William Shakespeare Short Biography Essay

Love is like a chemical reaction, a rush of dopamine in the human brain. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the psychological lens reveals how, many characters acted out in psychological distress due to a mix of love and dreams which form a potent “magic” or drug that can result in self discovery when love is blind and becomes revealed. Love is like a drug, especially in this tale of lovers. Dreams are a window to the soul and this dream could be a window into the audience's soul…

Hrafnkel’s Saga is an anonymously written Icelandic Family Saga from roughly the late 13th century. The central focus of its plot is a blood feud between a prominent chieftain Hrafnkel and a poorer farmer Thorbjorn’s family, initiated when Hrafnkel kills Thorbjorn’s son, Einar. The passage selected is earlier in the saga and is the first chapter directly related to the blood feud. Lines 1-3 introduce two critical characters of the saga. Einar, the first death of the feud, and Thorbjorn, his…

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato gives a long monologue in Act 4 Scene 1 after his daughter, Hero, faints from her fiancé’s accusations that she was seen with another man the night before their wedding. The words Shakespeare choses Leonato to say in that moment are telling about how women’s purity, trust of nobility, and honor were treated during the Elizabethan era. One of the first things to note is the way Leonato speaks about Hero recovering. He says, “Do not live, Hero, do…

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, or empathy can be found while examining the play Legend by Stanisław Wyspiański. The play depicts a story of self loss , family loss, and the loss of a hero. These three forms of loss in combination with the various devices used in the play that are character, dialogue, detail, and perspective all work conjointly to evoke a feeling of empathy in the audience. Each type of loss can be associated to a specific moment in the play, these…

Setting The Scarlet Letter was a very eventful book. The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter takes place in the 1600’s. The Scarlet Letter is a story about a woman, Hester Prynne, who committed a sin which caused her to have a child. The child’s name was Pearl, she was the biggest influence on the book because she was a living representation of the scarlet letter. The book has many settings from the forest to the scaffold to the brook to Hester’s cottage plus…

Shakespeare’s Caliban as an Analytical Tool in Post-Colonial Poetry Since his creation Shakespeare’s Caliban has famously informed a number of reinterpreted and expanded characters in major literary works spanning multiple centuries. Some works, such as Robert Browning’s “Caliban Upon Setebos,” explore the character in an outright and explicit manner that expands Caliban’s experience in new or different settings, whereas others, such as Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa,” indirectly explore…

Although, she doesn’t seem like a problem, she can be inconsequential of her short-tempered children. Ever since Walter was too caught up in the insurance check and Lena told him no; She went ahead and bought a home down in Clybourne Park. Where no black men live. Once Walter got the news, he was quite shocked and even more upset…

The main point of The Crucible, which was written by Arthur Miller, was to show the irony of the time period it was written during, which was the red scare. The origin of the story leads to it containing an abundance of unreasonable ignorance and hysteria. At the middle of all of this societal chaos is a character who is willing to sacrifice not only his reputation, but his life, in an attempt to show the truth and save the innocent, bringing the justice in the eyes of the ignorant. This…

Sanjuro, a movie published in 1962, was a sequel to Yojimbo. This movie stars same character as its samurai from Yojimbo. This movie suggests that in this modern world having wisdom is consequential. Sanjuro lacks samurai qualities and does complete opposite of what samurai are known for. This makes everyone question his loyalty but he shows he has great wisdom throughout the movie. He is just very smart and the fact he has capability of analyzing the situation to come up with a solution is…

In William Shakespeare’s Othello, turmoil within relationships drives the plot forward. Othello and Desdemona have their obvious issues which Iago creates, but less notably, Iago and Emilia face their own problems within their marriage. Throughout the play, Emilia maintains a dual loyalty between her mistress, Desdemona, and her husband, Iago. Iago’s pre-existing lack of respect for Emilia coupled with his desire to divide Othello and Desdemona creates an overall negative environment for Emilia.…