Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play that deals with representation and theater itself. A theater company rehearsing another Pirandello play is interrupted by six people who claim to be incomplete characters. The characters explain to the director their story, centered around the father's buying sex from his stepdaughter. The characters continually criticize the actors' attempts to represent their story. In the last act of the play, one character commits suicide, one runs away and some remain on stage, leaving the director questioning his reality.
Nathaniel Hawthornes novel The Scarlet Letter deals with a plethora of issues not only prominent when the story was written but also prominent today Some issues being sin corruption in society guilt revenge hypocrisy and above all truth Hawthorne himself addresses the reader in saying Be true Be true Be true Show freely to the world if not your worst yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred Hawthorne This plead for truth begs for all of humanity to realize that though sin may be bad sin
Antigone Search for Justice Justice is a word we hear today all the time Left and right we hear of judges and citizens demanding justice Is justice always the right way It seems that justice is not always the correct solution to a problem but a solution that is the easiest to make The classic play Antigone is a perfect example of this Antigone is classic tragedy at its finest A simple civilized and humane right of burying a loved one is turned into a great loss Creons inapt decision to hold his