Hamlet, is composed of many finite layers that make up his irate character. Hamlet's unordinary characteristics could be explained by many things such as his father recently passing. Losing a family member (King Hamlet) is difficult for most and since everyone is different, these situations are all handled differently. Shakespeare created Hamlet's character with madness in mind to bring drama and confusion into his play. However, there is one character who remains by his side through it all, Horatio. Horatio...
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Oedipus is an ancient Greek text that questions whether or not something is moral if you have no clue of what you are doing. The text is a classic example of greek tragedy as well as a good example of what ideals were held in Greece during this time. The ancient greek culture surrounding this story is shown through the themes of family, friendship, power, and morality as well as loyalty. All of these are also reflected in the characters...
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Abstract Narration is the common element between image and text. Screen adaptation of novel and epic explores the emotions of peoples in form of moving or motion of images moreover now a dayâs more information related to novel and academic work available on internet. Whereas, literature based upon a lengthy and complex text which evoke the critical thinking and other abilities of peoples. So, this paper concludes that how literature enhance our knowledge and critical abilities of a person. So,...
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Oedipus rex is a tragic play developed by Sophocles, which was first premiered in 429 BC. The play tells the story of Oedipus, who was a king in Thebes, who was presumed to unwittingly murder his father and unknowingly marry his mother following a prophecy to make to Laius, who was the previous king of Thebes. Laius to all precautions to avert the prediction, but a twist of events happened, and the prophecy comes to pass (Sophocles). After the birth...
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âRomeo and Julietâ is a play written by William Shakespeare during the 16th century. The concept of conflict is expressed in several aspects of the play âRomeo and Julietâ, often by physical violence, mirrored in the Renaissance period, where international instability existed and many European nations were at war. Conflict is the core focus of the whole play in this case and Shakespeare portrays it in several different forms. Conflict, for example, is seen not only in action but also...
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In Shakespeareâs Othello, it follows a Moorish generalâs internal struggle with deciphering between right and wrong. Heâs in love with a beautiful Venitain woman, Desdemona, daughter of the Senator. But all odds are stacked against him as his followers try to drive them apart. Eventually, Othello succumbs to all the rage and kills his wife because of an assumed affair between Desdemona and his partner Cassio. Then he kills himself because he realizes her innocence. In Shakespeareâs Othello, Shakespear does...
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Othello is considered one of the most tremendous tragedies out of Shakespeare's excellent, well-known work. Shakespeare's playwright was initially believed to have performed around 1604 for the relatively the first time. It is a story based on Othello, an African general within the Vietnam army, who is tricked by an envious and spiteful man into suspecting that his wife had committed adultery with his soldier. A few common known themes of this play includes prejudice against races, manipulation, and a...
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Introduction Tragedy began in ancient Greece, of course, and the first great tragedies were staged as part of a huge festival known as the City Dionysia. Thousands of Greek men, that is for no women were allowed would gather in the vast amphitheatre to watch a trilogy of tragic plays, such as Aeschylusâ Oresteia. In terms of genre, tragedy requires a tragic hero and usually it is a man, one who is usually tempted to perform a deed though not...
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The complex nature of human nature drives individuals to choose between right or wrong, often causing conflicts between personal desires and moral decisions. William Shakespeare explores this concept through his tragedy Hamlet, in order to explore the timelessly relevant themes, ideas and values in this play. In doing so, he delivers the audience a message about tragic procrastination, morality, mortality, murderous ambitions and how this can lead to conflict, change and tragedy. Although written with Elizabethan context, the sophisticated use...
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The play, As You Like It, by William Shakespeare is all about dropping out of the everyday madness of modern capitalism. Shakespeare wrote many plays in his lifetime, and As You Like It is one of his most famous comedies that represents love at first sight, disguise, and manipulative love in an amusing manner. Love as a state of being is universal throughout As You Like It. In Shakespeareâs comedy As You Like It, Duke Senior is overthrown by his...
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Portraying similar concepts, William Shakespeare, the playwright of Macbeth and Mark Brozel, the director of the film Macbeth Retold, explore the power held in hierarchies. The play Macbeth set during medieval Scotland, and the monarchy and thanes reflect Elizabethan beliefs, relevant to Shakespeareâs context. Conveying power in the modern version, Macbeth Retold modifies the plot to make it more accessible to a contemporary audience and uses a chef and his maitreâd wife show power to the viewers through a Michelin...
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Arthur millerâs, Death of a Salesman showcases a Brooklyn salesman, Willy, attempt to attain the American dream. He had some tokens of success in his life, but never anything that would make you think he was living life to his fullest potential. Willy was so caught up in being someone he wasnât, it would eventually lead him to dig his own grave. Willyâs misunderstanding of the American Dream led him to only look for traditional success, live with regret and...
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In the play Twelfth Night, or What you will, written by William Shakespeare in (1601), the main theme of Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night play is mainly about love. Shakespeare describes three types of emotions of love in his play which are; ture love, self love and friendship. Violaâs love for Osorio is the first example Shakespeares describes as a true love although she is pretending to be a man and is virtually unknown in Illyria, she hopes to win the Dukeâs...
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Antigone and A Dollâs House are plays set back in history to a time when men were considered superior to women. Antigone is an ancient greek drama about a young woman who goes against her society's beliefs and buries her brother. A Dollâs House is a play about a woman who risks a lot to save her husband's life. The main character in Antigone is Antigone, a young woman who disobeys her uncles law in order to bury her brother....
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Female characters in gothic texts both challenge and reinforce prevailing standards of gender difference within the patriarchal society at the time that they were written. In Macbeth and Medea, both Shakespeare and Euripides portray women as a symbol of defiance, challenging the gender constructions and the male-dominant system by appropriating traits then-known to be masculine. Whether we talk about the Athenian audience or the Jacobean audience, both expected women to act elegant and stay calm and collected but the main...
