Harold Bloom

Bloom regards Hamlet as Shakespeare’s masterpiece (Bloom). This is shone through his endless and vast work that has been not only inspired by Hamlet, but entirely based off of Hamlet. More than a muse to Bloom, Hamlet has become a template for his vision of the human race. This template is not contained in the seventeenth century, but is everlasting, to Bloom. Through Bloom’s eyes, the short an entertaining tale that William Shakespeare has created, is more than just that (Harold). It is…

Bloom, Harold, ed. "Bobby Martin, Harry Jones, and Dickie Delacroix." Shirley Jackson, Bloom 's Major Short Story Writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishing, 2001. Bloom 's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 23 Apr. 2016 Bloom’s article on “the lottery” provides an insight on the key issues of foreshadowing that is soon take place within the short story. Bloom gives information on Bobby Martin, Harry Jones, and Dickie Delacroix and how their actions are key to predicting what is soon to…

family with the financial problems, and he hopes that Biff will respect and honor him after his funeral. According to Bloom, "if Willy has tragic stature, it is because he is exiled from himself, and so can win no victory whatsoever" (8). Willey is sure that if he is not successful in business, he is not deserved to be loved and respected by his family. Bloom states that Willey is destroyed by love and by the "inevitable ambivalences that attend family romances" (9). The true aim of the main…

Bloom has been teaching at Yale University since 1955. The American Academy of Arts and Letter Gold Medal for Criticism was given to Harold Bloom in the year 1999. Both good and bad sides have their own ways of changing one’s identity either permanently or temporarily. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” debates the conflict between good and evil and the correlation among bourgeois violence, urban violence, and class structure.” (Bloom) Harold Bloom displays the difference between…

Christopher Melara English 1302.090 Ms. Ryan November 16, 2017 Prejudice’s Effect on Modern Society Revealed through Irony in Pride and Prejudice Annotated Bibliography Brown, J. P. (1987). Authorial voice and the total perspective. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. (p. 53-58). Brown recognizes Austen’s authorial voice as discerning above all the nonsense and confusion in the novel. Brown further explains that understanding of the truth and meaning of a situation…

Harold Bloom’s criticism “Bloom on A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a criticism of Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bloom wrote a two part analysis of the play. The first part is a comparison between Puck and Bottom, whom are both characters in the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The second part is comparing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with another Shakespearean play, The Tempest. Having not read The Tempest the second part of the criticism will not be mentioned in this paper. In part…

Harold’s key influences such as, Maude representing the new generation of freethinkers redefining traditional values and his mother representing the older generation of parents coaching their near-absolute values of conformity, reflect the widening generation gap of the 1960s. The adult figures in Harold's life are not satisfied with his lifestyle and wish for him to appear more like themselves or demonstrate what they believe to be right. Although the paths they take in order to advance him…

Harold Bloom, a Yale University professor, once said that “George Gordon, Lord Byron, is literature’s most notorious instance of a writer’s life becoming his work, indeed taking the place of it.” (Pesta, Bloom and Willis 1). Lord Byron was a famous poet that illustrated his emotions through his literature very effectively. Ironically, Byron enjoyed reading and writing, but hated poetry at an early age (Pesta, Bloom and Willis 9). However, Byron’s first piece of literature to be published,…

“Compensating Visions: The Great Gatsby.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom, 59-67. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. Print. Irwin begins his interpretation praising The Great Gatsby as his favorite American novel from when he read it in college. Although one might think the “emotional impact” Fitzgerald’s…

Nuttall, A. D. "Othello." A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality (London: Methuen, 1983): pp. 120–143. Quoted as "On Othello" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Othello, Bloom 's Shakespeare Through the Ages. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2007. Bloom 's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 22 Apr. 2016 . Throughout the article “On Othello” the author A. D. Nuttall states that Othello is not a hero, but more of a gullible “hero”. During these times, Othello was considered the…