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    Shakespeare created this play during the Elizabethan era, and was highly influenced by ‘The Great Chain of Being’, which the social structure of the time. This play revolves around a noble that soon changes after he meets three witches on his way home from a battle and they tell him of three prophecies, which spark his interest and causes worry when they start coming true. These prophecies start to occupy his mind and causes his ambition to increase drastically. This new character not only…

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    Iago’s Motive Nowadays, manipulation and dishonesty started to be a serious problem in our society to strive for specific goals like higher positions, money and other interests. Othello is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare in 1603. It is about a story of a black, moor general in the Vietnam army, called Othello. He marries a gorgeous woman called Desdemona. His soldier Iago is interested in him and so jealous about his life, so he attempts to cripple it. He will accomplish his goal…

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    Shakespeare’s plays are known to display countless themes, some of which manifest through the body of the works as a whole. There is a dichotomy between appearance and reality in Shakespearean works. The idea that people or things in the world are often not what they seem, falls at the heart of all his plays. The false appearances of the characters often lead to the climax. The reality is the truth of what exists, but the appearance is merely what someone makes something look like. There are…

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    Discrimination In Macbeth

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    In the play, Shakespeare creates a complex character in Macbeth that somewhat encourages us to with him. Macbeth’s emotions and reactions are seen to fluctuate throughout the play as he constantly goes through dramatic series of events. In Act 1 Scene 7, Lady Macbeth victimises and attacks as Macbeth, causing him to suffer from manipulation and verbal abuse. In this way, the audience can see that ultimately she is the fundamental root of the following events and Macbeth is solely being loyal to…

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    Cultural criticism is exploring or examining the relationship of dominant role based on ethnicity, and sexual identity of person, also a great understanding of yourself. Historical is basically know the background story before you making assumptions off the text, and to better understand text lookup time period close to the time like 1600’s for Othello by William Shakespeare. To sum up the whole play Othello, in act one Othello is Accused of using black magic, witchcraft, and etc on Desdemona…

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    In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, characters use different tactics in order to use others to their benefit. A victim of severe manipulation in the play, is Macbeth. Macbeth’s naïve nature at the beginning of the play allows other characters in the play to use him to their advantage. Lady Macbeth uses him as her front man in order for her to become queen. She guides him through the murders of his closest friends to make the process of her becoming queen faster. The witches also contribute to…

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    Abstract: Girish Karnad has given the traditional tale a new meaning and significance highly relevant in the context of life today. He seems to have used myth with a view to expose the absurdity of life with all its elemental passions and conflicts, and also to show man’s eternal struggle to achieve perfection. Karnad, in his plays, tries to evolve a symbolic form out of tension between the archetypal and mythic experience and a living response to life and its values. The new dimension and…

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    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…

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    Macbeth Research Paper Macbeth was a victim of his wife and the witches,because he did not have a mind of his own. This sentence and thesis repetitive Lady Macbeth found the letter Macbeth wrote and used that and manipulation to persuade him to kill Duncan. The witches helped in the persuasion of Macbeth by telling him he would be king Lady Macbeth’s ambition got in the way and her morals were swayed. Macbeth is a victim of manipulation by his ambitious and power hungry wife. Lady Macbeth…

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    Nosferatu Analysis

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    Shadow of the Vampire portrays the adaptation of Nosferatu especially the intentions dedication of the director, Murnau. Murnau requires acting methods that are extreme and sometimes deadly in order to achieve an immortal film, one that will be remembered and live forever. The physical film and camera are symbols of immortality that will kill the characters, like a vampire. The beginning of the film, Shadow of the Vampire, is the portrayal of the creation of the famous horror movie, Nosferatu,…

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