Shakespeare

INTRO GHE BOOK In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare suggests that it is difficult to express feelings for somebody when they don’t know how the other person feels. Beatrice, one of the main characters in the Shakespearean play, was incredibly quick to deny her love for Benedick and start mocking him. In various scenes, she is heard teasing and criticizing him for traits such as his failed wittiness. She even tells him, ¨A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.¨ (Act 1, Scene 1,…

Deception through appearance is a literary device comedies use to entertain their audience and create the plot and additional subplots of the storyline. In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night the character Viola lands on the shores of Illyria after being involved in a shipwreck. Furthermore, she disguises herself as Cesario to serve for the local Duke, Orsino. In Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot Joe and Jerry disguise as women to join an all-female band which is headed to Miami. Through the…

Blame is a funny thing. When something bad happens, everyone has to find a scapegoat, someone to blame for why what just happened happened. There is always blame to be placed. Everyone is going to find someone different to blame, and have a reason for why they are correct. When it comes to the confusion in the woods in Shakespeare’s, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Oberon, not Puck, is responsible. He was driven by jealousy and a personality that forced him to meddle in other people's business.…

Identity is often misinterpreted in common films and novels. These originated from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night about a girl named Viola, who washed ashore and dresses as a man so she can raise money to return to her land. One of the films that is based off the idea of deception through appearance is Some Like it Hot, two men searching for employment in a band dress as girls, cloaking themselves from a mob. Deception in appearance is common throughout these two stories in several ways.…

Within literature, authors utilize the presence of minor characters to illuminate the qualities of the protagonists. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's cynical desires for her husband to obtain the throne resurrect the hidden evil and lust for power within Macbeth. Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to use any force necessary to acquire the throne, whether it be through devious lies or cold-blooded murder. At first, her own brutality contrasts the mercy and loyalty…

Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, fall in love, but their love for each other ends in tragedy. Shakespeare uses certain imagery to enhance the feeling of their love. In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, the use of light and dark imagery is used to add effect and enhance the reader’s image of Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. It not only sets the mood, but also symbolises each other’s love. Shakespeare first uses light and dark imagery during the party scene. This is where Romeo and…

Passion, Desire, Lust, Affection. All of the following mean one thing, Love. The textbook defines Love as an intense feeling of deep affection towards something or someone. One of the greatest playwrights,William Shakespeare, has to this day left the world stunned with his ideas of Love. In the book/play “Much Ado About Nothing,” the main two couples are seen to be in love. Although, only one, couple has portrayed the different forms of Love, that is Beatrice & Benedict who were the first to…

A Daughter have you Lost The Merchant of Venice is a play written by William Shakespeare. It was written between 1596 and 1598. It takes place in Venice, at a time when Jews were discriminated. The antagonist of the play is a Jewish man named Shylock. He has one child in the play, a daughter named Jessica. Shylock comes into the story because of a loan, made by him, to a merchant named Antonio. Antonio and Shylock do not agree with each other, and Jessica helps develop tension between the two.…

Powerful individuals represent themselves in manipulative ways, to create political situations that benefit them. King Henry IV Part 1, a history play by Shakespeare typifies this idea. Context has had an influential role in how shakespeare uses dramatic techniques to shape the characterisation of King Henry, Hal and Hotspur. The desired political situations manufactured by individuals in Henry IV Part 1 all stem from power, personal greed and pride. Those who seek power and obtain it through…

Love is a subject that is widely known. Love plays a prominent role in the play, Much Ado About Nothing, written by the famous William Shakespeare. A question asked through the entire play is, are Hero and Claudio, two of the main lovebirds, really in love? Hero and Claudio are not in love, but are infatuated with each other because they have only known each other for a short time, do not care for each other deeply, and are harsh and quick with emotions regarding each other. According to the…