First Folio

The title, "interior" is symbolic itself of the persona's self discovery, while the use of first person narration in the rhetorical question, "... have I been walking again ?..." exemplifies the persona's inner sense of conflict by highlighting the ironically uncertain nature of planned self-discoveries. The persona's challenges in response to…

director Thea Sharrock to contrast the French to the English, as well as emphasize the passion and turmoil that Henry V experiences. The pinnacle of the polarization between the King and the French is witnessed when comparing French Ambassador Montjoy’s first visit to King Henry V to his last visit, an effect created not only through scenery, but in power dynamics, body language, and tone. Beginning with the original meeting of the French…

Stereotypical villains are a concoction of selfishness, insensitiveness, and manipulativeness. Shakespeare creates his villains with a predetermined requirement of characteristics. His villains are outsiders within their society of whom are mistreated within their past. His evil characters have ambitions and desires, mainly bred from resentment, anger, bitterness, or pain. Throughout King Lear, Edmund’s villainous, analytical mind allows him to set up disputes between characters, while…

Shakespeare is well known for rewriting other people’s works and using their ideas as his own. One of his major inspirations is when he rewrote Genesis 3 and named it Macbeth. This movie retelling of the play is one of his best works because of its characters, development, irony, suspense, and larger theme. Similar to Genesis 3, Shakespeare has crafted the characters in Macbeth to parallel Adam, Eve, and the serpent. Shakespeare has emulated Macbeth to parallel Adam, Lady Macbeth to parallel…

Shakespeare’s heavy usage of personification can be seen in the first line. He humanizes the wind by depicting it puffing out its cheeks and blowing. Personification is common in this passage to portray that Lear is on the peak of insanity. His fall towards madness shows a complete change in character in this passage…

written by Shakespeare is 195. These famous works include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, Othello and Sonnet XVIII. Performed by Lord Strange’s Men playing company at The Rose in London, Shakespeare’s first published work was Henry VI on March 3, 1592. Shakespeare’s first credited work was Love’s Labour’s Lost in 1598. Published in 1609, many of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets are well known pieces of English Literature. Written with John Fletcher, Shakespeare’s last play was Two…

Throughout Shakespeare’s plays, he connects with the audience by putting them through a unique experience that was not seen in his time. His “creation of personality added to the representation of character” is what sets his plays apart from other plays. As Dr. Bloom said in his podcast, in more than one way Shakespeare invented the human and the personality as we know it today. The way his plays were written, prove that the more realistic the characters are, the more relatable they are. For…

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. In Julius Caesar, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Shakespeare outlines the story of the great Roman general: Julius Caesar, for whom the play is titled. Julius Caesar takes place in ancient Rome in 44 B.C., when Rome was the center of an empire expanding from Britain to North Africa and Persia to Spain. Yet even as the…

storyline of Hamlet as a striking catastrophe. Emotion fuels the fire of revenge within Hamlet and the basis for his actions. Emotion far overpowers his judgment and ability to realize when his actions appear irrational or unjustified. When Hamlet first encounters the…

One of the most dangerous characters in the whole play would be Aaron. Aaron has been known to be involved with harming Titus’s family and finding enjoyments out of it, and does not feel ashamed of his own actions, “And nothing grieves me heartily indeed, But that I cannot do ten thousand more.” (Shakespeare 175) And that can be described as a monstrous acts because taking action to harm somebody and from then looking forward to it would not be considered a normal feeling. Even to add on,…