Ghost story

As one analyzes both How to Read Literature Like a Professor and the character speech from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a connection can be distinguished between Professor Foster’s guide in chapter 20 about seasons and the speech’s course. Throughout the speech, the seasons seem to guide our anonymous narrator -who seems to stand for Henry VIII - through a passage of time that leads him to a fall that he cannot return from- the death of his pride and reign. Throughout the speech, the seasons are…

In the story “ The Legend of Swiper and Alo” by Trevor Blevins is about a fox that steals food from a village to feed his family during the Native Times. The fox is doing crime in order to keep his family. The man thinks the fox is just stealing just to steal from the natives. The theme of this story is, everyone has a different perspective and reason in certain situations. In the man’s perspective, he sees the wolf as a criminal. The author uses a hyperbole to exaggerate how desperate Alo is…

Hamlet The consequences of taking revenge can sometimes be server and painful. The play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare demonstrates a tragic hero who tries to take revenge on King Claudius for murdering his father. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet, the protagonist, cannot make up his mind about killing Claudius, the antagonist, in order to avenge his father’s death. In my opinion, it is his fault to not be able to make up his mind about killing Claudius, because Claudius a bad person.…

was Hamlet actually insane? After the murder of his father and his mother’s remarriage to his father’s murder who is also his father, Hamlet is an extreme mourning, all the signs of depression are visible. Starting off Hamlet’s madness, his father’s ghost comes to him, declaring him to take revenge on his uncle. “Murder most foul, as in the…

Hamlet’s Fear and Fury What does it take to push a person over the edge? And what is the natural human response to that pain? These are questions that are brought up countless times in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The play surrounds the life of Hamlet, a young prince who is dealing with his father’s death and attempting to avenge his murder. This play is produced into two films by directors, Kenneth Branagh and Michael Almereyda. One of the key differences between the films is the way the…

In conclusion, the different literary works show all different types of struggles teaching one lesson to overcome it. Beginning with social struggle: Beowulf, "The wife's Lament”, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Sir Gawain and the Green Night. Each one faces a social struggle to play their role in society. Everyone role in society is crucial, if not taken seriously it impacts the whole community. Gawain and Beowulf as great warrior, teach one to follow their duty as to defend the…

being the true malefactor of the story. It first starts off with Hamlet’s drive to revenge his father’s death concocting a plan to make everyone believe he is going mad so he can stay under the radar of having the King find out that he knows what he did. Eight people including himself die at the hand of crazy Hamlet and his best friend Horatio is the only one left alive and the tell the story. Compare Hamlet’s eight to Claudius’s one and the true villain of the story is revealed. The first to…

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the main character, Tom, and his guardian have a distinctive relationship compared to the other parental ones displayed. It is evident that his guardian, Aunt Polly, wants to raise him to become a good citizen, however, she is thwarted by his adventurous and mischievous spirit. Hence, I wanted to show how maturity impacts the interaction between two people through a father-son and mother-son relationship. To illustrate, the novel opens with Aunt…

The play Hamlet is a clear example of what betrayal does to the characters and meaning of a story. Claudius’ betrayal of his brother is a betrayal that filters down to the entire kingdom. The meaning that betrayal comes back to get you is the overall theme of Hamlet. Hamlet himself embodies this theme through his interactions with the other characters. The tones he expresses with them push forward the meaning of the work as a whole. Claudius’ betrayal to the kingdom and to Hamlet creates the…

During Shakespeare’s period, the nobles were not the only people attending his plays. “Groundlings” and “stinkards” – crowds of commoners who paid little to watch from the pit and the outside, were also often mesmerized by Shakespeare. Karen Prior concludes that there is “one ‘commoner’ population to whom Shakespeare can hold special significance: convicts.” An influx of programs involving the performing of his plays has occurred in the last few decades. This essay will focus on how Shakespeare…