Shakespeare Creative Writings Samples For Students

- Characterization: Characterization is defined as a literary device that the writer uses to highlight and explain step by step a character’s details in a story.
- Flat character: A flat character in a work of fiction is a character with little development. The character does not change or undergo significant change as the story progresses.
- Round Character: A round character is a term coined by E. M. Foster. It is opposite to a flat character, and is defined as a complex character that changes and is developed by the writer during the course of the story.
- Stock Character: A stock ...

Ending of Movie Hamlet

The end of the movie presents defining moments where the truth is preceded by tragedy. Laertes strikes up a heated confrontation with Hamlet. This confrontation results into a fight between Laertes and Hamlet. Hamlet wins the fight by striking a fatal blow with his sword leaving Laertes bleeding to death. As Laertes slowly succumbs to the wound, he confides loudly that the idea that Hamlet caused Ophelia to commit suicide came from King Claudius. In abject awe, Hamlet interjects claiming that the reason Laertes father and mother Gertrude died was King Claudius. Hamlet also claims innocence concerning the allegations by Laertes that ...

The choice of play is Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the case of the play, Hamlet would be set in Las Vegas and the set would be on the strip. On the set, it will be a busy night in Las Vegas. The main character, Hamlet, played by Will Smith will be seated at the bar with a gin and tonic. He would appear deep in thought. Old hamlet would be played by Bill Cosby who is the barman tending the bar at the time. He is talking to Will about his death. Will Smith is dressed in a dark leather jacket.
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The enactment given to Hamlet by Great Performances originally broadcast on April 28, 2010 is modern staging. Never the less it is still a tale of “Murder! Murder most foul” and it loses nothing for having Dr. Who and Captain Picard as the male leads. Quite to the contrary, they are such great actors they allow the view to suspend their natural disbelief of the mad prince’s insane world.
Hamlet is “The Mad Prince of Denmark.” Although it is hard to decide if Hamlet is truly mad, or just acting insane following this theme helps keep track of ...

Scene: Act 5, Scene 6-8

Setting:
CAST:
a. Malcolm - Badr
b. Macduff - Irfan
c. Siward - Tarek

SUMMARY:

We have chosen to interpret the Act 5, Scenes 6 to 8 of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth. These scenes portray how stand out to lead his soldiers towards the castle. Shakespeare provided a remarkable way of creating Malcolm’s character especially when he announced that Young Siward and Siward are the ones who will lead the first battle. Scene 7 on the other hand, portrays how Macbeth waited on the battlefield in order to defend his castle. Macbeth was eager to defend his ...

English

It is no secret that William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights of the world. Virtually every his line of is riddled with melody and meaning. However, there are lines that are particularly touching and memorable.
These are lines from the play "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Act III scene II. It is a replica of Puck, who, referring to Oberon, said:

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there (Shakespeare 38).
Perhaps, this is not a place in the play, which is ...

Personal Reflection – Ophelia

And deliver’d onto us the lustful passions without a quiet sleep,
With unfeigned heart, I ought have taken heed of father’s words
“Or lose your heart, or chaste treasure open,
Thy madness strives for conquest in my breast,
For greatest are the torments our own hell provides.
When thou took me by the wrist, in thy eye one thing,
Dissuaded me from my vow, the black son of hell,
With no apparent direction. Oh, why did I not know?
Thou art fairer than darkness and more cunning,
My damned ...