Social Exchange Theory: you can research Social Exchange Theory and apply its ideas/concepts to the dramatic elements/details of the play. A research question for this topic may be “How does Ives’s Sure Thing represent concepts of Social Exchange Theory?”

For this assignment, you will write a three-page
paper analyzing the play Sure Thing. here are a few approaches that you might choose.
Choose one of this questions to write your Drama
Analysis Paper.

1.
Social Exchange Theory: you can research Social Exchange Theory
and apply its ideas/concepts to the dramatic elements/details of the play. A
research question for this topic may be “How does Ives’s Sure Thing represent
concepts of Social Exchange Theory?”
2.
“Proper Romance”: you can research theories or ideas of what makes a
“proper” romance in America (especially in the 1980s when the play
was first produced) and apply the ideas/concepts to the way the play develops a
proper romance by its conclusion. To do the research, think of the 1980s
as the “Reagan era”; search that term with social and political issues
connected to romance, such as marriage rights, abortion, raising children,
taxation, etc. A research question for this topic may be “How does Ives’s Sure
Thing represent concepts or discussions surrounding ‘proper romance’
during the Reagan era?” Another way to use this topic is to research
psychological or sociological theories of “proper romance” and show how the
play represents a concept or set of concepts from one or more of them. A
research question for this may be “How does Ives’s Sure Thing represent
concepts of _____?” (Fill in the blank with the theory or theories that the
paper will use to analyze)

Satirizing the Social
Norms: you can research how satire as a genre/mode works and apply
that to analyzing the play’s dramatic elements/details. A
research question for this topic may be “How does Ives’s Sure
Thing use elements of satire to critique American social norms?”

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