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Seagull as an image: Every character in the play identifies with the seagull in some way or the other. Seagull for Treplev signifies Nina’s cold and harsh treatment towards him; he tries to explain how and why he symbolizes himself with the Seagull while she tries to explain she doesn’t understand it. It foreshadows the end of the play by showing how Treplev will actually commit suicide. For Nina, it shows how she will always be in the future, when Trigorin discovers the gull he says: “A young girl… loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.” It represents how she will be forgotten about in the future by him and how her life is ruined by the man she loved. Towards the end of the play she is completely forgotten about like the gull Trigorin asked to stuff. Lake as an image: The lake at the beginning of the play is ob...

One of Arthur Miller’s most profound works, Al l My Sons, has its roots buried within the tragedy stricken war times back in 1947, a few years after the second world war ended. The Keller's are a family who live a life of tension and unrealistic aspirations after losing a son at war. As the Keller's try to live a normal life they are left struggling when they face dealing with the consequences of their actions, these lead to the central tragedies of the play. In the story, Joe Miller decided to send out faulty air plane parts for the good of his business and family causing the death of  twenty-one pilots  during World War II. The play revolves around the events that take place in the absence of Larry, while he does his time in the jail for a crime committed by his business partner and dear friend, Joe Keller, but a situation moulded so intricately turned the tables and Larry ended up bearing the brunt of the repercussions. As a play, All my sons is driven b...

      In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality- Ansel Adams.                                                     SHOT BY PRANALI RANAUT (TYBA)