Shakespeare College Essays Samples For Students

INTRODUCTION

The paper evaluates the various contexts within which the audience can read the play by Shakespeare and watch the film produced in this modern day, about a decade ago. Given that the two vary in the period of production, it is inevitable to have differences in the intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of the literary works. Some applications in the play could not be included in the film because of the technicalities involved in the production of films. At the same time, there may be some modifications to enable the audience receive the content of literary work in a better ...

Shakespeare’ “King Henry IV, Part One” looks at the theme of the relationship that exists between a father and his son. The two major characters in the play, Prince Hal and Hotspur, are youthful characters and future leaders in their own right. Both characters encounter father-figures who influence their future actions. Prince Hal’s relationship with his father, Henry IV and Falstaff relationship with the Earl of Worchester and the Earl of Northumberland reflect the different ways that these father-figures impact on the lives of these youthful characters. Throughout the play, Falstaff’s reveling and drinking shows that he ...

Introduction

Literature has for long time been used as a communication's path in society from one generation to the other. It is widely used as a way of expressing one’s thoughts and sentiments. Moreover, scholars use literature as a platform to criticize their opponents’ style of approaching issues and propose alternative solutions to the underlying issue. Literature could be expressed orally or in written form in the current century; literature is preserved as video and audio tapes, published articles or scholarly books.

In-depth Analysis

William Shakespeare is one of the ancient scholars who expressed their feelings, opinions and intuitions through writing. In one ...

In the play of Othello by William Shakespeare, the theme of uncertain vision clearly comes out in the story through the characters. Othello, who is the main character in the play, and his wife Desdemona bring out clearly the theme of uncertain vision in the story. On the other hand, in the play of Oedipus the king, the king is eager to get the truth about the murder of Laius. King Oedipus consults every available source in order to establish the truth about Laius’s murder. In Othello, a play by Shakespeare, Othello is a soldier; based on his introduction from ...

The novels, “The Scarlet Letter, “Othello”, and “Snow Falling on Cedars” all have a common theme. All three examine the impact the lies can have on one’s life. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester, the main character, endures imprisonment and a public shaming for her crime of adultery. She also must take her baby with her to jail. The Reverend Dimmesdale insists that she reveals the name of the father, when she refuses she is sent back to jail (Hawthorne, 1986).After three years she is let out of prison, but is forced to live on the ...

Shakespeare was not just one of the most prolific playwrights of his time, but of all time. An quick Internet search revealed that the general consensus is that he wrote in his lifetime thirty-seven different plays—comedies, tragedies and histories. Of his tragedies, few would argue that any is as tragic as Hamlet, whose protagonist is considered the iconic tragic character. The realities he faces are some of the most unimaginable hardships any human being could imagine going through. These difficulties leave their mark on Hamlet as a person, and the consequences of them become his consequences. This essay explores ...

Akira Kurosawa's film ‘Ran’ as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ has several similarities that start with themes, action as well as characters. In King Lear, the women are seen as being hard-pressed from the centre of politics, while in Ran they are caught in between domestic margins. This paper addresses the power and motivations among women. It is therefore not a direct adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.

King Lear does not explain the history of the characters so that the reader can be in a better position to understand their motives, but Ran has their historical ...

These are two plays based on tow key players with unique activities that they undertake in their lives. Hamlet is a prince who gets against his uncle Claudius for killing king Hamlet, and succeeding to authority as well marrying the uncle’s wife (Shakespeare, 1991). On the other hand, Oedipus is a representation of a prophecy king who prophecies that he will kill the father and take his mother for marriage (Barnet etal, 2006).

The two plays are similar in the sense that both of them are set on the condition of death. Hamlet aims to pursue his uncle for killing the ...

Theatre offers a platform of expression which is thought-provoking and flexible. This makes it possible for audiences to empathize with each other and with the performers regardless of pre-existing cultural differences. In the words of Soyini Madison, a performance studies scholar, “performance becomes the vehicle by which we travel to the worlds of subjects and enter dialogue with one another.” I have found several instances in movies, comedy shows, songs, dances, recitations and dramas where different directors bend the actors’ actions to very divergent wills. Theatrical acts enable individuals to travel from self to others regardless of the cultural differences ...

