Ur-Hamlet

Aristotle was a famous disciple of Plato who first defines fine arts and he differs with his teacher Plato in his book of Poetic. His Poetic deals with the principles of Poetic art in general and tragedy. He defines Tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude” (Aristotle, 2017). He also constituent parts of tragedy and they are plot, characters, thought, diction, song and spectacle. The first three plot, characters and thought are the object of…

Analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” “The Trial” by Franz Kafka is a novel of total meaningless living, wandering through court labyrinths and meaningless death. It was written in 1912 and published posthumously in 1925 by his friend Max Brod. Its manuscript was left unfinished and the author left his covenant to his friend to destroy it after his death, therefore, the novel was not intended for printing. However, despite the author's last wish, his friend decided not to obey him and not…

Discovery can encompass the many experiences of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. These discoveries can change an individual’s perspective of human nature and the wider world. The theme of discovery is projected throughout the play, ‘The Tempest’ (1610), by William Shakespeare and the novel, ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ (1999), by Stephen Chbosky. The Tempest, written in the Jacobean era and reflecting aspects and…

The Legend of Medea and Hypsipyle In the legend of Hypsipyle and Medea, Chaucer relates to these two women equally, seeing that they were treated shamefully by the same man, Jason. The narrator again refers his audience to his source: "Lat hym go rede Argonautycon, / For he wole telle a tale long ynogh" (1457-1458). Chaucer reports that Jason married Hypsipyle and had two children with her, what in fact turns out to be a mere fiction. In fact, he leaves her, and Hypsipyle writes him a letter…

Section two ꞉ Binary Oppositions in play ‛ Waiting for Godot’ ꞉ ‛ Waiting for Godot’ is considered as a masterpiece in world literature ∙ It is one of Beckett’s beautiful plays∙ This astonishing play has two acts ∙ This play refers to the ‛ Theater Of The Absurd’∙ The mission of this type of theater is to showed the audience what can happen when human existence has no meaning or purpose ∙ Samuel Beckett is one of the pioneers of showing the binary oppositions in his plays with…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, shows that human ignorance toward their pet peeve may lead them to take the path of faint distortion toward the world if one does not control their mind. The symbolism of the old man’s “eye” haunts the narrator throughout the story by his disgust feelings toward the appearance of the eye. The combination of the anonymous narrator being mentally ill and his fierce hatred toward the old man’s eye, both dragged his life to take the unrighteous road; later…

In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Reeve's Tale and the Miller's Tale are mainly seen as stories for the express purpose of entertaining the reader. While the overall themes of the stories are presented in a much more lewd and irreverent light than many others, the two tales do display a common lesson for its readers to internalize. Throughout the entirety of both stories, the characters that end up most victorious cannot be called honorable, but they can certainly be called clever and…

In William Shakespeare's play, Henry VI, Part 1, he wrote, “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind” (Henry VI, Part 1, William Shakespeare). While originally describing the suspicions of an imprisoned king, the meaning of this quote has adapted and can be applied to many situations in storytelling today. In The Haunting of Hill House, Eleanor’s mind is heavy with the guilt of her past, and leads her to suspicion and paranoia. Eleanor is a broken woman, brought up in a dysfunctional family and…

The Man of Honor and Courage “More weight!” (Miller 1269). This statement made by Giles Corey shows how his character is already defined. Arthur Miller introduced many characters in the play The Crucible. The one character who really stood out was Giles Corey. In the play he is portrayed as a silly old man at first, but later he changes into a man who cares for his family’s wellbeing and he would die for his family’s honor. In Act 1, Giles was introduced as a silly old man…

Like all sensible ghost stories, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House sets a lure for its protagonist. within the classic version of the shape, as established by British author M.R. James, the hero may be a gentleman of gently inquiring bent: a scholar, a collector or antiquarian. What lures him into the neighborhood of the ghost is commonly intellectual curiosity and infrequently greed; what attracts the ghost's wrath or malevolence is that the hero's tendency to intervene, to open the…