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Shakespeare expresses through Juliet that love can be so powerful it can ruin families. He shows this through Juliet after she meets Romeo for the first time and learns he’s a Montague. Juliet thinks,“My only love sprung for my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown too late/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me/ that I must love a loathed enemy” (1.5.136-143). As she says, “My only love sprung from my only hate” she explains that the only man she loves is the son of the only man she is forced to…

Romeo and Juliet. The first time we meet Friar Lawrence in this play is in Act 2 Scene 3, when Romeo comes to find the Friar to tell him that he has fallen in love with Juliet. Romeo and the Friar know each other very well, so the Friar understands him very well. When Romeo says that he wants to get married to Juliet, the Friar was shocked. “Holy Saint…

Shakespeare’s work is the most recited piece of literature other than the bible. He introduced many of the common words we use today. The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was a tragic love story. Taking place in Verona, Italy during the 1500’s, two people from families who were great enemies, quickly fall in love. Romeo and Juliet, the two people, face many obstacles that break their secret relationship and lead them to kill themselves. Fate is when something you cannot…

Girish Karnad’s use of Transfiguration as a literary device in Hayavadana and Nagamandala provides the reader with numerous prospects to explore human consciousness from various perspectives. The theme of identity crisis is revealed through transfiguration. Through his imaginative skills, Karnad introduces transfiguration of characters in his plays to entertain his audience. The objective of this study is to highlight the fulfilment of desires of the characters- Padmini in Hyavadana and Rani in…

Understanding Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is one of his most beloved plays. There are several notable themes that construct the play that makes the play great. Many elements within the play take on what it was like during Shakespeare's time, while others focused on political commentary. The play talks about the main character Viola and her disguise as a man, while look for her brother Sebastian. Her disguise creates a lot of misperception; many would say that Twelfth…

On a crisp morning in mid-May, I had made a resolve to a dominant my first game after a whole year. Waking up that morning, my past failures flashed in front of my eyes, losing a championship in my last game. Yet I was a new man. For one whole year, I was itching for the opportunity to prove myself, and my heart pounded with…

Taran Bedi Mr. Curnett English 9 Feb 17th The Correlation of Ignorance, Sight and Truth in Oedipus Rex Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex was written over 2,500 years ago. Although this play may seem ancient and irrelevant to today’s society, its themes and actions are relevant to modern society. Sophocles’ play Oedipus revealed many ideas that are now used in western drama. Sophocles’ use of dramatic irony became a new method for artists who wanted to create tension in the plots of their work.…

“That cannot be, since I am still possessed / Of those effects for which I did the murder: ‘My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen,” (Act 3, Scene 3, lines 54- 56). Claudius’ greed for the crown and the Queen, drives him to kill King Hamlet in the first place, which starts a domino effect of immoral acts. This demonstrates that greed is one of the seven deadly sins and is an immoral act, and they lead to all the deaths in the…

He is neither smart nor civilized, he is a native, and sometimes even portrayed as a monster. Caliban lives on the island before Prospero ever comes. He has no one to govern on the island except himself, “Which first was mine own king”(The Tempest I.II.342). Shakespeare is distinctively pointing out here that Caliban, having no subjects, is self-serving, unattached from any obligation to his people. Metaphorically saying that Caliban was self-governing. Bringing…

The modern drama, A View from the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller, is told from Alfieri’s perspective. Since the beginning of the first scene, he is established as the narrator for the story. In this essay, I will be analyzing the role of Alfieri in the play through a careful analysis of Miller’s stage directions for Alfieri’s character and his cryptic speeches in between the scenes. Fate and/or predestination is a predominant theme in A View from the Bridge, and Miller uses Alfieri’s…