Protagonists are regarded as extraordinary people. They share certain characteristics and aim at a particular goal. Oedipus is the main character in Oedipus the king. His downfall comes through his pursuit of knowledge. He is seen as a classic hero through his fatal flaw. His endless determination can be referred to his tragic flaw. Hamlet is the main character in the play. All the actions in the play focus on him. Winston is the main character identified by the readers. He is innocent but surrounded by people of bad character. This paper seeks to establish the goals of three different protagonists ...

Twelfth night is a luminous piece of literary work by William Shakespeare. This comedy and romantic play is believed to be prepared around the year 1600. Love has been explicated as one of the most inspiring emotions and the same idea has been profoundly portrayed by the author in a very pragmatic manner. Shakespeare also portrays different facets of relationship and love in the play and describes how passionate love can cause agony and violence.
The Gender is also portrayed significantly by the author in the play. This play is known as some of transvestite comedies of Shakespeare. Viola, a leading ...

Introduction

King Lear is one of the most thrilling books and plays done by William Shakespeare. Ideally, it is one of the four great tragedies within Shakespeare’s works. Among these plays is the Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello. However, King Lear is assumed to be the best among them. The title-characters of this play show a very clear outlay of leadership in a dynasty drafted by William Shakespeare. Ideally, the play lays its basis of the legendary “Lair of Britain” (Shakespeare 15). The legendary is described as a mythological Roman Celtic-King.
Accordingly, Shakespeare designed the play underwriting such that it is mainly ...

William Shakespeare was popular for his works in the entertainment industry where he was mainly recognized as a good play writer, poet, and a dramatist. Today there are total number of “38 plays, 154 sonnets, poems and 2 narrative poems as the surviving works of the author (Damrosch 25).” He lived in the late sixteenth and the early seventieth century in England. Regardless of the fact that he died in the early seventieth century, his works have been appreciated across the globe and been translated into many languages. Shakespeare’s literary pieces works have also been used in schools. Shakespeare’s ...

Literature

John Dryden is known to be among the greatest playwrights and poet after William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. His mastery in poetry and drama gives him a worldwide recognition in the history of literature. He ranked second to Shakespeare in writing the greatest heroic play of the century in 1670 and 71, which was titled ‘The Conquest of Granada’ and other great works in drama and poetry. He wrote other great works such as tragicomedy, comitragedy, tragedy and comedy. His poems, however, were criticism on English writers such as William Shakespeare and Jonson (Richetti, 123). He analyzed their work to ...

Introduction

Implicit leadership theory refers to qualities considered as specific and suited for leadership, qualities that contribute to shaping the image of a person as leader (Schyns & Meindl 21). Considering, however, that there are various types of leadership, such as autocratic, bureaucratic, charismatic, democratic, participative, laissez-faire, people-oriented, servant, task-oriented, transactional, transformational or abusive (Bansal, et al. 188), the implicit theory of leadership shapes on the features of each leadership style. William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” implicitly delineates several leadership styles, visible in the characters’ development, decision-making and in their attitude in different situations. Implicit theories of leadership are entrenched in most ...

Theater is one of the most ancient forms of art. The beginning of Western civilization, ancient Greece, lived a very important part in the development of this form, with many plays reaching classical status, like Oedipus King and the Oresteia trilogy. Aristotle, one of the most important Greek philosophers, offered six elements of drama in his work Poetics: setting, characters, theme, plot, language and music. These have served as a reference to study these types of works of art from antiquity to this day. The first three will serve as a guide for the analysis and comparison of important works from two ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the analysis of Bassanio’s character in the Shakespearean play ‘The Merchant of Venice’. The ‘Merchant of Venice’ proves the magique talent of Shakespeare to depict the mystery and paradox which characterizes the mysterious complexity of the human soul. The aim of this essay is to prove the power and talent of Shakespeare to shed light in the mysterious maze of the paradoxes of the human soul through the reflections drawn upon the reading of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and the specific character of Bassanio. The essay will prove ...

