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Added on: Dec 4th, 2007
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The Wild Duck: Title

Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 09:46 in henrik ibsen

“The wild Duck” as a title is most apt for this play because it gives us a definite clue to the major theme of the play – the value of illusions in the average man’s life. The wild duck is a precise and an all-important symbo...
The Wild Duck: Important Textual Quotations

Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 09:43 in henrik ibsen, important textual quotations

Werle: Some people in this world only need to get a couple of slugs in them and they go plunging right down to the depths, and they never come up again. Gina: Is Gregers still as awful as ever. Hjalmar: She’s ...
Juno and the Paycock: Jingoism

Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 08:07 in sean o'casey

Sean O’Casey was born in 1818 and died in 1964. So it makes him a contemporary of T. S. Eliot. The play has been written on the background of Irish Civil War, which has been going for centuries. There are many faction involved in ...
Death of a Salesman: Time Motif

Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 18:44 in arthur miller

Half way through the first act, the reader hears something about a brother Ben. Willy wishes that he had gone to Alaska with his brother Ben. At the same time he speaks of Ben’s having walked into a jungle and when he came out Ben was...
Death of a Salesman: Symbolism

Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 18:40 in arthur miller

Symbolism is a technique, employed by a large number of playwrights, in which an object or a metaphor is described having meaning and implications beyond its apparent meaning. Many of the symbols used in “Death of a Salesman” have...
Death of a Salesman: Social Drama

Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 18:03 in arthur miller

Arthur Miller “Death of a salesman” is not a tragedy according to the conventional concept of tragedy in which the hero and fate come into conflict and fate causes the tragedy of the hero or the central protagonist. The play cannot...