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In the Play âMuch Ado About Nothingâ written by one of the best English playwrights; William Shakespeare, the role of deception is an important theme that is presented frequently through the characters. The play is based upon deceptions and multiple schemes that are used to show the thoughts of nearly every character and the characters deceive themselves by putting on a different public facade instead of showing their true feelings and personalities. The play also involves a complex order of...
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Shakespeare is known to use juxtaposition in his play and Hamlet is no exception. In Act 5 scene 1 of the play there is a quick and unusual turn of events. The beginning of this act start of with two gravediggers digging a grave for Ophelia while discussing the validity of her cause of death in a light-hearted manner. This scene takes place in the middle of a sequence of devastating and most intense moment of the play. Just a...
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Shakespeare has used deception throughout the vast majority of his work. In the well-known comedy Twelfth Night, Viola deceives everyone including her own family into thinking that she is a man named Cesario by changing how she dresses, acts and talks, all to benefit herself. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Juliet secretly marries Romeo whom she truly loves and then fakes her death so that she never has to marry the other man who she was expected to marry,...
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Comedies treat usually the joyful aspects of human life. Shakespeareâs comic works deal with loveâs lighter side and often marriages. Twelfth Night is a very unlikely comedy written by Shakespeare because many of its characters seem out of place and the comedy seems to be coming out of this very fact itself. While focusing upon serious issue like construction of gender roles, the play is outrightly a festive and romantic comedy. Twelfth Nightâs title reminds us of the Christian festival...
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Humanity revolves around fate in Sophocles play, Oedipus Rex, and constricting the freedom to choose a role within the society. One of the classical Athenian playwrights for tragedy is Sophocles, and is well known for his drama, Oedipus Rex. His plays contain characters who have noble qualities and are liable to their tragic fate. Fate is inevitable in the context of the play. Sophocles intentionally presents fate to be inevitable to ensure the submission of society. In the play, Oedipus...
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One of the classical Athenian playwrights for tragedy is Sophocles, and is well known for his drama, Oedipus Rex. His plays contain characters who have noble qualities and are liable to their tragic fate. Fate is inevitable in the context of the play. Sophocles intentionally presents fate to be inevitable to ensure the submission of society. In the play, Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, displays a society who fully worships the gods and defying them leads to consequences, the certainty...
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The two plays, Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson, are both impactful in the sense that they explore the idea of how underprivileged classes pursue success in spite of The American Dream leaving them behind. Willy Loman is a businessman, one who is ironically left behind by the ever-changing world of business. In spite of being past his prime and suffering from a splintered family, his idealism shines through in almost all of his...
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In Midsummer Nightâs Dream, Shakespeare portrays this idea of love as being a hardship where the character Helena represents the sad truth of a one-sided love. For example, Helena loves Demetrius but he has his eyes set on Hermia. Meanwhile, Hermia loves Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Throughout the play we see that women are ready to give up everything to chase after a man for the assurance of love. Helena is a character who falls...
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Male to female relationships is a common topic in literature. The women were known as supporting the men in their positions of higher authority and taking care of their family. Othello by Shakespeare is a great example of relationships. In the play, it shows the acts of love and hate for one another in the examples of Othello and Desdemona, Iago and Emilia, and Cassio and Bianca. The play âOthelloâ represents how women are treated in the Elizabethan Era. Women...
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Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman and August Wilson's play Fences portrays the image of both protagonists transfering over the burden of their mistakes to their sons. The pattern of being away from home can become the cause of betrayal, secrets and a loss of responsibility and resentment from others. Troy Maxon from Fences and Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman have both shown the absence in their familes lives can create bad decisions, such as having an...
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Jealousy and pride tend to take root within an individual and unravel relationships between people. The play, Othello, tells a tale of Othello, who begins to lose trust in his beloved wife Desdemona, due to his uncertainty of deserving her love and lies that his trusted friend, Iago, had told him. In Othello, Shakespeare particularly takes a more pessimistic view of human relationships. An example of these flawed human relationships is the marriage between Desdemona and Othello. In the beginning...
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Shakespeare begins his play in an open street in Venice in which a quarrel occurs between Iago, the mischievous and manipulative man and Roderigo, a rich nobleman capable of believing anything told by Iago, immediately it introduces the idea of the private becoming public when an argument occurs in an open street during the night where anyone can listen to the exchange of words. It becomes apparent to the audience that the argument is based on a man named Othello;...
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Shakespeare as well as other renowned writers during the Elizabethan time profusely explore the theme of controlling natures of men towards women in their works to highlight the strict patriarchal values of Jacobean society. Desdemonaâs subservience acts as a signifier of the control men had over women. The concept of men controlling women can be seen and encouraged through womenâs internalised societal expectations during the Elizabethan Era wherein their sole duty was to serve as a dutiful wife. Desdemona says...
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Introduction: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Othello Othello (1603) is a domestic tragedy written by the famous Tudor playwright William Shakespeare. The tale discusses themes of love, jealously, revenge and most importantly race. Othello is an African man living as an army general in Venice. He falls in love with Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian senate named Brabantio, and asks for her hand in marriage. Brabantio is horrified by this act of miscegeny and forbids the...
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A Dollâs House is a play by Henrik Ibsen that revolves around issues of marriage and family. It talks about a middle-classed woman named Nora Helmer who is married to Torvalds. She took a bank loan illegally to save the life of her husband, Torvalds. Her husband is not aware of whether she has any pending bank loans to be paid. This paper will look at a summary of the drama, setting of the play, irony, main characters, historical context...
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