In the plays of William Shakespeare, dream is an important imagery that comprises both the fears of the irrational as well as imagination’s creative powers. Dreams in Shakespeare’s play entail at once deep-seated fears and highest aspirations. Shakespeare uses the imagery of dream to show a transforming experience that takes the dreamer towards self-awareness. Both comedies “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, written between 1590 and 1596, and “The Tempest”, written between 1610 and 1611, use the theme of dream. This paper will try to analyse the epilogues of both Puck and Prospero to show the implication of dreams ...

The Romantic era is a period that spurs a lot of revolutions in a number of sectors ranging from art, literature, music and intellectual movements among many others. Most outstandingly hits were visual arts, music and literature as it was associated with liberalism and radicalism. The emergence of great role models especially William Shakespeare played a very significant role in molding inspiration in several young artists and composers. A keen look at the works of two of such composers; Frenchman Hector Berlioz's ‘Symphonie’ Fantastique and Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet Overture" gives a classic representation of the intertwined similarities shared.
First is the story ...

William Shakespeare is one of the most influential ancient writers. His books and plays have been used in the present time, in different scenarios including education and entertainment amongst several other considerations. However, it is notable that, in his famous The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare borrowed his storyline from several other plays including The Gesta Romanorum and Giovanni Fiorentino’s Il Pecorone. In these plays, several similarities are witnessed including characterization and thematic compositions as well as the storyline. In this paper, I will consider the excerpt from The Gesta Romanorum and compare the storylines, thematic compositions and ...

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Literary Response to the Reading of “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” (Sonnet 18) and “The Marriage of True Minds” (Sonnet 116)

Love has been one of many poets' preferred topics, as implied by Plato's quote. William Shakespeare appears to be no different when one studies his sonnets, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day” (Sonnet 18) and “The Marriage of True Minds” (Sonnet 116). Shakespeare's sonnets were first published as a collection in 1609. The personas of both poems, with the theme of love as their focus, idealize love and the subject ...

What Hamlet Is Asking Himself

The soliloquy begins with the question to be or not to be. For any character playing the part, it is the most vital question. It does not simply mean whether the character should commit suicide or continue to live in a certain way. The basis of the question is still open to interpretation. The self-dialogue shows the dilemma that face Hamlet when deciding whether to end his life or continue with his miserable existence. He also has the dilemma of whether or not to kill his father’s killer and commit murder, or let the situation remain as it was ...

Poetry is an apt form for expressing inner sentiments, which can sometimes seem impossible to relate to others. When a person sees beauty, it is an individual impression. But through poetry, removed and subjective notions can be explored. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and John Keats' “Ode on a Grecian Urn” both relate a concept of, love, beauty in art, and its weathering time. As will be shown, both Shakespeare and Keats convey these concepts in unique ways. Comparing and contrasting these two widely recited and studied works allows one to get to the heart of how they use the poetic form ...

William Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, 1564 in a small town Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was a great English dramatist, poet and actor. He was often called the English national poet, and a lot of people agree with me that he also was the greatest dramatist of all time. It is believed that Shakespeare attended the Stratford "grammar school", where he studied Latin, Greek and got the basics knowledge of ancient mythology, history and literature, which were reflected in his work. The first time we hear about Shakespeare as a writer was in 1592, in a Robert Greene’s pamphlet “On mad penny bought a million ...

Literature

Imagery:
Both poems employ imagery as a way of relaying their messages. In the poem ‘My papa’s waltz’, the poem is descriptive of a kind of dance performed by a father and his son. A kind of bedtime ‘run around the house’. The dance is symbolic of the relationship between the father and other members of his family. The dance, while the boy enjoys it, is not an amusing matter to his father. The father, apparently under the influence of whisky, is desperate for his son to go to sleep. The dance ensuing represents a respectful relationship where the boy, despite ...

