Gertrude Stein

William Shakespeare, in his written drama, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, arrays an almost-overwhelming multitude of intense familial events, executed in such a way that the concepts of morality and corruption are slurred, sparking the opposing viewpoints of whether the concept of passion is more foundationally bound to love or to hate. Shakespeare uses contrasting, as well as comparative concepts to generate and maintain complex tensions and conflicts between the characters…

Love can be the most wonderful thing we can experience, but, at the same time, it can prove to be the most fatal. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, that exact message is sent. A central idea in that short story is that love becomes toxic when the one person takes the relationship more seriously than the other. This idea is shown throughout the passage as Mary Maloney is seen doing things that show how infatuated she is with her husband. As she was six months pregnant and a housewife, her…

Ophelia’s function in Hamlet is to be his love interest. My opinion on why she was included in this play was to make the audience think it’s a typical romance story. So, she serves to trick the audience into believing she’ll change Hamlet’s ways. If Ophelia wasn’t in the play, there’d be a minor to a moderate change in the story. Now, Ophelia is Laertes’s sister and Polonius’s daughter. It looks like Polonius is a single father and their family is close. It’s sensible to consider this, since…

The story of Macbeth follows the story of Macbeth, a thane, a good noble soldier after he has won a battle and given more land by the king for his accomplishments. Three sisters predict that Macbeth will be king and tells him and he goes crazy wanting to know more but doesn’t get it. His corrupt wife convinces him to kill the king so he can be the king and they two can be rich and powerful. At first Macbeth is quite hesitant until he does kill the king and he is awarded kingship since he was the…

This causes Gertrude to lie to her new husband because her son Hamlet killed him. This makes Hamlet think that everyone is against him because Polonius was hidden in the curtains. Hamlet accidentally kills him because he thought it was his stepdad the new king behind…

Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets, for his lover, in addition, almost every one of his sonnets there’s different views to Love. In sonnet 9 Shakespeare viewed love as the fear of dying and depart from his lover thus leaving her alone in the world. In Shakespeare's 9th sonnet he had a very important meaning, the meaning is the love for his lover and how he doesn't want her future ruined, for his own selfish reasons. Shakespeare uses figurative languages to help understand his meanings in his…

During the first and second act of the play Lady Macbeth is completely in control of the couples’ relationship, but from the third act onwards (after the death of Duncan), it appears that Macbeth is in control. This power balance is similar to that in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. Lady Macbeth always used to dictate Macbeth saying what he ‘must’ and ‘shall’ do (1.5.65). Similarly, Porphyria dominantly seduces her lover: ‘she put my arm around her waist,’ (16). Both Porphyria and Lady Macbeth are the…

Hamlet by william Shakespeare is a tragedy that has a bunch of curves and ups and downs. Prince Hamlet's tragic flaw is in inability to avenge his father's death he almost killed claudius but didn't want to kill him in prayer so he would go to heaven. Some exciting things happen in this book and I will explain with quotes and proof. Prince Hamlet is trying to avenge his father's death but loses his sanity along the way. He puts on a play to show how claudius kills King Hamlet by…

women can set inequitable stereotypes and prospects on women holistically. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy, he is saddened by his father's death , but his feelings soon transition to anger due of his mother's lack of grief. Hamlet feels betrayed by Gertrude and commences to have a negative view on all women: Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet, within a month— Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!— A little month,…

In the 2014 version of the film, The Great Gatsby, the scene in which Daisy meets Jay Gatsby for the first time in five years differs slightly from the scene described in the original novel. In the film, Director Baz Luhrmann uses contrasting color schemes between the homes of Nick and Gatsby to foreshadow the change in emotion and situations that will occur. While Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick are having tea in Nick’s home, Luhrmann makes emphasizes the tranquility and peacefulness of Nick’s home as…