Assignment: Waiting for Lefty and On the Waterfront both deal with the challenges of leadership, but in different ways.
Make sure to use specific details/examples/quotes to support your statements. Write a unified, developed paper that explores the ideas of leadership in both dramas.
a. What are some of the emotional/psychological/financial difficulties dramatized in both dramas? In what ways do these difficulties make it harder to achieve a better/meaningful life?
b. What are some of the specific differences between Waiting for Lefty’s idea of the working class struggle and On the Waterfront’s?
c. Discuss how and why Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront evolves into being a leader in his community. Now pick a central character in Waiting for Lefty and discuss how/why your chosen character evolves in the play to become more of a leader/or have strong potential for leadership.
d. In the end, come to a judgment about which idea of leadership expressed in either Lefty or Waterfront seems to be the best one to bring about your own social beliefs. Or if you support neither one, explain why in detail and go on to discuss your own social vision.
Remember to include specific details in your writing and provide examples/quotes from the play/film to support your statements. You can use any of the writing you’ve done already in class/or as homework within your essay, but be sure you add something new to it, as well. In other words, don’t ONLY copy and paste.
Format for essays:
a. 800 words minimum (3.5 pages) in length;
b. show the word count on your title page
c. typed; use Times New Roman font, 12-pt
d. double-spaced with 1- inch margin on both sides;