Helena Bonham Carter

Shakespeare has a tendency to analyze that “The course of true love never did run smooth”(A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Act 1, Scene 2). In Othello, William Shakespeare explores a tragic love that is caught in rumors and judgment. His play has been adapted into films, plays, and stories such as Djanet Sears’ 1990s adaptation, Harlem Duet. Sears explores Othello’s desire to protect himself in his romantic relationship through the voice of his first wife Billie. Shakespeare’s and Sears’ Othello…

Williams Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream presents situations and perfect examples of how difficult and wonderful the experiences of love can be. The play shows how love can affect emotions, decisions, and behavior, depending on the type of love that is expressed. Brilliantly displayed, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Titania, Egeus, and Bottom show examples of passionate, magical, and parental love through changing emotions and behavior throughout the play. The first type of love…

Shakespeare’s plays often touch on themes of love, marriage, and affection (of both the platonic and sensual matter). This is especially evident in both “Twelfth Night” and “Othello”, one being his “farewell to wit” and the other being a tragedy. Since both plays contain elements of tragedy, it is possible to examine love as a tragedy of sorts. In “Twelfth Night”, there are marriages without love (Sebastian and Olivia), love without marriages (Sebastian and Antonio), and love used to hurt…

Assumed to be the greatest love story of all time that captures the most beautiful moments of true love between two young star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, shows us how love can be both absolutely heart-wrenching and the most beautiful thing in the world at the same time. The play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare conveys many different types of love such as romantic and friendship love. During this essay, the two types of love are to be compared and contrasted. Romantic love is…

According to what I have said, it becomes clear that Romeo and Juliet's way of love is totally different from their parent's way of love; each party has his own rule of love and his specific own way to express such love. Obviously, Shakespeare draws this comparison between parental love and romantic love to show the audience that although love is seen as a natural, desirable, and beautiful feeling, one may express it in a way that could result in violence, and destructive acts, and anger is one…

Exoticism exists on a spectrum, from pure exoticism - the choice to represent or "other" an exotic a non-Western subject, to transcultural composing which is the result of the combination of Western and non-Western styles without any intent to "other" an exotic subject (Lecture). Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opera Comique in 1875 and was successful because of its violation of the social and operatic norms. The story was considered shocking at the time because it was about Carmen a "rebellious…

In both “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (“Dream”) and “The Tempest” (“Tempest”), Shakespeare aims to show the difference between the two kings of his plays. Oberon and Prospero contribute largely to the events that occur in both comedies- Oberon instructs Puck to create the love potion in “Dream” and Prospero got Ariel to help him capsize the ship the Duke of Milan, is on in “Tempest”. Inevitably, readers will compare the similarities and differences they have because of the same role they are given…

“Lust is wanting to sleep with them. Love is wanting to wake up next to them in the morning’’ - Dan Simmons, American fiction writer. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two so called “star crossed lovers” who think that their love is so strong that they will be brought together even in death if they cannot be together in life. However, due to their young ages, and small amount of time that they knew each other, they were not in actual love. There is no doubt that they lusted for each other, but in…

to marry a man named Demetrius, but Hermia is in love with Lysander, her lover. Thus beginning the rising action, the couple plan to escape the arranged marriage, she and Lysander elope into the woods. Demetrius follows them, and he is pursued by Helena, who nurses an unrequited love for him and is Hermia's friend. Then meanwhile in the woods, the fairy queen, Titania and her husband, Oberon, are have a quarrel over a page boy. Oberon has a plans to make his wife agree to hand the boy by making…

knight. Mischief- Puck is up to no good, he pours love potions on Titania and Lysander. The potion causes the people to fall in love with the first thing they see. Act 3: Love- Both Lysander and Demetrius are both in love with Helena because of the love potion. Anger- Helena is mad at Hermia because she is convinced this love from Lysander and Demetrius is…