Jester

Stories that aim to frighten will attempt to develop an ambiance that evokes uncertainty. It must create scenes that exhibit verisimilitude; it is a necessity to contain details that add to the realism. The Cask of Amontillado is a fictional horror that presents the act of premeditated murder, biased revenge, and injustice. The imagery presented within the setting elevated all of three. The setting of The Cask of Amontillado plays a crucial role in the narrative; it is not merely a backdrop…

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon is the fairy king; his right-hand man, and quite possibly one of the most important characters in the play, albeit unexpectedly, is Puck, or Robin Goodfellow. When first encountering Puck he seems to be merely a “jester” in service to Oberon, nothing more. However, upon further reading the audience quickly discerns that he is much more than Oberon’s entertainment. Puck is crucial to the plot progression and overall tone of Midsummer Night’s Dream. He…

“The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” is believed to have been written between the year 1599 and 1601, and although the play actually takes place in the Middle Ages occasionally reference to the Elizabethan era are made. During this time plays revolving around revenge and tragedy were quite popular. It was not uncommon to see at the end of a play that all the major characters end up dead. In this particular revenge tragedy, Prince Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost who tells him his…

passed. After watching the first gravedigger tossing skulls as he sings songs, Hamlet approaches him; however, the gravedigger does not know that it is Hamlet, so he speaks to him in what he calls a sharp manner. One of the skulls was Yorick’s, a court jester, whom Hamlet knew as a child. Yorick’s skull represents Hamlet’s realization and acceptance of death and its outcomes. Shortly after, the king and a small group behind him come bearing a coffin for the grave and Hamlet is unaware this is…

Inside the house, Lois tells Stewie ‘Why don’t you go play in the other room?’, to which he replies ‘Why don’t you go burn in hell?’. The similar construction of the sentences is part of the humor of the scene. Nevertheless, it was regretfully removed in the adapting process: when Lois says ‘Je préférerais que tu ailles jouer dans ta chambre’, Stewie answers ‘Un jour tu paieras cette cruauté’. The translators could have seriously kept the effect by having Stewie say something along the lines of…

In Twelfth Night, a play written by William Shakespeare, morals are a highlighted part of each character’s temperament, in the play, characters’ who have bad morals are treated poorly. An imperative part of a personality is one’s morals; morals isolate people from being obedient and disobedient. There are four humours that the characters are categorized into, they include: phlegmatic, melancholic, choleric, and sanguineous. Some of male characters who represent three of these humours are Sir…

dirt-filled skull simply belongs to a human. Anyone from any walk of life, holy or unholy, rich or poor, will reduce to dust over time and be forgotten. This walk of life can relate to Hamlet himself. A gravedigger reveals one skull to belong to a court jester from Hamlet’s childhood. “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it.…

Montresor first meets Fortunato at the carnival, Fortunato is already noticeably tipsy. Morsberger states, “To accomplish it, Montresor waits until carnival season, a time of “supreme madness,” when Fortunato, already half-drunk and costumed as a jester, is particularly vulnerable.” After convincing Fortunato to come back his vault, Montresor does not stop him from drinking. Montresor continues to encourage Fortunato to drink more as they are walking through the catacombs. This continues to…

He recounts this tale from his past of hid nemesis-of-the-moment, a man named Fortunato. Both are present at this celebration of excess and indulgence, dressed in festive costume. By no accident on Poe’s part, Fortunato is outfitted colorfully as a jester—a fool. The troubled Montresor clarifies his motive for revenge that after an off-hand insult was hurled at him in the recent past by Fortunato, he pledged his, albeit extreme, revenge against the fool. A plan has been devised in the days…

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young prince of Denmark is faced with many conflicting events that affect his psychological mindset. After spending the majority of his life under his father’s shadow, his father’s sudden death is traumatic and leaves Hamlet to ponder on his own under the influence of the new King of Denmark, his uncle Claudius. The unraveling events that occur in the tragedy trigger the prince of Denmark’s turn to insanity and leave us questioning whether or not his grip on…