Ghost Dance

Piero plans the murder of Antonio’s friend, Feliche, whose dead body is carried to Mellida’s chamber in order to accuse him of adultery; all resulting in the cancelling of marriage. Antonio is being informed of the villainies by the appearance of the ghost of his father, and it is then when he adopts role-playing and disguise -a form of creating a new self- to see those who have had plotted against him. He and Pandulpho, Feliche’s father, are driven to two different extremes of the pole: passion…

Everyone sees the play Hamlet as this great tragedy and a quest for revenge, and it is one, but it’s also filled with so much deception. The characters lie to each other, they spy and create plans to find out information. Their use of hidden yet obvious deception just goes to show how rotton human beings can be with each other and how easily they can turn on one another to further themselves to get what they want. It eventually shows that by using all your energy towards a plan of revenge, can…

Through the play The Dumb Waiter, Pinter wants to convey that everyone is prone to death. No one is safe in this world. The two hit-men Ben and Gus are waiting for their victim whom they are to kill. They have been paid for the work. But they are unaware of the fact that one of them is the victim. Though Ben and Gus are partners, yet someone has used and employed Ben to kill his own partner – Gus; and this remains a secret with them until the last moment. Gus who, until the last, plays the role…

Queen Gertrude’s conversations with other characters throughout William Shakespeare’s Hamlet establish her as a complaisant and passive character. This is mainly demonstrated through the fact that the only time she speaks in the first two acts of the play is when she speaks either directly to Hamlet or to Claudius about how unnecessary it is to mourn King Hamlet’s death. In Act I scene II, she reprimands Hamlet for how upset he is about his father’s death when it is natural that “all that lives…

There are many symbols in classic literature, but those used in The Glass Menagerie, are particularly unique. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play about the reflections of Mr. Wingfield, a man who abandoned his family in order to pursue his own future. In the play, Williams uses many symbols that signify many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play are used to symbolize some form of escape or distinction between reality and illusion. The entire play is centered…

The ghost presents believable evidence of being Hamlet’s father, but there are some hitches in his claims; one being that he mentions purgatory when Protestant churches reject the doctrine of purgatory. He encourages Hamlet to avenge him beginning Hamlet’s slow…

Ernest Hemingway’s contemporary short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” adopts the theme in Shakespeare’s Hamlet of accepting death, rather than excessively contemplating the inevitable. The contrast of Hemingway’s central characters, Francis Macomber and Robert Wilson, mimics the contrast of Shakespeare’s characters, Hamlet and Fortinbras. While some characters overanalyze every aspect of life, others prepare themselves for life’s uncontrollable events. No matter the approach…

Can you count all the important choices you’ve made in your life?How important were they?In what way has those choices impacted your life?In a short play called The Tempest by William Shakespeare, a character named Prospero is a man who had to make tough decisions that would soon reflect on him as a good. In the play prospero makes many decisions but he made three important decisions that prove he is a good man.His first important decision was “Then, as my gift, and thine own…

Name : Indah Arti Fisilla Class : 6A Exploring Drama The Betrayal of Edmund The character of Edmund in king Lear play known as a second child who is illegitimate to Gloucester. Edmund has one elder brother from different mother who called Edgar. He is obsessed with wealth and power. His intention to get the power as an earl in his own right needs him to inherit all the wealth and power from his father, Gloucester. In purpose to make his father feels that Edmund worth to get the inheritance,…

There are multiple kinds of struggles, both internal and external struggles are important for shaping a character in a novel. Shakespeare’s play MacBeth includes a thane, who, after meeting three mysterious people, wrestles with himself mentally over the thought of taking power. He fights with his wife, with his friends, and with himself. MacBeth’s internal and external struggles are contrasted with Lady MacBeth’s struggles to portray themes of masculinity. MacBeth’s internal struggle over…