Sometimes the road of life takes an unexpected turn and you have no choice but to follow it to end up in the place you are supposed to be. Your fate is like a car crash an accident you never asked for but happens because it's your destiny. Sophocles highlights the irony of a man who wants to track down...
432
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is often criticized for its seemingly misogynistic themes: namely, the idea of breaking a woman’s spirit and making her subservient to her husband. This is apparent through the “taming” of the play’s lead female character, Katherine Minola. Katherine, better known as Kate, is hard-headed, stubborn, and prone to speaking her mind. In the patriarchal...
337
Antony and Cleopatra’s love for one another is the prominent theme throughout the play, and although both characters profess to an incomparable “peerless” love, they encourage doubt in the audience by acting in a manner that appears to contradict this. This is demonstrated by Cleopatra’s bullying, manipulative manner and also with the ease with which Antony dismisses their relationship in...
230
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers can handle your paper.
Place an order
Despite the adaptation of a text to film benefiting from the opportunities and abilities bestowed to a director through the visual aspect of the medium, narrative complexity and depth of literary themes almost inevitably suffer a condensation. Ralph Fiennes’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is not immune to this trend, with temporal constraints forcing Fiennes to focus upon thematic elements...
432
The first tempo Hamlet utter, he smack concerning Claudius “A contracted more than kindred and less than gracious” (1.2.65). The passage also reveals that Laertes' lifestyle isn't as pure as he would Saturn others to trust and that Ophelia is largely informed of this. “Comedy is, the ground from which, or against which, buskin evolve. The two puns in lively...
323
French sociologist Émile Durkheim believes “Social factors are not only external to the individual but are, moreover, endowed with coercive power, by virtue of which one impose themselves upon”. However, while individuals arise from social interactions and relationships, beliefs, values, and moral obligations may appear as matters of personal will. In Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the star-crossed lovers are hindered...
284
Struggling to find the right direction?
Expert writers are here to provide the assistance, insights, and expertise needed for your essay.
William Shakespeare has been an English author who lived on 26 April 1564 until 23 April 1616 and was first declared in 1623 as a pastoral comedy of ‘As You Like It’. The play relates to Rosalind and Celia's journey through the Forest of Arden and to the interesting characters they met. ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare is...
266
A ‘battle of the sexes’ implies a conflict between a man and a woman regarding gender roles in a given environment or circumstance, or a more generalized battle for supremacy between men and women. The inequality between sexes can be found in any work of literature or film, and Shakespeare is no exception. Gender plays a huge role in social...
292
Rosalind and Viola are seen as a dominant and independent figure in Shakespeare’s plays. Because, each exemplifies the power and intelligence to confront other characters with their gender-based disguises. They use their disguises as a way to take control of the romantic aspects in their lives, and they engage into different roles with the ability to defy the constraints that...
432
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers can handle your paper.
Place an order
When an individual desire to achieve something, they’re willing to go to extreme measures to accomplish their goal”- Chanté Blake. In doing so, trials and tribulations may come aboard however, that doesn’t hinder them from executing their initial plans. Your strive to accomplish something can come from many sources, for example, an influence from others or your passion to accomplish...
274
The term ‘Gaia’ owes its origin from James Lovelock's contention that the Earth's self-regulating system itself create a sustainable life to co-exist on the planet and it is hereby, this principle of self-regulation that decides the fate of life to exist on other planets. According to James Lovelock, Gaia constitutes “a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and...
408
The year 1848 to 1850 was important regarding the arousal of science upon painting in France as well as with the budding of Pre-Raphaelite romanticism. Until 1848, one could admire art in England, but could not be surprised by it. The basic tradition of the contemporary English painters lied mainly in the models, their ladies and young girls, rather than...
232
Struggling to find the right direction?
Expert writers are here to provide the assistance, insights, and expertise needed for your essay.
Is it true that having an obsession with money could lead to making radical decisions? In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, there is constant decision making on who or whom not to marry. In particular, Petruchio, one of the main characters in the play, is specific about who he marries due to his obsession with...
327
Historical context During the time of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I was ruling England. The era lasted between the years 1558 – 1603. Christianity was important in Europe. It was divided into two groups –“Catholics and Protestants – of dramatically opposing beliefs” (“Elizabethan Era”). Queen Elizabeth was a Protestant, but was allowed to also practice Catholicism. There were deep tensions between...
289
Introduction The practice and art of using an object or a word for the representation of an abstract idea is called Symbolism. An action, person, object and place all can have symbolic meaning. If an author wants to express an emotion and feeling rather than saying it directly, he hints it in the symbolic undertones. The symbol for love can...
