Shakespeare in Love

someone you supposedly loved? Would you kill? When it comes to love anything can happen. We all make mistakes it's our human instinct, but can a little crush turn into something brutal and cruel? Or is love completely harmless and innocent? Well in Romeo and Juliet the author William Shakespeare, has the audience see how love could be romantic but how it could also end in a catastrophe. Shakespeare presents a contradiction that love is remarkable and beautiful when there are no obstacles and…

think of love do you think of inexplicable joy? Do you automatically relate a parent’s love to over exaggerated punishment? Or do you think of pain when you think of love? And correlate parental love with the ultimate best choice? Pain is not often thought of first when hearing about the passionate love some feel towards their partners. Similarly, a parent’s love for their child can frequently be mistaken for overdone punishments. However, in texts such as Romeo and Juliet by William…

Feelings are hard to deal with in life Love has many different types of feelings. Shakespeare displayed different love stories in each of the four plots throughout “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. As Helena loved a man that loved a different woman, this type of love is hard for a person to manage their feelings. Forced love was how King Theseus’ love was to Hippolyta. Finally, romantic love was how Hermia felt about Lysander, Hermia was willing to disobey the Athens law in which her father told…

Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows many examples of the main theme, forbidden love. In this story two feuding families, the Montagues and Capulets, each have a child who falls in love with the other. The young Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague meet and fall in love at first sight. They know they cannot be together because of their names, and that is how the main theme, forbidden love, comes about. Act 1 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet is right after they met each other and find out each…

William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright. Some of his plays are Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale. Also one of Shakespeare’s play is Twelfth Night, or What You Will which is a comedy written around they year 1601 and consists of five acts. According to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night for his “all-male company” (Shakespeare 1187). In which during Shakespeare’s time plays were performed by men acting both the female and…

Shakespeare demonstrates this as initially King Lear proclaims his complete love towards Cordelia where he wants to give her a larger share of the kingdom ‘’A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak (1:1:86). The use of interrogative in the complex sentence suggest conflict as Lear questions Cordelia to express her love towards him. Therefore, Lear instantly creates tension amongst the sisters with the love contest. Additionally, Shakespeare uses possessive pronoun ‘’your’’…

delusion. If Proteus’ actions were shaped by external forces – specifically the irresistible and transformative power of love – then perhaps he would be less culpable for his shifting loyalties and therefore as easily redeemable as the ending would imply. But both William Carroll in “Ovid, Rape, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and William Scott in “Proteus in Spenser and Shakespeare: The Lover’s Identity” recognize that the conflict is inherent to Proteus’ very characterization. Scott claims…

ancient times, females were expected to respect and listen to the men around them, but Hermia does the opposite when she is told she cannot marry who she loves. ¨In himself he is. But in this kind, wanting your father´s voice, the other must be held the worthier.¨ (Shakespeare 1.1.54-55) ¨I would my father looked but with my eyes¨ (Shakespeare 1.1.56) This conversation shows that even when the Duke is…

Shakespeare, like any other writer, has a few key themes that he prefers to incorporate within many of his literary works. One play that he has weaved the theme of love in, is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Though this story is a bit light hearted than most of Shakespeare’s works, it still has a problematic couple that love each other passionately. Something that I have noticed about Shakespeare is that he enjoys creating characters that are imperfect by making them a captive to human emotion, in…

of love influences people to make rash and impulsive decisions. The affections that are created by these decisions might feel satisfying, but the reactions towards the decisions can seem unreasonable. There are benefits and disadvantages when it comes to being in love. The affections that one feels might be satisfying, but the reactions towards these affections can seem unreasonable. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night explores the idea about people performing irrational actions when in love. In…