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In his infamous play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the forbidden relationship between Romeo and Juliet to explore the ideas of change and impermanence. From feuding families, the two adolescents are banned from fraternizing with each other. However, the conflicts between their two families does not stop them from becoming star-crossed lovers. Over the course of their relationship, both characters constantly change affinities and feelings, depicting how evanescent love can be and how…

Supposedly based loosely on an erotic dream of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) embodies one of the most fascinating and symbolically sexualised characters in English literature. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ addresses Victorian anxieties regarding its women’s feminist awakening and breaking of patriarchal chains during the time and highlighted this fear in his novel. By focusing on these topics in his novel, Stoker, who was a staunch conservative Anglican and advocate of patriarchy, emphasises how women’s…

Women in this society are the opposite of men; they are objects to be conquered and possessed. Their voices do not count, their roles include pleasing their parents, getting married, and bearing children. (Thomas, 2013).They have no chance to be dependent and their opinions do not matter. Juliet’s mother says, “Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, /are already made mothers. By my count, /I was your mother much upon this years” (1.3.70-72). The play portrays changing gender roles for the men and…

To begin with, both stories are based on a tragedy that came between their love. The main characters are the ones who end up dead. I’m talking about the story about Romeo and Juliet which is not alike to Pyramus and Thisbe, but there are some similarities. Let me start off with the differences. In your own perspective, you can tell me if there mostly alike or not alike. Romeo and Juliet didn’t know each other, they didn’t talk about each other before, didn’t communicate, and didn’t…

act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit into a certain category that was often unattainable. Dracula illustrates the gender roles of the Victorian age by following the eerie escapades of the Count Dracula and his victims. The stereotypes of the Victorian age seem to linger even after more…

Throughout Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author suggests that when people are mourning a loved one, they can express their love for them in ruinous ways. The belief of people acting in regretful methods because of intense love, is another concept that is reflected in the story of the two love birds. Romeo and Juliet conveys an idea of destructive behavior that is caused by impassioned love, when Romeo exhibits disastrous actions when he kills Tybalt, Paris, and even himself.…

As a young man or woman, love is a new concept that is often mixed up with attraction. People who experience the phenomena of “love at first sight” only find each other attractive. In the movie Romeo and Juliet, Romeo talks about how he has never seen a girl as beautiful as Juliet when he first lays eyes upon her. This means that he had found her beautiful and doesn’t necessarily love her. As a teenager, love is such a new abstraction and point of curiosity that teens do foolish things just to…

In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet’s, dreams were destroyed. A common question that is asked when reading this love story is, did Romeo have the power to choose what he wanted to do or was he destined to play his part in this tragedy? The hope Romeo and Juliet getting married and living happily ever after was crushed. Fate plays the role of a watchdog right from the start. Destiny, a greater power, takes control and signals the outcome of the star-crossed lovers story. Romeo’s fate…

Would you rather be single or be with the wrong person? In the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Swedish singer Christine Daae is torn in a weird love triangle between two men: the handsome, rich, yet controlling and jealous Raoul, the Viscount of Chagny and the mysterious, talented, yet ugly and violent Erik, the Opera Ghost. Raoul was Christine’s childhood sweetheart and he wants to win her back. Erik is a masked man that slowly falls in love with Christine, while he hides…

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet the characters Tybalt and Benvolio are presented as personalities opposing each other throughout the play.Tybalt is staged as a character who prefers to take action and fight to be patriotic to his family. On the other hand Benvolio who is Romeo's best friend chooses to keep peace between him and Tybalt, but likewise between the two families - Montagues and Capulets. And Shakespeare has given both Tybalt and Benvolio the necessity to be loyal to their…