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it can be ranging from genetics to the roles of environment and experience in shaping an individual’s personality. However, most of the individual’s personality characteristics are learned and with relatively little influence of genetic factors. First of all, the individuals’ personality can be said…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

Considered to be one of the best—if not the greatest writer in the English language—William Shakespeare continues to dominate the world of literature, nearly five hundred years after his death. His infamous novels: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, King Henry VI, to name a few, are celebrated and read at every corner of the globe; however, it is Shakespeare’s sonnets that continue to hold a sense of mystery as they are far less analyzed in comparison to his plays. Shakespeare’s sonnets appeal to…

Shakespeare is known for his plethora of ingenious plays, however some of his best characters are the women in his plays. They are not carbon copies of each other and they have their own faults and virtues. The women in his plays can be either very typical women of the time or like Desdemona and Cordelia, be very forward-thinking women. Critics cannot look at these two characters and not have something to say about how these women act or how they do not act. These two are some of this author’s…

Three Witches or The Weird sisters are the starting point of the chaos, natural disorder, confusion, bloodbath and destruction of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the play. The Three Witches appear in Act I, Scene I; Act I, Scene III and Act IV, Scene I. First of all, in Act I, Scene I, The Three Witches appear in a Scottish moor between thunder and lighting. The Three Witches announce plans to reunite with Macbeth in rhyming tones and casting…

into English in 1954. Waiting for Godot is the most popular play in every corner of the world. Therefore, this play has been performed as a drama of the absurd with astonishing success in Europe, America and the rest of the world in post second world war era. Waiting for Godot delineates the events of two consecutive days in the life of Beckett's non-heroes Estragon and Vladimir. As they wait for the ambiguous Godot to arrive, they pass the time by debating about whether to commit suicide.…

Shakespeare’s play ‘A Midnight Summers Dream’ has two male characters Oberon and Theseus who are of no relation, but they both have similar characteristics. Along with the similarities they share many differences as well. Shakespeare uses several techniques to make his readers clearly Oberon is king of the fairies while Theseus is the Duke of Athens. Although Oberon might be an immortal character in the play, he holds human traits because of the mistakes he makes. In fact, both he and Theseus,…

other, an instrumental rendition of the song that was playing at the party, “What is a Youth,” when they met began to play. This musical element is used to give the viewers a callback to the scene at the beginning of the film when Romeo and Juliet first met, which is when Romeo and Juliet fell in love. In this film, the music is used to show that Romeo and Juliet are in love. Similarly to Zeffirelli’s movie, Baz Luhrmann’s film uses music from their version of the party scene to convey the…

characters mature and the exact moment when they make that transformation. Both of the characters mature in the play some of the many ways Juliet matures with be explained throughout this paragraph. The way Juliet matures throughout the play is at first she was obedient and she listened to everyone else's opinion instead of having an opinion of her own. Juliet's father tells her she must marry Paris in the middle of the…

“William Shakespeare’s “Henry VI Part II” was his first play, he ever performed” (Mabillard " 2000). A man who wasn’t well known at his time began to become more distinguished as time went on. Long after the death of Shakespeare, many people claimed that he was one of the best British poets and playwrights of all time. The lacking documents and his mysterious past makes him all the more interesting. Even though we don't know much of Shakespeare, his works were contained with symbolism and…