432
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers can handle your paper.
Place an order
William Shakespeare has written many plays, sonnets, and mostly all of them include children. Some of them mercilessly die, and some simply pay for the mistakes of their parents, but why there is not always a happy end? Why children are supposed to die? In early modern England the mortality of infant and children was very high due to many...
432
Shakespeare was definitely a man of culture who's oft credited for several things ranging from tropes present in our media, our modern language, and some of the most renown works that have stood the test of time with several adaptations and interpretations. One of the tropes that Shakespeare liked to tinker with often in his works would have to be...
282
John Proctor, from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and Macbeth, from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, are two main characters that show obvious similarities with each other. Both characters show the negative impact of witchcraft in their lives, the reputation they have within the community, and their tragic flaws. While the similarities may be true, they contrast and show evident differences. To begin...
432
Struggling to find the right direction?
Expert writers are here to provide the assistance, insights, and expertise needed for your essay.
I’m a man, Shakespeare said so Alexander Sheffield on outdated ideas of masculinity that we are taught wrong from the start. School, the so-called learning part of our lives, well why are we still being exposed to and taught wrong ideas of important concepts? In 1980, 91% of united state school were teaching Shakespeare and today they are continuing to...
124
1 Page
616 Words
Reviewed
How manipulation is portrayed and its role and impact to the plot. As Lady Macbeth and her husband plot to kill King Duncan, she tells him to “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”. Her command, though subtle, represents the recurring theme of manipulation, which can be seen throughout the play. It is explored through a...
194
Is there free will in the human life? In the short stories Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and “The Guest” by Albert Camus portrays how the exercise of free will leads to downfall. By the ideas of a higher superior, Oedipus, Macbeth, and the Arab in The Guest are able to independently decide their...
223
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers can handle your paper.
Place an order
The story of Oedipus introduces a king faced with a hamartia that ends up being his downfall. Throughout the story, Oedipus seemed destined for misfortune. Faced with an internal conflict; he is forced to find the truth of his past and fall from his grace. Oedipus’s pride plays a major role in his downfall. Although, the fault of his actions...
432
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet’s and Ophelia’s love is indirectly hinted at many times through the way they talk and address each other, the way people carry themselves when around the two, and how Shakespeare himself gives indications to their past relationship. There are eight types of love according to the Greeks. Eros, Philia, Storge, Ludus, Mania, Pragma, Philautia, and...
206
For some people, love may be something good, but for others, it can be an emotion that causes fear. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses “Daphne and Phoebus,” The Elder’s “Apollo and Daphne,” and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, you are able to find Differences across themes, like reversed roles, characters, dialogues, and images. Also, there are similarities across themes, topics, and tone....
432
Struggling to find the right direction?
Expert writers are here to provide the assistance, insights, and expertise needed for your essay.
Throughout Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, loss is a fundamental concept that is present throughout the whole play. There are a variety of losses that the characters of the play suffer from, where this essay will be used to discuss the vast variety of losses. The motif scales from the loss of sanity, to the loss of self-righteousness, to the loss of...
341
Hamlet is an English play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1599 and 1601. The play tells the story of Hamlet, and the events that transpire after he vows to avenge his father, who was killed by his uncle Claudius. Throughout the story Hamlet displays extreme amounts of rationality, from his inability to kill Claudius until he knows for...
201
INTRODUCTION In this essay I shall identify the necessary skills, resources and expertise required of the actor in the performance of Hamlet. The purpose of this essay is not to arrive at a definite consensus on what the play is about or address the various thematic, political and morality elements. I shall make use of the play to examine the...
298
Get a unique paper that meets your instructions
800+ verified writers can handle your paper.
Place an order
The play, Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare is a playful comedy which explores the construction of class, gender, sexual identity, and the tensions between the external and internal dimensions of each. Many on-screen and rendition adaptations of the play have been created, with the movie, She’s the man directed in 2002 by Andy Flickmen, being beloved by many. Although...
234
Above the river splitting through campus, I stop for a moment, resting my arms upon the bridge’s cold, iron railing. Spring reaches out from skeleton trees in buds of leaves and wildflowers, hovering over a river reflecting whatever light the moon has left to give. With eyes open to the cloudless sky, I notice the rhythmic flicker of the streetlights,...
274
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is one of the most challenging Shakespeare’s plays, as it explores issues of gender identity and sexual orientation, interrogates traditional representation of gender roles and suggests same-sex love and attraction between most of the characters, issues, which unfortunately, nowadays, almost 400 years later, are little debated or even considered taboo topics. Twelfth Night is...
432
432
