choose to deal with their defeat is by questioning why this has to happen. Which usually leads to what is the purpose of living if bad things are going to take place. Friends or family members also usually come to the aid of the person trying to cope with the defeat to help them realize that this is not the end. After time of grieving their def...
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