Character Studies

character analysis La Clemenza di Tito Mozart opera Sesto

Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito displays the damage that the heavy-handed, fearful binarization of gender can cause, and models a love based on true understanding.

character analysis Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro Mozart opera The Marriage of Figaro

Beaumarchais’s original text included detailed character notes: “Chérubin” was to be played as “a charming young scamp, diffident only in the presence of the Countess.”

character analysis film Jung Persona psychology

Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) ... Third, that Alma and Elisabet are the same woman: that woman experiencing a split personality, an existential crisis, a loss of purpose, or all three.

character analysis Citizen Kane film Hamlet Shakespeare

Where Hamlet takes on a questionable mission to fill up his isolation, Kane strives to control others since he cannot control himself.