Literature has been widely known to bring issues that concern society into life; these include day to day events and things that humans relate with. For example, literature has been used by literary giants to speak of their experiences in their interactions, to tell of people’s cultures and even to correct behavior. Literature is a great influence in the lives of people and brings into perspective the society as a whole.
Devoted Son is a story by Ms Anita Desai and is a piece of writing that demonstrates the power of literature. This story speaks about a father and son and how ...

Overview

Thesis: How artistic, revolutionary, exciting and relevant is the play Romeo and Juliet?
On October 10 2010, I was lucky to watch an interesting play entitled Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The performance was in New York City theatre where the cost of the seat was $ 110. I sat on seat number NCT56 and luckily, the person seated on my left was Johnson Lee (NCT56) my former friend in senior level classes but currently working with some local company that organizes events such as football matches and music festivals. On this particular evening, the theatre was full ...

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My Relationship with Politics
I never expected that I can be very interested in learning deeper about politics until this class. Previously, I was not paying attention to the burning issues of our society as I was disillusioned on the current social order. I believed that the world is one big cruel jungle where people survive using their own abilities. It is always the survival of the fittest. When our teacher starts talking about the current events, I was starting to yawn but there is something in his style of teaching that drew me into listening and ...

The Scotland play is a dramatization of political effects and corrosive psychological effects that sprout out in fulfilling power’s ambition. The tragedy tells the story of Macbeth, a brave Scottish soldier, which meets three witches and prophesy he will be King of Scotland. Ambition consumes him to the extent that results to his murder of King Duncan thus he grabs the throne. He ends up becoming a tyrannical ruler due to the paranoia and guilt thus committing more murders in protecting himself from suspicion and enmity. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth end up in realms of madness, death and arrogance with the ...

Macbeth is one of the most brilliant, fascinating, well thought works of Shakespeare. Equally, it is widely accepted as one of Shakespeare’s darkest works. The play is set in the Victorian age and pundits and critics have come to describe it as a tragedy. This is due to the fact that, despite the heroic acts of the lead character Macbeth, his expeditions are laced with tragedy. Shakespeare seeks to portray the utter destruction rendered when evil is allowed to have its way. He uses a brave, courageous, regal general in Macbeth. Macbeth ambition is further increased when a trio of witches ...

A young Prince is haunted by the spirit of his murdered father. The son has hardly slept or eaten since he heard the news. Stunned with grief he will not be counseled by his lover, family, friends or ministers of the military or the court. He prowls the castle nightly, a somnambulant lost in the coma of his will’s paralysis. At last the smoldering embers of revenge burst into flame and he wakes to restore justice and order to his world. His decision is swift and unequivocal: War on Denmark!
This, of course, is Prince Fortinbras whose quest ...

Among William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets is Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure Among William Shakespeare’s, most famous sonnets are Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure that Shakespeare uses effectively. In as much as readers may want to look for a complicated structure, it is more straightforward, because its language is brief, concise and unto the point. Shakespeare starts by praising his friend and ...

King Lear and the Basilikon Doran

The Basilikon Doron is an ornately significant document for the pivotal role that it plays in exemplifying the Jacobean court and its usage of the local allegory for recounting the royal power and accountability. Furthermore, this discourse is a highly useful recap of the way in which James I viewed his association with his family as well as the people of his kingdom, both of whom are bound to perceive James I as their regal father.
The Basilikon Doron is precisely a list of qualities that make an individual a good leader and an ideal king. For an individual to be ...

Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from others ...

The Elizabethan period was a phase of industrial development, scientific improvements, commercial growths and eventually of material affluence. The period was intensely categorized by an unending hunger for knowledge, insatiable yearning for power and a fervent aspiration to disrupt the chains of human restrictions. Ambition can be fatal if one would pertain it to the obsessive hunger for an extraordinary power and knowledge practices the focal point of the entire plays of Marlowe. Doctor Faustus is the piece by Christopher Marlowe which arranges with the yearning for tremendous mortal knowledge which effects the everlasting punishment of the existence of the hero. ...

