William Berkeley

William Shakespeare once wrote “All the World’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.” Although those words were written for a comedy “As You Like It” it is still holds meaning in relation to Hamlet. Hamlet is about power, intrigue, some romance, and grief. It shows the strength and folly of the human spirt. As Hamlet is a play, it is meant to be seen. While there is much benefit that can be derived from reading a Shakespearian play, nothing compares to watching it performed. A…

Four Major Themes of the Romantic Period in Europe During the romanticism, writers, poets and free spirited humans created four major themes of their writing. The four major themes of Romanticism are emotion and imagination, nature, and social class. Romantic writers were influenced greatly by the evolving and changing world around them. During 1889 they were striving to remember nature and its impact on the world as they experienced the industrial revolution in Europe and the moving of…

the human race or causing its destruction. The argument encompasses many aspects and categories. Poetry and other works of literature have attempted to tackle these questions and also leave their views on which side they fall. William Shakespeare, William Blake and William Wordsworth all fall under the category of praising modernity, and support the push into the new and modern. However, they show this in different ways and specific subcategories. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare…

Frankenstein, also known as the Modern Prometheus, is a story begins with captain finding this man dying of hypothermia on a dog sled, brought him on his ship and while the man was dying, he told the captain his life story. His story was about himself, a scientist, who was struck with grief when his mother died that he believed he could bring back the deceased by using electricity. His first trial and error he used his dog after it had been hit by a carriage, it lived for a short period and then…

Mya Gordon Mr. Harragian English 9 (Essay) 15 May 2016 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is classified as one of the most popular and best-selling stories worldwide. According to Www.ancient-orgins.net, “William Shakespeare 's world renowned Romeo and Juliet (written sometime between 1591 and 1595) stands in the historical record as one of the greatest love stories ever written...it is a lot of differences on a story told many times from the fourteen hundreds onwards…borrowed from poets…

of all mankind and corrupts the finest. Either society kills to gain the upper hand or they get killed. Power knows how to manipulate mankind and gain dominance over it. Power makes society do atrocious things. In the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the island sees survivors from a plane crash so dreadful that no one would have been alive, but miraculously a group of young cadets survives. One of the survivors, Ralph, becomes the first leader of the group and makes the precedents…

A tale so old, studied so often, yet greatly misunderstood by the masses. This is the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This four hundred year old play has been adapted countless times, yet society has failed to understand this amazing literature. Modern culture has accepted the story of Romeo and Juliet as the perfect example of true love, but the truth is far from it. The play is in fact, a tragedy caused by lust and at most, immature hormonal driven love. The oddity would be Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo…

studying and comparing the positive notion of creation and the detrimental effect destruction has on an individuals being we begin to comprehend the complicated and dichotomous nature of human consciousness. William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan drama Macbeth (1606) and the Romantic poems of William Blake ‘London’ (1794) and ‘Human Abstract’ (1794) each validate the convoluted emotions of love and betrayal whilst exploring their different influences due to their cultural context. If an individual…

William Faulkner the author of Barn Burning and other literature works, identified key aspects of creating good literature in his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. The writer should include love, honor , pity, pride, compassion and sacrifice ; lastly, the writer must include the heart in conflict. Faulkner’s Barn Burning was about a boy name Sarty, struggling to deal with his father Abner. Abner a very cold, stiff man commits crimes, his most recent one burning a barn. Sarty has to decide whether…

In “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, the Wingfield family is a very broken one. The Wingfield family represents the average family living in St. Louis at the time of 1937. They consisted of the mother, Amanda, the older daughter, Laura, the younger son, Tom, and the nameless father. In the beginning of the play the father is absent and represented by a picture on the wall. He would “stay out late” and drink and one day he never came back (940). The reader gets a feeling that the…