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“Anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.” This quote by Lawrence Douglas states how anger is destructive and can cause nothing but trouble. Similarly, Tybalt from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is an example of how anger, when out of control, can ruin everything. Tybalt’s words and actions do nothing but provoke the Montagues, more specifically Romeo, as he tries to defend the Capulet family. Over the course of the play, Shakespeare shows how Tybalt is…

An evergreen trigger of emotion that slowly takes over one as they become skeptical their significant other is significant to someone else besides themselves, in other words, jealousy. People are known to feel jealous when they suspect that their treasured bond with someone or a desire is threatened by a third party that was definitely not invited. In the play, Othello by William Shakespeare, the theme of jealousy is consistent throughout the text and portrayed by many such as the protagonist,…

Mika Shapshovich Mr. Doherty English 8 January, 2018 The Human Nature of Manipulation for Power: Hamlet, Claudius, and Polonius in Hamlet by Shakespeare Manipulative individuals use their power to deceive others for social status or power. Evidently, manipulation is used to alter the perception of others through deceitful and misleading acts. When a person possesses surplus power they become insecure and unstable, which causes the person…

Can a murderer be a hero? Many would argue no, but such a response can be both incomplete and close-minded. While a character such as Brutus, from within Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, can very easily be judged as being evil due to a superficial deconstruction of his actions, his true character is found only upon deeper analysis. Brutus does suffer from what appears to be an objective lack of morality; however, further analysis of his motives, his internal conflicts, and…

A cynical man named Montresor that seeks revenge from his “friend” Fortunato and successfully murders him brings him the exact opposite of what his name means, fortunate. Poe on the other hand, the author of this story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, was brought good fortune from this tale he made that became popular and got to make good money off of it. This success did not come with just his well thought out plot for the story, but also many other elements, mainly literary elements. Edgar Allan…

Deceptions Downfall Shakespeare’s characters use deception unlike any other author ever in the play Othello. One of his most deceptive characters ever was Iago, Shakespeare makes the reader feel as if Iago is trying to deceive them. Iago’s mind tricks on unreal he turns lovers on each other even friends however, this deception has a price. Iago’s deceptive nature drive’s him to destroy Othello, Desdemona, Emilia, and himself. Iago’s lack of faith in his companions leads him to deceive…

A) Contextualize: “The Disabled Debauchee” This passage includes the last three stanzas of the poem, where the speaker proclaims he will become “statesman-like” for libertines, encouraging them to act lewd when he can no longer perform. This passage occurs after the speaker has described libertine acts as a naval warfare through word choice and imagery. He plans to encourage others to perform debaucherous acts through the tales of his own influential sexual experiences. B) Interpret the…

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. They leave people with unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Leonardo da Vinci. It as created sometime between 1503 and 1519, when he was living in Florence. ("Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci Arts." UKessay.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 01 2018) It now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a complex novel full of controversy, in a timeline that is both distant and relatable to the reader. In the world that is A.F. 632 life is something to indulge in, acting on one's urges is common, along with overly active sex lives, and constant drug abuse. Individuality has been lost to the past and new lower function human hybrid twins are everywhere. But in this strange world a character seems to stand out against the odds, making an identity for himself…

Class as a dominant feature in Othello, utilises the hierarchal structure of Venetian society at the time of the play’s setting, providing a rigid framework within the play to explore cultural and societal values. At the time of Shakespeare writing Othello (1604), England was experiencing political and social unrest as a result of tensions between the monarchy and land owners. There was widespread poverty with the average man not having the right to vote and women possessing no rights at all.1…