Discuss Act 1 in a brief paragraph

In act 1, Hamlet’s dead father appears to the two watchmen Bernardo and Marcellus and Hamlet’s friend Horatio. Bernardo and Marcellus had on the previous night seen the ghost of the late King Hamlet and thus decide to alert Horatio believing that the ghost wants to deliver a warning message. They summon Horatio who does not believe in ghosts and witchcraft, but who would probably deliver the news to Hamlet. Horatio sees the ghost and fails in his attempt to speak to it. He thus resolves to have Hamlet meet it concluding that the ghost would not refuse ...

William Shakespeare’s famous play, Othello, is deemed as one of the best literary works in the history of literature. The play being one of the most interesting works of literature portrays the most intricate characters. The character of the protagonist of the play, Othello, stands out with its traits and expression of emotions. The playwright weaves the character with sheer genius, and it leaves an everlasting mark on the minds of the audience and the readers of the play.
The play exposes the very subtleties of emotions of Othello with the course of events that take place ...

William Shakespeare was indeed one of the greatest writers ever to live in this planet; he was renowned for being an excellent English poem writer and an actor at the same. His key strength in his work was the use of word and language style. All his plays and poem were difficult to understand even up to date. Shakespeare was also known for criticizing other writers work when in his view it did not deem fit to be produced in the first place. Even though "The Book of the Courtier" was a great book in the 15th century as viewed ...

The title has many references in its natural context. This means that it has a lot of cliché’s to it. The soliloquy therefore depends on a specific decipher. In this context, it is the opening line. Gibson’s hamlet is one of the best because he places less emphasis on the opening line. This allows people to focus more on the power and gravity of the soliloquy. People have the feeling of understanding the soliloquy in a better manner. The reader feels like an actor reading the script rather than a man having thoughts to him. It is easier to pay attention ...

Shakespeare is well-remembered for his exemplary work in the work of literature. Considered by many as the finest author during his time, he wrote books on different genres. However, it is how he managed to employ certain themes in all the genres he worked on that communicates his mastery of literature. He mostly worked on here genres of literature: History, comedy and tragedy. The two genres that this paper will work on are tragedy and comedy. The paper will focus n Merchant of Venice as the comedy and Macbeth as the tragedy. Using these two works, the paper will ...

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Summary on Hamlet and Beowulf
“Hamlet, prince of Denmark” is a tragedy by William Shakespeare which reveals a story of one young man facing cruelty, lies and unjust society. Hamlet is the main character of the play; his biggest challenge is to find out the truth about his father’s death and to bring back justice. Hamlet believes that his uncle Claudius murdered his own brother, Hamlet’s father. He is also shocked by the fact that Claudius married his brother’s widow Gertrude and blames own mother for betrayal.
The play begins with a scene before the royal castle. ...

Introduction

Thesis: Lady Macbeth is the greatest female villain and one of the most notorious female villains in Shakespeare’s works and the western literature in general. The role she plays in Macbeth is evident.
- As a powerful and influential woman
- She has the qualities of a man
- Evil was tied to masculinity, but she crosses over
- Her Impact in Macbeth
- She is responsible for Macbeth’s fall
- Overambitious as a tragic flaw
- Her role in the death of Duncan
- ‘Performing for men’
- Conclusion
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Hamlet is one of the most memorable characters created by the stalwart playwright, William Shakespeare. The playwright, however, never clearly explains whether Hamlet goes insane in the course of the play. In the beginning he says that he would pretend to be mad to carry out his retaliation without much impediment. His “antic disposition” was aimed to avenge his father’s death.
But, as the play progresses, the audience and readers are left wondering if the protagonist has become insane. He is really shaken as he comes to meet the ghost of his father. Also, during the Closet ...

