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Cleopatra is not at a disadvantage in a male dominated world. To what extent do you think Shakespeare elevates Cleopatra over the other characters in the play. Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s greatest invention; a masterpiece full of colour and vitality. All of Shakespeare’s female characters provide vivid contrast to Cleopatra. Juliet, the young naïve girl and Lady Macbeth the powerful figure, are no match for the engaging and intoxicating Cleopatra. Juliet and Lady Macbeth seem to affect little…

INTRODUCION: Elizabethan Dramas are considered as the greatest dramas in the history of English literature. The greatness is that they are still read and widely performed across the world. We see many great dramatist and the great plays in this period of time. Shakespeare is considered as genius dramatist in the history of English literature. He is believed, by universal consent to be the greatest author of England and holds a central position in the Elizabethan drama. Shakespeare is believed…

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…

off a pair of boots; taking off a hat, adjusting it and then putting it back on again; and arguing about eating vegetables. On both days, they encounter a master Pozzo who drives his slave Lucky about the stage with a rope around his neck. On the first day, Pozzo is bringing Lucky to the fair to sell him. On the second day, Pozzo has gone blind and needs Lucky to lead him around the…

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…