Essay on William Shakespeare

that he was stripped of his identity that lead to insanity all for his father’s vanity? What father who professed to love their own flesh and blood would ask for their demise for a calamity? Unlike a traditional Shakespearean revenge tragedy, Shakespeare creates the focal character as incapable of being a revenger. The complexity arises when the audience identifies that Hamlet is not fit for such title and the continuation of murder is an act of self sacrifice trading his identity as a…

One of William Shakespeare’s great tragedies, King Lear, depicts the disastrous consequences and the descent into madness of an English King, Lear, after endowing and splitting his kingdom into 2 for his daughters. In Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 1- 26, this descent escalates into a climax as Lear stands in the middle of a heath, raging to the thunderstorm drowning on him from above to fall and cause destruction. Prior to this his two ungrateful daughters were relentlessly maltreating him, causing him…

William Shakespeare is believed to be one of the greatest playwrights in history. His plays are performed everywhere in the world today and students of all ages read and write papers about the plays he is credited for writing. What if, however, William Shakespeare did not write any of the plays that the people of this world give him today? What if someone else wrote them and William Shakespeare stole the works? What if another playwright used William Shakespeare as a public figure to hide his…

and tragic deaths, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, slowly but surely not only deteriorates the city of Denmark but also sets free the once poisoned and corrupted city. As Shakespeare closes the play the audience is reassured, even through death, that “life is...indestructibly powerful and pleasurable” as said by Friedrich Nietzsche, who helps connect the ending of Hamlet by bringing his philosophical ideology to prove such a statement. With that of the mind of Shakespeare, even though several…

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare Ophelia painfully removes herself from her intimate relationship with Hamlet out of obedience to her father’s request as she must carry out her father’s wishes as an unmarried young woman. Ophelia is treated like a pet throughout the play and seems to be but an object that the other characters use to their benefit. The play progresses and the broken relationship seems only to hurt Ophelia more and Hamlet as well as he does not know that it was Ophelia’s father…

The play “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare is a play with various tragic moments that includes a very weird relationship between a son and a mother. Hamlet is a tragedy because Hamlet’s mother marries her own brother right after the death of her husband. Everyone dies at the end, and Hamlet is going crazy. Hamlet is upset with his mother because of her marriage and thinks it's wrong. Hamlet also thinks his mother is blind because she doesn't realize that the new king killed her husband, it…

In the play, Othello, by William Shakespeare, Othello is a character who has an eminent reputation. He is respected by a plethora of people and has great leadership abilities. Othello is manipulated by Iago to turn against his trusted lieutenant and murder his beloved Desdemona because of the twisted lies Iago told and the handkerchief incident. In the beginning of the play, Iago created a scene which made Cassio lose his reputation. This scene led Cassio to implore Desdemona for help because…

This essay is an argument about a character named Macbeth that is in the play The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The argument is whether Macbeth is controlled by fate or if he had his own free will throughout the play. This argument will show how Macbeth has his own free will because of these reasons on why he has his own free will and not controlled by fate. The first reason on why Macbeth has his own free will and not controlled by fate is at the part when he had murderers…

Foils in literature are characters who are used as parallels and contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. In the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, while almost every character is a foil to Hamlet, one especially stands among the crowd- Laertes. Hamlet and Laertes are placed in very similar situations throughout the course of the play. Hamlet’s father was murdered and felt duty-bound to seek revenge the same way Laertes’s father was…

Othello, written by William Shakespeare, is a classic play that toys with the emotions of both the characters within the play and the audience members. This tragedy centers around Othello, a war hero turned general, and the way his decisions affect the world around him. Othello’s assistant, Iago, schemes against Cassio, the newly appointed and fired lieutenant, by feeding lies to Othello. Iago tells Othello that Othello’s new wife, Desdemona, is cheating with Cassio. Act III provides Othello’s…