Introduction

Twelfth night by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy play that incorporates romantic scenes and comic elements in it. It’s a form of comedy play that the story line is based on romance and love within family and society. Do you believe in love at the first sight? Well, Shakespeare finds a way of telling a story based on love at first sight in a comic manner. To the viewers of the play, love is the main theme. Throughout the play, the characters engage disagreement which appears as a problem making the union of marriage difficult. Characters have no other business other than loving ...

Love is an all-too-common subject of poetry, the short poetic form being an elegant and evocative way to convey the complex ways people can love and be loved by others. To that end, examining and comparing the ways in which love is presented in the works of some of history’s greatest poets allows us to see the broad spectrum available to us for poetry. William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18 and 147 both demonstrate an idealized form of personal love, in which the lover supplicates themselves before the beloved (and is figuratively made sick by this love). Comparing and ...

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King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most revered tragic plays of all time and even deemed by many critics as the most tragic. The play’s tragic end was so harshly condemned by the audiences that other writers wrote alternative “happier” endings that were even played on stage for quite some time. However, the play’s true essence lies in the original end and this was realized by critics and audiences alike and since then has been performed worldwide in its original form (Shakespeare and Halio). ...

Psychology of King Lear

Introduction
It is adamant that the psychology of King Lear is quite disturbing in many ways throughout the play. He struggles with his own thoughts of conspicuous thoughts and ravages around the kingdom with a delusion of who his daughter is and who his servant is as well as how his family is implicated in the kingdom and how he sees his family being implicated in the kingdom . Therefore, it is reasonable to say that King Lear is psychotic or, in other words, mad in his own way and since he is aging, the mental illness he suffers from ...

Tartuffe

Moreover, the following comments of Orgon’s mother about Elmire reflect the disapproval of her behaviour:
A woman who would please her husband's eyes
Alone, wants no such wealth of fineries (Moliere Act 1).
A woman should behave according to a great number of rules to be approved by society. Also, here Moliere shows strained relationship between the mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law that is of interest nowadays as well. Madame Pernelle claims that Elmire is a bad example for her step children, she constantly compares her with Orgon’s departed wife, constantly saying that she was a great mother ...

In Othello and Oedipus we see characters that are vain and incapable of coming to peace with the truth that their lives have reached because the truth is deeply tragic. Both feel compelled to punish themselves. The manner of punishment that they inflict on themselves is different. This difference is revealing of the personalities of the two characters. When we compare literary characters, many considerations must be taken into account. What the plot of the story is; where does the character figure among other characters in the plot; and what the personality traits of the characters are, are few ...

The dramatic element I want to focus on is mood during Hamlet’s soliloquy in Act III Scene I. Hamlet starts off his soliloquy questioning whether he should commit suicide and end his pain, “To be, or not to be: that is the question (III.i.58).” This question brings toward the mood of uncertainty and gloom—uncertainty because of the after death and being afraid of something “after death (III.I.80)” and the gloom in dealing with what “ills we have (III.I.83).” The diction, relentless monosyllables, and the repetition of the “to be” brings anguish to mind and draws that gloomy ...

Introduction paragraph

Thesis: Lady Macbeth is the most important character in Macbeth because she tries to act like God, she has a flaw that the audience can identify with and that she stark raving mad.

I: Lady Macbeth Tries to be God

- Hannibal quote
- Similarity to Lady Macbeth
- What being God entails
- Manipulates Macbeth – questions his manhood

II: Lady Macbeth’s Tragic Flaw

- She’s a human being
- Audience can identify with her flaw
- Makes her so memorable
- Everyone has thought about killing someone

III: Lady Macbeth Goes Stark Raving Mad

- Duncan looks like her father
- She empathizes with her victims, even though logically she shouldn’ ...

GRA #2

Othello
In this paper such important issues as the theme of civil disorder, status of a person as an outsider in adopted culture, issues of race, gender and class are viewed on the example of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello”, alongside with symbolic meaning of the setting in the tragedy.
Civil disorder is defined as a public disturbance that involves acts of pressure, violence, damages, immediate danger and injuries to people and their property. For example, signs of civil disorder in “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles are revealed in the very beginning and go through the whole tragedy. Thus, committing many ...

