Essays Tagged: "Shakespeare"

Antigone

world's greatest playwrights, and his plays havehad many enduring influence on many other writers (Shakespeare). During hislife he wrote an immense amount of plays. Sophocles wrote 100 plays and only ...

(2 pages) 96 0 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Fahrenheit 451

around that it would not havebeen our past anymore, it would have been a made up one. In thetime of Shakespeare there were no televisions, not even close tothat technology yet. Who would we study and ...

(3 pages) 144 1 2.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Effects of the Speeches of Brutus and Anthony

The Effects of the Speeches of Brutus and Antony Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's greatest works. It's about a group of conspirators who kill their king, Julius, in ord ...

(1 pages) 64 1 3.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

What was the witches' role in Macbeth?

What was the witches' role in Mac Beth?In Shakespeare's time, many people were superstitious; they believed that that their lives were strongl ... the world was full of supernatural creatures, such as witches, ghosts, and many other such beings. Shakespeare incorporated these aspects of belief in his play Mac Beth. The witches, although accurat ...

(4 pages) 78 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

The Alternative Sexual Directions in the Merchant of Venice

twins. When Salanio comes, Salerio comes. When Salerio goes, Salanio goes.Here is a famous quote by Shakespeare, ÒThe love that dares not speak its name.Ó In the play, there are many pla ...

(1 pages) 46 0 4.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Role of Falstaff in Henry IV, Part One

Falstaff's Role in Henry IV, Part OneHenry IV, Part One, has always been one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, maybe because of Falstaff. Much of the early criticism I found concentrated on ...

(4 pages) 52 0 3.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Agony of a Sensitive Man

Agony of a Sensitive Man Shakespeare is arguably the greatest playwright that ever lived. His plays are the most studied work ... like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello are loved so much for the characters that they present. Shakespeare makes his characters very complex. His character development is as widely studied as are ... the love of Romeo, the jealously of Othello, the treachery of Brutus, and the torment of Hamlet. In Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet, Hamlet is overcome by a physiological downfall. Hamlet was a sensi ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Theme Of Blindness in King Lear

In Shakespearean terms, blinds means a whole different thing. Blindness can normally be defined as the ... erent thing. Blindness can normally be defined as the inability of the eye to see, but according to Shakespeare, blindness is not a physical quality, but a mental flaw some people possess. Shakespeare ... his play King Lear is that of blindness. King Lear, Gloucester, and Albany are three prime examples Shakespeare incorporates this theme into. Each of these character's blindness was theprimary cause o ...

(7 pages) 154 0 4.2 Aug/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Cassio, Roderigo, Barbantio and their functions

From Shakespeare's play Othello, this paper will be discussing the rolesof Cassio, Roderigo and Brabantio ... arious characteristics. The character of Brabantio could quitepossibly have been put in the play by Shakespeare so the older generationof people in the time period in which the play was written, Eliza ...

(3 pages) 55 0 4.4 Nov/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Shakespeare. How he influences me.

Shakespeare: As I Like It"I know you all and will awhile uphold / The unyok'd humour of your idlenes ... eter, motivation, or subtext. I said my piece and escaped with nary a moment to waste. The world of Shakespeare can be very blurry when seen through the eyes of a thirteen year-old Christian boy. I di ... that appeals to my taste-buds. This triviality extends into every decision I make and it is through Shakespeare that I have found solace inasmuch as he, I believe, realizes the darkest or the most pre ...

(7 pages) 60 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Deception in Shakespeare's MacBeth

'Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't.' (Shakespeare 1.5. 64-66) Throughout Shakespeare's Macbeth, things are not always as they seem. Decept ... ths of deception and eventually kills herself. Therefore, it is obvious that the main characters of Shakespeare's Macbeth are all negatively affected by the recurring theme of deception.Throughout the ... ll of the deception.From the end results of the play, we can clearly see how deception ruins lives. Shakespeare shows the audience that misleading others - and oneself, is not honorable nor the way to ...

(5 pages) 84 2 4.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

What is Iago? -- as distinct from what he pretends to be -- and what are his motives?

what I am.' What is Iago? -- as distinct from what he pretends to be -- and what are his motives?In Shakespeare's, Othello, the reader is presented the classic battle between the deceitful forces of e ...

(6 pages) 149 0 3.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Othello

Shakespeare's OthelloIn Shakespeare's 'Othello,' Iago carefully and masterfully entraps Othello into ... ago's bestial attitude to sex.The relationship between Iago and Emilia is masterfully contrasted by Shakespeare with the relationship between Othello and Desdemona, who openly express their love and p ...

(4 pages) 134 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Humor in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success because of it. He created a ... to create a success called 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The focus of this paper is to describe how Shakespeare uses humor in his play.One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plai ... , sometimes doesn't portray the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other meanings that added to the p ...

(2 pages) 113 0 3.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream

King Lear

Throughout Shakespeare's King Lear, there is a sense of renewal, or as L.C. Knights puts it, "affirmation in sp ... l order of society. She is left abandoned by both her father and her presumed suitor, Burgundy. Yet Shakespeare rewards Cordelia's noble character with another suitor, the King of France. Despite all ... bride to be and applauds her virtues that he states, make her rich. In introducing him to the play, Shakespeare provides the reader with another positive creature amid the powerful and morally deprive ...

(9 pages) 91 0 5.0 Nov/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Hamlet. Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

t if you live a dangerous lifestyle, then you willeventually falter and suffer the consequences. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are manycases where characters are killed because they lived a murderous ...

(3 pages) 62 0 2.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Julius Caesar

Having a good background and knowledge of the history of Rome is very helpful to understand Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The setting of this play took place hundreds of years ago, so if ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The character of Macbeth

vil, we can see his human side throughout the play, which makes it a tragedy. It is the shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, and has a very fast pace. Once Macbeth's ambition has 'set the ball rolling ... cbeth' are ambition, effects of evil, and violence, shown mainly by the language of the play, as in Shakespeare's time plays were performed in daylight with very few props. Ambition is something that ...

(9 pages) 99 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Hamlet

Hamlet one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, where the young prince of Denmark must uncover the truth about his fat ...

(7 pages) 98 0 3.2 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Shakespeare's Sonnet 19

Shakespeare's Sonnet 19In his Sonnet 19, Shakespearepresents the timeless theme of Time's mutability ... ed,merely old. And age as Time will, the lover realizes 'My love shall in myverse ever live young.' Shakespeare eludes swift-footed devouring Time,giving immortality to youth, beauty, and one man's lo ...

(1 pages) 55 0 3.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare