First Triumvirate

While we do have these characters in The Crucible and 12 Angry Men we also have one character in each play arguing for justice, to stop the execution of innocent people. In 12 Angry Men, we have Juror #8 who changes the other jurors minds slowly, the first change of voting happens when the foreman tallies the votes from the second vote. He says “ Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Please. Six guilty. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty. Not guilty. Guilty.” (Rose 26) Juror #8 was able to…

Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers who want to love each other freely, but in the end, it concludes that they both die by committing suicide. Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers who can’t be together because of the families that they live in. Juliet is a Capulet, and Romeo is a Montague. The feelings that Romeo and Juliet had for each other were feelings of true love because they killed themselves because they couldn’t be together, they love each other over their own families, and…

Fate and Free Will Life is like a game of cards. The hand one is dealt is determinism; the way one plays it is free will. In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Macbeth is told he will be king one day. He then has to decide if he has to make his own fate by killing the king, or let nature take its course. It is Macbeth’s own free will to kill the king, showing that fate could be permitted but it’s one’s free will on how it shall be reached. The problem of fate and free will is also seen in…

In Shakespeare's play Othello and in Tim Blake Nelson’s film O , there were many similar themes shown but in two completely different settings and time periods. One of the major theme in both works was jealousy. In both works, the concept of jealousy is shown within the characters of Iago/Hugo and Othello/Odin and proved the film to be effective throughout. In Shakespeare’s Othello, jealousy plays a big role. Iago is jealous of Cassio because Cassio received a higher position in the Army than…

Arthur and et al). His multiple murders are great examples of external conflict as well. To cover his own tracks, he kills Duncan’s guards violently and his murder count goes up to three. He goes through the motions of regret after committing the first few murders, which is his internal conflict. He also struggles internally when deciding if he should kill Duncan or not. There are also supernatural elements (another characteristic) such as the witches and Banquo’s…

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to link William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet with the concept of metatheatre, is the play which is staged by young Hamlet to confront his uncle Claudius with the murder of the old king Hamlet. Nevertheless, even though nothing qualifies more as metatheatre than this particular scene, the play-within-a-play is not the only significant device of metatheatre in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are several more metatheatrical plots that can be detected in the…

With as much as literature and entertainment have evolved in the past 400 years since the honored genius William Shakespeare popularized theatre and genres such as the Tragedy and Comedy, people still remember his work by reading and seeing it performed from time to time. People are even shown techniques he pioneered on his own such as words he invented and comic relief. In the play Macbeth, it has been debated for years about the value of the Porter’s scene and whether or not it is comic relief…

In the first chapter, Daschuk focuses on the earlier years of that period and on the medical aspects. He discusses the several diseases that affected Natives during the earlier years of the treaty period and how mostly religious groups treated them. He highlights…

those hardships were relieved and I wouldn’t have to live in an horrible place, where I couldn’t enjoy my life a bit. In my heart, I forgave my parents. ‘Happy days are coming,’ I said to myself once while riding a bus to an American school for the first time; in fact, a picture like that is worth a thousands of words. I was introduced by my teacher as an Asian kid, who flew from India to get an education in America; however, instead of giving me warm welcome, people had started mocking me,…

The effectiveness of the representation of particular groups in texts is often the source of much conjecture. The stage drama, The Secret River, adapted by Andrew Bovell and set between September 1813 and April 1814, is moderately effective in representing the Dharug people’s perspective of land ownership, inter-race relationships and their own cultural values. Such perspectives are conveyed by Bovell’s use of dramatic conventions in order to humanise the Dharug perspective and add a dimension…