In the article Where am I, Dennett is described as a person who is recruited by the Pentagon to work for NASA. The Pentagon needs Dennett to retrieve a missile underground. Since the missile is highly radioactive, the Pentagon requires Dennett to leave his brain behind. Dennett is operated on and has his brain removed. His brain is placed in a vat. After waking up, Dennett cannot recognize where he is, which makes him pop the question, “Where am I?” Dennett has radio links connected to his body after the operation. Dennett thinks of this question philosophically, which is a difficult question since ...

Classic English Literature

What makes Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 and Much Ado About Nothing is that they portray women representing two qualities associated with love; appearance and character. While Shakespeare’s lady love in the sonnet is ‘dark and average,’ his play shows Hero’s love conquering ‘deceit and infidelity.’ His play Much Ado About Nothing and poem, Sonnet 130, share similar theme as the lovers struggle to achieve true love through their struggle against deception, music, and punishment. Love can be deceiving, and it can be the cause for heartbreaks resulting in failure.
After Claudio leaves Hero’s wedding angrily, ...

Shakespeare’s "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" presents the themes of love and madness to the audience. Literary critic, Alexander W. Crawford introduces the controversial “the usual interpretations of Hamlet make it a very curious and mysterious but not a great play, and the Prince a very interesting psychological phenomenon but not a great character.” (Crawford, par. 1). However, one may say that Hamlet is not free to fashion himself, however, he is the voice of Denmark. This voice speaks of the horrors of his life and the trauma of his mother’s marriage to his uncle. Similar to the other ...

The play, Othello, penned by the stalwart playwright, William Shakespeare, is one his most intricately written works of art. The play delves deep into the subtleties of human emotions and explores the psyche of the human mind. The play goes on to look into the changes of the human heart, and also the factors which influence a man to change over the course of time. The character of Othello, the protagonist of the play, goes through several such events that make him evolve as a person over the time. His psychological journey is manipulated by several events that work as catalysts ...

While Hamlet is one of the most celebrated plays of the literary stalwart, William Shakespeare, it has been adapted in films all over the world owing to it aesthetic quintessence and relevance. One such adaptation of this play is the 1990 film, Hamlet, which stars Mel Gibson. However, there are several differences between the original play and the cinematic adaptation. Delving deep into the two works of art makes the deviations crystal clear to one and all.
The director of the film, Franco Zeffirelli, opts to make certain changes in the film. This is done in an endeavor ...

Annotated bibliographies

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage to 1616: Shakespearean Stage History 1616 to 1998: An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespeare Studies 1576-1998.
The book explains the aspect of renaissance in its rebirth form. This is in the view that brought about a heave of interest in the classical learning and associated values. During his lifetime, Shakespeare was able to write plays and sonnets in this period that that managed to capture every facet of humankind experience. In his interwoven cultural background, the book explains the fact that his writings during this period consisted of cultural shifts in the Elizabethan England time.
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Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, shows the major character Hamlet moving between sanity and insanity. Hamlet continues to captivate readers across the centuries. He is mysterious and there is more to his character than the other characters know. He becomes mad when it suits his purpose, and takes on an “antic disposition" (ActI.SceneV.Line171). Similarly, he acts sane when he wants to, and is quite logical in his reasoning. Centuries ago Shakespeare wrote of the social issues that existed in his society. Today, the themes in Shakespeare’s works remain common in the society. The deception of his uncle ...

In Hamlet, the mainstream of the play takes place at Elsinore Castle, located in Denmark. This is a real place and Shakespeare describes in details this literary home of Hamlet. These details of the setting significantly transfer the motifs of spying and deception. The audience perceives the ideas of dishonesty due to Shakespeare’s successful highlights of the scenes. The graveyard scene becomes the ideal setting for Hamlet to express his existential thinking. The image of the man with the skull must be the most recognizable symbol. Another similarly familiar image and scene is Ophelia’s death. The aura of ...