Revenge play

of eight kings with Banquo at the end). The witches do not force anything upon him within the scene; Macbeth only extrapolates from the information that he will kill Macduff’s family to stop the prophecy. The death of his family leads Macduff to revenge and eventually him beheading Macbeth as a man born of C-section. This entire plotline is amazing in how interconnected the acts are. If Macbeth did not kill Macduff’s family, there is a possibility that Macduff would not have purposefully…

girls’ basketball team would have hoped for. On January 16, the Lady Pioneers faced Marion Harding for the second time this season. After the Pioneers defeated Harding by only six points in their first matchup, the girls of Harding were looking for revenge. After a very hard fought battle, that’s exactly what they got. Marion Harding came out on top with a final score of 50 to 52. The next challenge the Lady Pioneers faced was the Panthers of Hilliard Darby. To say the Panthers had an…

Shakespeare was a very difficult task, which was very stimulating to accomplish at an adequate level, yet taking into account the complexity of the play, the extraordinary composition and the situation of history inside the play . Understanding the play, only by reading it, was a hard mission, without consulting different critical analysis of the play, various books, essays, article, written by important authors, whose opinions and ideas made this novel pretty discussed. A fact that…

William Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. In this play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Don John portrays different and opposite character traits of Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing is a play about intertwined romantic relationships between Leonato and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick in which other characters, such as Don John, use deceptive tactics to mislead others. Don John and Don Pedro help illuminate in the play that deception can be used to hurt…

In Theodore Lidz’s critical article “Hamlet’s Precarious Emotional Balance”, Lidz analyzes the mental state and indecision of the character Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet. Lidz begins by explaining how by the second act, the audience must rely on the reports of people spying on Hamlet to learn of his current mental state. He then goes on to reason why Hamlet may have greeted Ophelia in such a disheveled fashion in act II, suggesting Hamlet may have wanted to create the idea…

confident. The good thing is that his doctor told him he could play sports but the bad news is that he will have to very careful while playing. It’s hard to watch yourself when you’re playing because you’re not focused on nothing but winning the game.…

Hamlet, not having a murderous disposition, requires concrete, tangible evidence and motivation before he can exact his father’s revenge on Claudius. Thus, Hamlet uses his act of insanity to manipulate Claudius into confirming his guilt, giving Hamlet a reason to take action. Over the course of the play, the reader learns that Hamlet’s ambition is superseded by his need to analyse every aspect of a situation. This idea is perpetuated when Hamlet is presented with…

tone of the play. Titus’ speech in act three creates a gloomy, tragic tone, which is part of a tragic play’s characteristics: the hero experiencing anagnorisis. Marcus’ speech in act five however brings the tone back to the same aggressive, violent tone at the beginning of the play and strays from the typical structure of a tragedy. Therefore, these two passages show that Titus Andronicus should not be read as a tragedy but rather as a comedy or a dramatic commentary on violence and revenge,…

Eyebrows might be raised at the Royal Court staging a play by its own press officer. However, Anoushka Warden’s 75-minute monologue, beautifully performed by Patsy Ferran, stands on its own two feet as a breathtakingly candid account of a teenager’s wounded fury at her mother’s surrender to a spiritual cult. Billed as “an unreliable version of a true story filtered through a hazy memory and vivid imagination”, it runs out of steam towards the end but is sustained by its mix of wit and anger.…

Everyone sees the play Hamlet as this great tragedy and a quest for revenge, and it is one, but it’s also filled with so much deception. The characters lie to each other, they spy and create plans to find out information. Their use of hidden yet obvious deception just goes to show how rotton human beings can be with each other and how easily they can turn on one another to further themselves to get what they want. It eventually shows that by using all your energy towards a plan of revenge, can…