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Literature has always been enraptured with love and describing its effects on people. In the theater, playwright John Lyly uses his play Galathea to paint his own picture and definition of love that is complex and ever-changing; through his characters Galathea, Phillida, and the goddess Diana’s nymphs, Lyly shows that love comes in different forms. Sometimes love is pure and innocent, while other times it is undesirable and invasive, consuming one’s thoughts. Through these dynamic relationships,…

Write a critical note on the contrast of women characters used in the Merchant of Venice. Merchant of Venice is one of Williams Shakespeare comedy play or story written somewhere between the 1596 and 1598. This essay will mainly focus on each role of the women characters characteristics in the merchant of Venice. The female roles are consistently more complex than the male ones and even though the protagonists are often the male role, the action is frequently directed by a…

of Hamlet’s father appears. Hamlet followed the requests of his father’s ghost to avenge his death. After the encounter with the apparition, Hamlet’s entire motive in life changed, and his every decision is then lead by revenge. After putting on a play in front of King Claudius that exposed his murdering of Hamlet’s father, Hamlet goes to his mother. He was physical with her and ended up stabbing Polonius to death thinking it was the king. Hamlet was then banished where he discovered the…

Through the various elements of his play Tara the including dialogue, theme, plot, and setting, Mahesh Dattani skilfully highlights the social evils occurring in the contemporary world. This instability stems from the mother who is clearly an irrational person whose behavior, actions and deeds are integral to the theme of the play. The imbalance is nothing but the lack of equilibrium in the family which is in turn due to gender bias, Oedipus complex, guilt and the illogical decisions taken that…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is considered to be one of the most important plays in American literature. Upon its debut in 1959, there was an enormous amount of controversy and influence surrounding the plot and subject matter. A Raisin in the Sun follows the Youngers, an African-American family composed of three generations in one home. The themes of the play include dreams, family, and the realities of life in America. Within the three generations of Youngers, there is significant…

this change is where the text reads, “My wits begin to turn.- / Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold? / I am cold myself” (III. ii. 73-75). The concern he shows for the once worthless fool exemplifies the change Lear undergoes throughout the play. On the other hand, Larry in A Thousand Acres hides behind layers of incest,…

In “Raisin in the Sun”, Walter is held back from achieving his dreams because of obstacles that stand in his way. Walter's dreams dramatically change from the beginning to the end of the book. For example, at the beginning of the book his main dream is to own a liquor store, and by the end, he only wants to help his family. However, many people stand in the way of his dreams. At the start of the book when Walter is fighting for his liquor store, he is hindered by his family and himself. Walter…

Written analysis of Act 3 of the play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Ghosts, written in 1881 by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, was first performed in its original language in Sweden at Helsingborg in 1883, and was translated and performed in Chicago in May, 1882. Ghosts was a play that received many negative criticisms because of its themes of “individual freedom and self-realization by social and institutional forces: by commercial hypocrisy, religious intolerance, political expediency…

This epistolary writing, titled “The hush within turmoil”, is an adaptation of the play “The Tempest”, by William Shakespeare. These are a bunch of diary entries by “Miranda” as seen in the original play “The Tempest”. However, she is given the name “Myra” in this adaptation. This story is based on an Indian modern day backdrop as opposed to the Renaissance setting on a Mediterranean island in the original play. The names of some characters are changed due to the change of the geographical area…

In Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby,” the narrator explicitly expresses the abnormality of Bartleby’s features by illustrating Bartleby to have machine-like characteristics. The narrator establishes the fundamental depictions of Bartleby as soon as they start to interact with each other through their work. The narrator always interacts with Bartleby when he is working, which reveals that Bartleby lives off of his work. Similarly to how Bartleby’s life and soul is figuratively pulled out…