Disguise

Under the disguise of his new appearance, Jekyll acquires the name Edward Hyde. Hyde, who is not expected to behave in a polite or pleasant manner, is free to act however he chooses without the fear of judgement. In this way, Stevenson presents a character that relished in his new freedom that he acquires while under a disguise. Hyde’s features and stature “gave an impression of deformity”, yet Jekyll is delighted by…

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer begins with a noble knight sharing a story. The Knight's Tale starts off with an unfortunate war between Athens and Thebes. Theseus, the leader, and ruler of the Athenian people showed no mercy and demolished all of Thebes. Towards the end of the war, Theseus took Palamon and Arcite, two high ranking men in Thebes, as captives of war. He brought them back to Athens to imprison them for life. While in jail Palamon and Arcite noticed a beautiful lady in a…

and really is not looking for another one. Viola believes that her brother is dead therefore she wants to get in contact with Olivia because she lost her brother too. She does the only thing she could do which is become a man to get to her. She disguises herself as Caesario and works for the Duke, who is Orsino, to find her. This creates a triangular love affair because Orsinio is in love with Olivia.…

“Ghosts” is a stage play written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The stage play was written in 1881, and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. (Mulyani, 2014) It was starred by Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Jones and Natasha Richardson. Ghosts begins with a conversation between Mr. Engstrand and his daughter Regina. He tried to convince his daughter to come back home, and leave Mrs. Alving’s orphanage, which was built for Captain Alving’s, her husband, 10th…

They were made fun of for taking serious social issues lightly and exploiting their explorations to spice up their lives and tell great stories at their events. Their propensity to disguise their identities also invited criticism. In Victorian culture the dress of the lady was a pass in society. Her jewelry and elaborate materials told of her husband’s wealth and disguising her outfit made a woman almost anonymous. Of course going incognito…

There was no reason to hide that so she might have started the rumor of Otis killing Sam while knowing that she killed Sam. Later on in the book I figured out that I was incorrect. Come to find out Sam was not dead. He was in disguise as different people. He took on disguise of Sam Westing, Barney Northrup, Sandy McSouthner, and Julian…

Gender roles in the Elizabethan age were staunchly more set than in today’s modern world. Compared to today’s relatively free environment where gender identity can be explored, Elizabethan audiences expected to see only two genders: male and female. The big shakeup in Twelfth Night, or What You Will offers a look into the duality of man and woman. At the end of the play, the heteronormative status quo is restored with the ambiguously gendered pairings by having Viola being united with her…

plot and additional subplots of the storyline. In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night the character Viola lands on the shores of Illyria after being involved in a shipwreck. Furthermore, she disguises herself as Cesario to serve for the local Duke, Orsino. In Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot Joe and Jerry disguise as women to join an all-female band which is headed to Miami. Through the use of the theme of deception through appearance, the film Some Like it Hot is a natural descendant of…

Comedic Devices in The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew is a romantic comedy that takes place in Padua, Italy, which was a prominent city-state during the Renaissance. The story revolves around two characters named Katherine and Petruchio who get married in a week’s time. In the play, The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, plot development relies upon the use of comedic devices as the characters all do crazy things, like pretending to be tutors in order to woo a lover, or being…

The main character in Tootsie, Michael Dorsey goes into disguise as Dorothy a woman. Whereas in The Importance of Being Earnest the main character is John Worthing, John goes into disguise as Earnest Worthing. Even though they are similar because they pretend to be something they are not, they both do this for different reasons. Michael in Tootsie is disguised as a woman…