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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page paper which examines the roles of children, and
the treatment of children, in seven different dramatic plays. The plays are "Oedipus,"
"Hamlet," "Antigone," "Madame Butterfly," "Death of a Salesman," "The Glass
Menagerie," and "A Doll's House." No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAchldpl.rtf
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parents experience, and they can serve as scapegoats for failure. They can stand to represent all that the parents ignored, ignorantly so, or serve to offer hope to a new
generation. Children play an incredibly important role in the following plays: "Oedipus" by Sophocles, "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, "Antigone" by Sophocles, "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang, "Death of a Salesman"
by Arthur Miller, "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee William and "A Dolls House" by Henrik Ibsen. In the following paper we illustrate how the children in each of these plays
serves to offer the truth up to the parents. This truth, be it negative or positive, serves to put the children in the center of the conflict within the story.
Oedipus In Oedipuss story there would be no conflict without Oedipus. The conflict is in existence because he was allowed to live. His parents were given the prophecy
wherein he would kill his father and marry his mother. Rather than face this, or rather than take responsibility into their own hands, they chose to dismiss their son, and
put his fate in the hands of another. They wanted him killed, but could not take responsibility for that action on their own. As a result of their inability to
take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus puts that truth right before their eyes, though they are unaware of that truth. Because
they did not take responsibility, and did not take matters into their own hands, or kept the son and dismissed the prophecy, they fulfilled the prophecy. Now, we can state
that Oedipus would not have killed his father had he known who his father was. In fact, when he heard of the prophecy he left the family he thought to
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