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The women in Macbeth are presented by Shakespeare to be powerful and ambitious which was unlike the typical views during Jacobean times. The playwright portrays Lady Macbeth and the witches to be highly influential to male characters in the play, which again contrasts the contemporary views to that time. Their ambition and power are demonstrated through the perversion of nature. This highlights the evil and immoral side, they possess. Shakespeare, however, presented Lady Macbeth and the witches…

Women are considered as subservient to men during the history. Even when a powerful woman in England, who is Elizabeth I, controlled England from 1558 to 1603, women were still treated as subordinate to men. Shakespeare is a poet and playwright who reflects the status of women in the Elizabethan era in his works. The tragic play Hamlet is one of the most important plays written by Shakespeare in the Middle Ages and which has resonated greatly by the public and critics throughout the ages. This…

Introduction There are various types of love portrayed in the writings of William Shakespeare in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are several forms of love depicted in the play, including parental love, forced love, romantic love, as well as jealousy to name a few. Early in the play, the character Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134), this theme carries through the remaining scenes of the play as various sets of characters undergo a series of trials…

Starting off, they each had a distinctive understanding of human nature from one another. To Rousseau, humans in primitive times were "noble savages" and it is "civilization" that turned man into a "beast". Conversely, Hobbes believed that being "civilized" is a positive trait and being uncivilized or a "savage" is bad. Concerning human nature, Rousseau theorized that humans were innately good and generous, before being corrupted by the vices of civilization. Human life was most likely peaceful…

Edmund is perhaps the most conniving and clever character in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Armed with the belief that the natural world is injustice, Edmund sets out to bring down the natural order and replace it with his own immorality, which he does not truly realize. In his plot to become the next heir and possible ruler of the kingdom, Edmund puts himself into a complex situation where he has professed love for both sisters, but also has commitments to his mission of eliminating Lear and Cordelia…

Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables has accomplished what many novels seek to accomplish but fail to do it; it has become a timeless classic. Les Miserables has the same impactful message that applies still to this day. Today’s masses have seen an undiluted version of Les Miserables despite the play adaptations, over a hundred translations and a major movie adaptation. This novel presents the daily struggles of the lower class of french society during the Napoleonic Age through a different lens.…

Orson Welles' version of “Macbeth” was his first attempt of creating a cinematic adaptation of a Shakespearean play and it turned out to be a very expressionist and visually creative version. The movie was produced quickly and cheaply and the play is set within a wasteland, surrounded by nothing but stones and fog, where we can only see the features of the play's characters, who shout their tormented speeches while being soaked into hell, which awaits them for their evil deeds. Welles…

The protagonist of Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, commits a hideous crime: he ruthlessly kills an old moneylender, Alyona Ivanovna, and her sister Lizaveta. Alongside this event, two other stories unravel: the destiny of Sonya Marmeladov and, towards the end, that of Svidrigajlov. Sonya and Svidrigajlov constitute two complex and well-developed characters, carrying their own obstinate convictions, which will inevitably crash with those of the hero of the novel. Sonya will lead Raskolnikov…

“The poems show love to be a complex and powerful emotion.” Discuss the ways in which the poets have presented the different aspects of love in the poems you have studied. The poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps…

In William Shakespeare’s well known play Hamlet , there are several acts of violence that often keep the readers on their toes constantly wondering what will happen next. It all begins with the death of King Hamlet and comes to an end with no royal family in control of the castle, Elsinore, in Denmark. Each character has their own unique motive for self gain throughout the play, but Hamlet has a strong drive for the dangerous game of revenge. Hamlet wants to earn justice for his father who had…