Venus Williams

The Divine Comedy, composed by Dante Alighieri some place around the year 1308 and initially called The Comedy, is generally viewed as one of the preeminent works of Italian writing. It is an epic poem that comprises of three books: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise, which chronicle (portray) the experiences of Dante the Pilgrim (an imaginary character embodied by Dante himself) in his goes through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Albeit terrifying on a strict level, on a more noteworthy level it…

August Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’ is a master playwright that has been the basis of critical controversy. Written during summer in 1888, the play was censored entirely in Europe during the late Nineteenth Century. The play was believed to deal with situations that were deemed as socially offensive. As much as the play presents a dramatic method which is characterised by an urge to experiment, the innovation Strindberg sought to cultivate were designed with having a social and moral agenda in…

It is surprising but true that audiences or readers would have come to the play knowing the outcome of the battle yet Shakespeare tends to create dramatic suspense and tension. John Summons defines 'dramatic tension' as "how you keep an audience hooked to the story of your play. It is about creating and maintaining an audience's involvement in the 'journey of your play." The playwright achieves this by using dramatic tragedy and twists, structure of the play and the characters and their…

Li Bai wrote “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon” in 774AD when he stayed in Chang’an, which is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. In this time, Li Bai would like to achieve his ambitions. Because of his deceit and jealousy, and because his mistrusted Li Bai, Emperor Tang Ming Huang did not put him in an important position, for the emperor did not trust him. For this reason, Li Bai felt lonely, depressed and discontented. Moreover, one of his best friends, Zhizhang He, returned home several months…

Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell is a story about two twin brothers born in a unfortunate working class with a abandoned mother, named Mrs Johnstone. Mickey and Eddie are the twins. The main theme “seems to be saying that the real world social forces the shape of people’s lives.” The variance between social class effects most of the characters in the play, this expresses the story about family and friendship, which fluctuates the heart of the play and the core behind the social class. Willy…

In the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare, the women are treated poorly, while the men are treated a lot better. In contrast to this message, the men in Othello are untrustworthy, while the women are more trustworthy, however, the women are unable to prove this because of the standard that society forces onto them. Shakespeare uses the message that humans, by nature, have a power imbalance accentuated through gender, as the men in Othello are given more respect and credibility, despite their…

Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s dream. (Goodreads). William Shakespeare was born approximately on April 23rd, 1564. William Shakespeare was also the eldest surviving son to his parents, therefore being the elder brother in the family. William Shakespeare’s younger siblings were Edmund, Gilbert, Richard, Anne and Joan. His relationship towards his younger siblings is unknown and remains a mystery. (Shakespeare’s life.). William Shakespeare’s father…

Jerry and Jerry, the Duality of Jerry Cruncher Light and dark. Inside and outside. Good and bad. These are just a few atoms in a world of contrasts. As one of the most prominent writers in history, Charles Dickens uses a plethora of simple but effective contrasts throughout his writing, particularly in his unique characters, one being Jerry Cruncher. Although a seemingly unimportant character in A Tale of Two Cities, Jerry Cruncher is an all-encompassing figure of duality; he displays…

In the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Stacey Logan is trying to figure out who should be a better friend, TJ, or Jeremy. Stacey should be friends with Jeremy because T.J. lies constantly, doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, and he takes advantage of others. First of all, it can be true that Jeremy may not be trustworthy. But, it is easy to recall that TJ can be caught lying multiple times throughout the book. The text states, “When we got outside. T.J.…

Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911 (Biography.com). He won a Pulitzer Prize for his works, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, is the play that gave Williams his first Pulitzer Prize (Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she…