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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many people believe that Hamlet has gone insane as he acts like a mad man in many parts of the play. He is able to fool those closest to him that he has gone crazy. However, the way that he is able to deal with one tragedy after another and how he shows level headedness and rationality in many situations and the way in which he feigns madness so that he can avenge his fathers murder shows us that he is anything but insane. Was he really insane or so fraught…

In Act five, King Lear states, “...for Gloucester’s bastard son was kinder to his father than my daughters [were to me]...” I completely disagree what King Lear is implying because Edmund was a worse child to his father, Gloucester, than Regan and Goneril to him. Edmund’s iniquitous behavior got him killed towards the end of the play King Lear by Shakespeare. His evil and wicked plans towards his father made him died. Edmund is the bastard son and his brother, Edgar, is the legitimate son of…

*SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* The Prestige by Christopher Priest is a science fiction mystery novel that is written partially as a narrative and partially in an epistolary style. The novel focuses on the rivalry between two magicians based in London during the time of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This same rivalry is more than a legacy, and shadows the family’s names for one hundred years into the future. This is why the descendants of the two magicians narrate the novel. Rupert Angier is an…

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, Claudius establishes himself as responsible for the death and destruction of many characters through the heinous act of murdering his brother, King Hamlet. Early in the play, a ghost, who resembles the dead King, appears to Hamlet and tells him the truth about his death. He was in fact murdered by Claudius. Hamlet becomes vengeful and begins to take on an act of lunacy. After Hamlet discovers the truth of his father’s death, his need for revenge…

'I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer,' urgues the Ghost of Jacob Marley (Dickens 30). The Ghost Of Jacob Marley came to Scrooge to warn him, trying to open his stone heart, to change his life of selfishness and greediness. The Ghost wanted to show Scrooge that the true happiness is in giving and in making other people happy. In the similar way as the Ghost of Jacob speaks to Scrooge, so the Ghost of…

Name Professor’s name Course Date Pinocchio the Shepherd Pinocchio the Shepherd is a monodrama written by Abdel Momen Ahmed. The play represents a monologue of a puppet master who prepares to the visit of the local ruler. The man speaks with his dolls, the audience and has a “dialogue” with the Sultan in the final scene. The monodrama starts with the conversation between the puppet master and his doll. The man complains about the “behavior” of his main actress and calls her grievances unfounded.…

To Be, or Not To Be: Shrew Edition What does it require of someone to be considered a shrew? The play, Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare explores the Elizabethan standards, in which Petruchio seeks to tame his wife, Kate, a labeled shrew. Although some believe that Katerina is not tamed from her shrew-like ways, the truth is that Katerina is tamed because she transforms throughout many of Petruchio’s trials, and proclaims the woman’s role in a traditional marriage. Tests and trials…

In 430 B.C around when drama first came to be, Sophocles wrote the play Oedipus Rex, a story of the great king of Thebes who killed his own father and took his mother to bed. A baffling tale of fate and incest that surprises all who read it. Many wonder why he would write such a morbid play; it’s main character made to do foul things without knowing and later coming to realize his dirty deeds and be haunted by them. Did Sophocles have a point to prove? A lesson to teach? The play seems to play…

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…

C. Janse van Rensburg 25018175 Assignment 8: The power of words in “Othello” ”Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs” (Hurd, s.a.). Shakespeare uses different techniques in “Othello” to express the way in which the power of words can have a negative effect on different characters. With reference to “Othello”, the way in which Shakespeare incorporates these techniques, namely words as a form of power, words as a way to shape characters’ identities, and the use…