1. Â Discuss the meaning of a particular thing-as-symbol in one of our plays and compare it to a pertinent thing-as-symbol in another of our plays.Â
Of course, as we should expect, things-as-symbols abound in modern drama, for examples, a boat, a tree, a starfish, a door, a mirrorless room, a rooming house, a dog, a boy’s head sewn back together, a potted flower, a baseball bat, a golden pen, and so on and on.
**Plays We’ve Read:**
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- Hamlet by ShakespeareÂ
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettÂ
- Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
- Mud by Maria Irene Fornes
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Fences by August Wilson
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller