King Leopold's Ghost

Throughout Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses imagery to paint out images in your mind. He uses the language to express what is happening in the play because they are very minimalistic. Since they have limited resources and props they are forced to show what happens through words. This play spotlights various examples of imagery to help the audience understand this historical tragedy. He uses words to show all of the crazy things Casca sees during the day, to show…

Eve Richards L.Liebl 10A Hour 4 Expository Essay 1 Nov. 2017 This quote by Sidney Howard describes the struggles these characters have to go through and what they have to give up in order to get what they want, "One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." In William Shakespear's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, many characters have their goals, motivations or wants that are driving their actions. Three people in this play all have one thing in…

Like all sensible ghost stories, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House sets a lure for its protagonist. within the classic version of the shape, as established by British author M.R. James, the hero may be a gentleman of gently inquiring bent: a scholar, a collector or antiquarian. What lures him into the neighborhood of the ghost is commonly intellectual curiosity and infrequently greed; what attracts the ghost's wrath or malevolence is that the hero's tendency to intervene, to open the…

Why Shakespeare has Hamlet and Ophelia go mad and show signs of insanity While reading through the Shakespearean composition about Hamlet, the theme that lends itself to further scrutiny is that of deception. Each of the characters in the composition is used in one way or another to develop the theme, and Hamlet and Ophelia are not exceptions to this. For Hamlet, on the one hand, Shakespeare intends to epitomize deception through this character, and the approach he uses is that of feigning…

Hamlet has been performed and recreated in countless ways. Each variation holding a different experience for the audience through the creative choices that the directors make. The three versions of Hamlet each showcase a new and unique interpretation of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, “To be or not to be”. Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Hamlet released in 1990, Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation in 1996, and lastly the latest modern adaption out of the three, Michael Almereyda’s released in 2000.…

Throughout literature, authors manipulate their characters in certain manners to help the audience discover their identities and their personalities. One way that Shakespeare presents Iago’s character in Othello is through Iago’s sacrifices throughout the play. Shakespeare communicates Iago’s pure craving of revenge through what Iago is willing to give up. Iago is willing to sacrifice all the honor that is and could ever be associated with his name for the simple idea of Othello’s downfall. As…

HAMLET’S MADNESS AS FEIGNED: Though many critics have delivered the verdict on Hamlet’s madness as genuine and real, but their judgments were counter answered by others who proved logically and rationally that Hamlet’s madness was feigned or assumed, but not real and genuine. The very first argument given by them is that, “A mentally deranged Hamlet could not have proved a tragic hero, because in our definition of the Shakespearean tragedy we have seen that the tragic consequences must proceed…

We only think it's only sadness that hurts, but sometimes, happy memories hurt the most. Findley of remembrance proudly and sadly recalls a heart-warming and precious memory of him and his brave uncle Tif who died because of war, while Liam of Black Mirror tries to figure out his suspicion about his wife Ffi but when he finds out the truth that she has cheated on him for a long time with Jonas, he takes out his grain where all of his memories are stored. Though this two protagonist both gets sad…

Honest Criticism The movies reviewed in the videos include Halloween, 300 and Frozen. They all contain different types of Criticism. The movie Halloween has two different types of criticism, feminist criticism and reader-response criticism. Secondly, in the movie 300 the type of criticism used is reader-response criticism. Finally, from the movie Frozen the type of criticism used is psychoanalytic criticism. I will provide examples of why I feel these types of criticism are used in each of…

Jake Risavi Dr. Jadwin English 9/24/17 The Truth of the White’s Tragedy In the movie Apartment 143, a ghost is haunting the main family and they hire a paranormal investigative team to stay there and help them rid the apartment of the demon. In the beginning of the movie we see the head investigator, Dr. Helzer, interview the father of the family, Alan White. Alan claims he believes the ghost is most likely is deceased wife, Cynthia. Alan tells us the story about how his wife died in the…