William Clark

"Wife" is a poem written by Marra PL. Lanot and was published in 1998. The film of Director Jun Robles Lana "Barber's Tales (Mga Kuwentong Barbero)" is an entry for the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival where Eugene Domingo won the Best Actress Award. The two literary works are both set in a society dominated by men, where women are confined and marginalized. Also, their main characters are both women who are pressured by the society's expectations of a wife. Poems and films convey their…

Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

William Wordsworth is an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850, he was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwest of England, he is considered as one of the greatest poet in the romantic era, which is also called the Romanticism, He was an early leader of it, Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, it emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life. The…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne displays how one sin can ruin the lives of many. His purpose is to show how holding in a sin and not being truthful can haunt you and lead to your end. Hawthorne uses several rhetorical device to convey this message, including: antithesis, anaphora, and metaphor. Throughout the text, antithesis is commonly used, especially comparing life and death. For example, Dimmesdale states “Many, many poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only…

In his play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo, a playwright and left-wing activist, uses comic elements to narrate the story of the suspicious death of a railwayman and anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli. Although the details of the case have been twisted by Fo, this farce is successful in provoking thought in the minds of the audience. Pinelli’s name is not present in the dialogues, but the prologue states that the play is a reconstruction of the case. As per the police report the anarchist…

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare began and ended with death, but the story continues to live on. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1500’s and showed how relationships worked back then and how Shakespeare saw relationships. It is important to use lenses because, “The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.” (McGinn research, via Tyson, Richart). The relationship lense is looking at the different types of relationships and see how they…

Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia are all very similar and different stories. Each show a story of love, beauty, and tragedy. Their differences are what make each tale stand out. Their genres are very impactful on each story. Each tale shows that love is a powerful force that can be deadly at times. The three stories are similar in many ways. They all follow a similar plot and all have a similar theme of the dangers of love. Two young lovers meet, but…

The dramatist has divided the play Bravely Fought the Queen in three acts with titles for each. The title of the first act is ‘The Women ‘deals with the women characters in the play who are Baa, a widow and the mother of Jitin and Nitin, Dolly, wife of Jiten, Alka, wife of Nitin, Daksha, daughter of Dolly and Jiten, Lalita, wife of Sridhar, an employee in Nitin and Jitin’s advertising agency. Act II is titled as ‘The Men’ which is dominated by men characters of the play as Jitin, Baa’s elder…

one purpose which can be to mislead another individual in order to gain knowledge, to get revenge, or to reveal a plan unknown to the public eye and keeping it that way for the dutiful well-being of the Kingdom of Denmark. In the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare, deception develops into the character trait that initiates the actions, heartbreak, and revenge driving this play. This attribute held by Hamlet is the leading cause of this same flaw development in Ophelia, King Claudius, and many…

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most well known play from all of william shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1595 and now their has been many things that the movies have in common and they are also very different. One big difference would be how the characters are portrayed in each of the movies since shakespeare never included stage directions and shakespeare also did not give the actors the whole script but only some of the actors lines so that they could make the play more…