King Claudius

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the playwright tells the fictional story of a tragic hero who is called upon by his father’s ghost to avenge his death. By using a variety of literary and rhetorical devices and displaying a pessimistic attitude towards his situation, Hamlet is able to effectively convey his thoughts and emotions to his audience. Hamlet’s use of antithesis, metaphors, and negative language throughout his soliloquy, allows him to send the message to his audience that he is deeply…

Revenge of The Demon Lover A promise is a promise, in return to a failed promise revenge will always take place. In the short story The Demon Lover, Bowen uses the primary character Mrs. Drover, to depict how far one person will go for revenge and the internal conflict of a memory. Mrs. Drover is murdered by an ex-lover who wants his bitter revenge after a failed promise. Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899 and died in 1973, she was an upper middle class writer, from Dublin, Ireland. The turn of…

the outcome for either his body or his soul. In fact, by feigning insanity and breaking tradition, he hastened the exposition of his own corruption. It is this understanding that spurs him to be able to overcome his indecision and act. Murdering Claudius is an act that damns him to hell, and he is only able to do it after realizing that he has already corrupted himself by existing outside of the bounds of…

Shakespeare’s plays are known to display countless themes, some of which manifest through the body of the works as a whole. There is a dichotomy between appearance and reality in Shakespearean works. The idea that people or things in the world are often not what they seem, falls at the heart of all his plays. The false appearances of the characters often lead to the climax. The reality is the truth of what exists, but the appearance is merely what someone makes something look like. There are…

madness and the murder of Polonius by Hamlet also reveals that he was mad; when he is having an interview with her mother, he hears the word “help” from behind the arras. Not knowing the identity of the person who is hiding there he takes it to be Claudius and draws his sword and kills Polonius. Only afterwards does he find out it is Polonius, but with least remorse he marks; “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune Thou find’st to be too busy…

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare Ophelia painfully removes herself from her intimate relationship with Hamlet out of obedience to her father’s request as she must carry out her father’s wishes as an unmarried young woman. Ophelia is treated like a pet throughout the play and seems to be but an object that the other characters use to their benefit. The play progresses and the broken relationship seems only to hurt Ophelia more and Hamlet as well as he does not know that it was Ophelia’s father…

Robin Hood to the three squires who was held by the King because they killed the King’s deer. Robin Hood disguises himself as a beggar, tricks the sheriff with the help of his followers and he saves the three men from the death penalty in Nottingham. Argument “Robin Hood and Three Squires” (n.d.) portrays Robin Hood as an intelligent person. Analysis When Robin Hood arrives at Nottingham and receives the news that his three followers were caught by King, he quickly travels to the punishment…

Throughout the play “Hamlet”, Ophelia grows mad as a result of constant tragedies that she is afflicted with. Act 4, Scene 5 is knows as “Ophelia’s mad scene” because it is in this scene where suddenly begins to go mad. In the scene, she speaks about her father’s death and how he lays in the cold ground. As learned earlier in the play, Hamlet killed Ophelia’s father, Polonius, with the intention of killing his own Uncle. Instead he takes the life of one of the most important people in Ophelia’s…

In 430 B.C around when drama first came to be, Sophocles wrote the play Oedipus Rex, a story of the great king of Thebes who killed his own father and took his mother to bed. A baffling tale of fate and incest that surprises all who read it. Many wonder why he would write such a morbid play; it’s main character made to do foul things without knowing and later coming to realize his dirty deeds and be haunted by them. Did Sophocles have a point to prove? A lesson to teach? The play seems to play…

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…