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"Oleanna", 2007.
An analysis of the common interpretation of David Mamet's two-person play "Oleanna."
1,429 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses David Mamet's two-person play "Oleanna," which depicts a professor and a college student who fail to understand one another with terrible consequences. The paper argues that the conflict of the play "Oleanna" revolves around power and the way that any two persons can interpret a conversation in completely different ways. It suggests that the common interpretation of the play, as centrally concerned with sexual harassment and political correctness rather than faculty-student relationships, is misguided.
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"The end of the play reverses the roles of the student and the teacher reversed--now the student has power and the teacher is powerless. Now Carol has a student group who backs her versions of the events that took place in her professor's office. Her professor has lost his job because no one backs his version of events. This suggests that there is no truth, it only matters what sorts of social institutions back the individuals in conflict. In other words, all that matters is who society says is powerful and who is powerless. There is no singular truth as to what occurred in the professor's office, what matters is which person has a group to back him or her version of the events up. Once the professor was backed by his position in the university and the other faculty. He was within his rights to fail a student. Now, a powerful student group backs Carol's version of events and she has more power and her version of events is deemed to be correct. Also, now that Carol has more power, she feels free to speak more clearly to her professor. Rather than hesitating in her language, she now feels free to contradict her professor and express her anger at the nature of the grading system and her anger at his contempt for the hard work she has devoted to gaining a position at the university as a student."
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"Oleanna", 2002.
A review of the play "Oleanna" by David Mamet.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the play "Oleanna," by David Mamet. Specifically, it looks at the most important idea the play, namely that of sexual harassment. The body of this paper explores the plot in the light of this idea. It looks at the plays comments on human nature and investigates the power struggles within the play.
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"Many reviewers and critics would say that the most important idea dramatized by the plot of "Oleanna" is sexual harassment. "Ultimately, perhaps the question in Oleanna is not whether sexual harassment has been committed, but exactly who is persecuting whom" (Berardinelli). Even deeper, this play delves into the process of higher education, and whether it provides a real education to today's youth, and Mamet uses the force and power of the English language to get this point across to the audience. So, the most important idea is a blend of all these themes that carry throughout the play, each one builds on the next to create an impossible situation of misunderstanding and power."
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"Oleanna", 2005.
An opinionated discussion on David Mamet's play, "Oleanna".
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the case for sexual harassment in David Mamet's play, "Oleanna". It explains that it revolves around certain surface portrayals of sexual harassment, which may appear typical of sexual harassment encounters or psychological data on this social problem. The paper continues to clarify that the details of legal and psychological possibilities that define sexual harassment are opposing Mamet's view of what happens in many cases. The author contends that the dialogue is often reactionary and presents very little background to Carol's motivation to see sexual aggression on the part of John.
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"The issue of sexual harassment will be analyzed within this literary study of the play: "Oleanna" by David Mamet. In the dialogue that ensues between Carol and John in the play, one can realize some of the gender differentiations that arise when realizing the power of Carol's accusations against John for sexual harassment. The problem of judging what may seem harassment and what is not can be verified through various scholarly articles that define the reality of John and Carol's situation. In essence, Mamet's play Oleanna offers some fictional, but also very real points in regards to sexual harassment and the power struggles between the male and female sexes in today's legal and ethical culture. The play "Oleanna" by David Mamet offers a dramatic view of the ..."
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"Oleanna", 2002.
A literary review of "Oleanna" by Mamet.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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A review of David Mamet's "Olenna" and the social problems associated in it.
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Two Contemporary Plays, 2002.
Analysis of David Mamet's "Oleanna" and Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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Analysis of David Mamet's "OLEANNA" and Peter Shaffer's "EQUUS." Compares both as examples of a tragic fall, and as modern man's struggle to find meaning and purpose in present-day society. How their actions and events push leading characters of both plays over the edge; their fall from grace.
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"This paper is an examination of two strong figures in contemporary American drama, both professional men who are faced with situations that cause them to question their choices and confront their weaknesses. John, in David Mamet=s Oleanna, is a college professor whose smug superiority is shaken by his encounter with a female student. Martin Dysart, in Peter Shaffer=s Equus, is a child psychiatrist who has already begun to doubt his powers when he takes on the case of a teenaged boy accused of a horrible crime. Both provide interesting examples of a tragic fall as outlined by a master playwright, and the contrasts between these two figures hold a mirror to modern man=s struggle to find meaning and purpose in present-day society.
Oleanna (1992) begins with an exchange between a college professor, John, and one of his students, Carol. He has given her a ..."
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