The Sound and the Fury

Macbeth Pushing Forward In the play “Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is a character who develops and keeps the plot moving forward. He’s driven to become the king no matter how he gets there, either it’s by lying, being selfish, or by killing, also he’s following and believing in the guidance of the mischievous witches. An example as to how Macbeth rises to power is that he has to decide if he wants to follow his thoughts of taking out the king and the next in line of the…

sacrificed greatly for the safety of their own nation while their father had sacrificed other pilots’ safety, directed the guilt towards his own partner and made money. This was a metaphor of the divide between the new American society that were in fury of the wealthy people that made money out of the war while they had to sacrifice a lot of loved ones. The play is aimed at the young generation of Americans. There are many key themes in the play; the main one is the idea of social responsibility…

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is the text I’ve used as my related text in conjunction with my prescribed text, The Tempest by William Shakespeare for the area of study. Both texts texts communicate how discoveries initially impact oneself but increasingly develop to become far-reaching and transformative for greater society. Furthermore, they investigate how confronted about their culpability and provoked to take honourable courses of action. From Prospero’s small initial discovery of…

The Strange Cases of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fiction and Film Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and the film adaptation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003), directed by Maurice Phillips, are accounts of the same story but told differently. Stevenson’s novella, as well as Phillips’ film version, follows a respected English physician and scientist named Dr. Henry Jekyll as he secretly struggles to suppress his dark side, and the experiments he…

Jerome Robbins' suggested the idea of developing a musical based off of the story of Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (originally proposed title: East Side Story, set in the less privileged areas of New York at the concurrence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a gathering with Arthur Laurents took place where another idea emerged -- two teen-age mobs as the conflicting groups, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled…

is trying to make friends with a snowman shows his severe desperateness and also the fact that he can relate with the snowman is just sad. There is an internal rhyme in the quote, “slice of ice”. The assonance in the quote creates a gradual melodic sound because of the way you say it, this adds to the sinister comparison. The comparison of him and the snowman displays his lack of compassion but also his intense loneliness. The snowman also reflects his cold state of mind. Another example of his…

love. Written in 1598, plots based on young women erroneously accused, stories about being brought close to death and to be reunited with their lovers were well-known during the Renaissance era. The accurate definition of “nothing” which has an exact sound as “noting” in which eavesdropping, rumor and gossip are the true meanings behind it; Benedick and Beatrice are deceived into declaring their love for each other, meanwhile, Claudio is…

In the Victorian Era, the stereotypical man was strong-willed, noble, sensitive (to a point), and was not easily misguided when it came to significant decisions. Likewise, women were stereotypically subservient, maternal, and passive. These ideals are warped immensely in his play “Macbeth” as shown in Shakespeare’s main leads. Shakespeare delineates a warped version of Elizabethan stereotypes in his famed play “Macbeth” through the embodiment of the role of a man and how women were portrayed in…

Soliloquies are Shakespeare’s primary tool for expressing inner thoughts and feelings. Many scholars argue that soliloquies are technically not necessary as they can be distracting and irrelevant to the core of the play (Alam). These critics reason that, for the most part, the personal monologues are merely accessories. Hamlet is commonly used to exemplify this. If Hamlet’s soliloquies were replaced or simply removed from the play, the removal would not impair the play beyond comprehension. For…

“By as much as a maiden’s strength, a woman’s warfare, is less than an armed man’s (line 1283-1284).” This statement made by the poet of Beowulf takes on an ironic turn as Grendel’s mother takes on the mighty Beowulf. We can see in current society that women are being looked down on as inferior to their male counterparts. This is not new to us, as women have fought for equal rights for over a century. The poet thinks no differently as he imposes a societal commonality on the female “monster,”…