Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 film directed by John Madden with an Oscar-winning score by Stephen Warbeck. The movie deals with William Shakespeare struggling to write a new comedic play in 16th century London, until he comes across a noblewoman Viola who he falls in love with and also becomes his inspiration in writing. The scene analyzed is Viola and William’s first encounter at her house. And The Social Network is a 2010 film directed by David Fincher also with an Oscar-winning score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It chronicles the creation of the social media site Facebook starting from 2003, and complications that Mark Zuckerberg has to deal with, due to lawsuits of ownership from the Winklevoss twins and co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin. The specific scene analyzed is the deposition questioning of Mark and Eduardo and the meeting with Sean Parker. Despite the heavy differences in geographical settings and historical time between these movies, the composers still aim to provide music that sets up the tone between characters who have newly met with one another, and signals a complex relationship for the rest of each movie. The Shakespeare in Love scene underscores physical actions, and part of the scenes…

and the film Shakespeare in Love deal with the complexities of gender and sexuality. Even though the play Twelfth Night was published nearly four hundred years before Shakespeare in Love was released, Shakespeare’s play represents a more modern outlook on gender. Both materials involve cross-dressing, but cross-dressing is more of a feature in Shakespeare in Love, while Twelfth Night actually delves into the complexities of what it means to be either male or female. My belief is that one’s…

Othello, written by William Shakespeare, is a classic play that toys with the emotions of both the characters within the play and the audience members. This tragedy centers around Othello, a war hero turned general, and the way his decisions affect the world around him. Othello’s assistant, Iago, schemes against Cassio, the newly appointed and fired lieutenant, by feeding lies to Othello. Iago tells Othello that Othello’s new wife, Desdemona, is cheating with Cassio. Act III provides Othello’s…

Love does not have any clear definition, everyone has a different perspective about love. The concept of love is totally different to Carver and Shakespeare, as they both lived in different eras. Shakespeare praises the love and says that the relationship is based on trust and understanding. He even says that there won't be any alteration till they die, whereas, Carver on other hand is a modern writer. Carver thinks that people change, they marry and get divorced even after having children.…

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” and neither is it near perfect. Love is stupidity with a smile, blind trickery, and spontaneous thoughts (1.1.134). Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he portrays the theme of love through his characters as erratic, blind, and foolish. Shakespeare was not the slightest bit modest when illustrating how inconsistent love is. By speaking through his characters, Hermia and Lysander, Shakespeare demonstrates how…

What is love? Is it just a word, is a color or is it a connection that draws two lives together. If so where can we find it better yet why does it always seem to find us? That 's the question that runs through most people minds when they can’t explain this mysterious feeling that they have for a certain someone that leads them to sometimes make decisions based on their emotions. In Act 1 Scene 1 page 10 of the scene play Romeo and Juliet we are drawn into a conversation based on Romeo’s…

Within the extract Shakespeare presents the love between Othello and Desdemona, both describing their eternal love for each other as Desdemona argues to travel with Othello to Cyprus and their struggle for being accepted as a couple by others which will be introduced in this essay. In The extract Desdemona contends her right to accompany Othello on his trip to Cyprus, to fight the Turkish in war emphasising how much she has transformed her life to be with Othello “That I did love the Moor to…

One of the most time honored pieces of literature is the tale of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. The entire story is based around two young lovers but was it really love that they feel or is it something else? Love is a mystical word because it is a noun that is used to describe itself. Everyone experiences and has felt it so why is it so hard to define if every human knows what it is? There are so many components that all come together to form a different feeling each time.…

Aristotle once said, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” I am writing about Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. I picked this poem because of the images the speaker creates in the poem with the lighthouse, storms, boat, and youth. Personally, these images reflect exactly how love is and should be for everyone, and that is exactly what the speaker is trying to convey to the reader. In this essay, I will discuss each of these images, how they help define love and give my…

True Love Defeated Othello, by William Shakespeare, illustrates Othello and Desdemona’s love and the tragedy behind it. They oppose to the will of Desdemona’s father and get married. However, Iago’s tricks leads Othello to murder Desdemona. Shakespeare points out that although Othello and Desdemona belong to different social classes, have different backgrounds and races, they still hold true love between each other. Othello and Desdemona, with different racial backgrounds, live in a time that…