Ur-Hamlet

For centuries, authors and playwrights have picked apart the mechanisms and behaviors of the ruling class with a dispassionate dignity--the predecessors to modern-day satire and humor. As the time passed, the material morphed into valid criticisms of the general populace of the ever changing world; the words of Shakespeare gave way to those of Orwell in his classic 1984. In 2015, author Yuri Herrera published a short story called “The Objects,” in which he recognizes the faults of human nature…

Henrik Ibsen is one of the most respected literary writers. He is known for producing of classic texts which go along very well with his audience. One of his several texts is, “Doll’s House.” Doll’s House opens on Christmas Eve (Otten). One character named Nora Helmer enters her room which is well furnished and it acts as the setting of the entire play. She comes with several packages. Her husband is named Torvald Helmer and he comes out of his study when he hears her arrive. He is happy as he…

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…

Anyone who is familiar with famed writer William Shakespeare can easily list some of his most famous plays, such as the tragedies Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. Many casual readers do not recognize his sonnets, except for perhaps his eighteenth, which describes a lover who is compared to a beautiful summer day. The majority of his sonnets are fairly unknown to many people, so they miss the part of his writing that offers a more personal glance into his life and opinions. In his sonnets,…

Mon mai longe liues wene, Ac ofte him lieth the wrench. Feir weder turneth ofte into reine And wunderliche hit maketh his blench. Tharuore mon, thu the bi-thench, Al schal falewi thi grene, Weilawei, nis king ne quene, That ne schal drinche of deathes drench. Mon, er thu falle of thi bench, Thine sunne thu aquench. (Lisle, “The Three Living and The Three Dead”) Having revised the concept of childhood from the Antique period up to the later Middle Ages, with special attention paid to the…

Thornton Wilder from classical era , that use a lot of language and poetry. From the success, he had the honour that is great for play staging especially in dialogue usage as a speech way. According to study Paris, in interview wilder states theatre as art that is largest it is walk most immediate in field of arts and art is part that can be shared with between one another. Theatre is glory because it study a lot imagination, style reflect self, rhythm dialect in speech. Throughout the play, the…

Foolish or Honorable? Chris McCandless’s journey outlined by the novel Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer supports that it is simple and indisputable to apprehend that McCandless was not a heroic figure, just one persuaded by inaccurate decisions. McCandless was not your average student, he had a very bright future ahead of him graduating with high honors from one of the country's most prestigious universities; Emory University, however, threw it all down the drain when he took an everlasting…

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare reveals society's views on money, women, and family status which cause characters to react to situations negatively. Romeo and Juliet is set during the Elizabethan period, when men controlled the actions of their wives and daughters. Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, believes it is his duty, because of the patriarchal society, to make sure Juliet obeys him and is married. Juliet does not want to be married to Paris despite her father thinking the marriage will be the…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, Chillingworth is guilty of Dimmesdale’s death. For one he tries to poison Dimmesdale with some medicine, he makes him suffer mentally, and he tortures him for it all and tries to make him feel guilty for all that he’s done. Chillingworth believes that Dimmesdale was the father of Pearl, Prynne’s baby after he found out that she got pregnant from Dimmesdale. Chillingworth came to visit Hester, only to find out she was in prison for committing…

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a story about the folly of man-kind in the dangers of technological innovation without thought for repercussions. The follies arrogance, ignorance, and negligence find their way into the plot, and affect the outcomes of the novel. To begin, Frankenstein shows the folly arrogance. Upon hearing that the monster would be with him on his wedding night, Frankenstein immediately pitied Elizabeth and assumed she would grieve over his death, when really the…