William Hurt

intresting question, is man inherently good or evil? This is a question that has puzzled people throughout humanity and whom could many not determine an actual answer to.Many base their opinion on personal or world wide events.Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about young British boys who become stuck on an inhabited island after plane crashing.At first the educated boys make regualtions and rules for the tribe which later turn into complete chaos.The novel shows boys who gradually…

revealed by using descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets. Last year I read many books that use indirect and direct characterization. I would say that some of the most drawn characterizations where in the play Romeo and Juliet, which was written by William Shakespeare. We find indirect and direct characterization in many…

The famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two ill-fated lovers, Romeo and Juliet, from two feuding families. In Friar Lawrence’s soliloquy, he expresses that there is nothing on Earth that is so evil that it does not provide the earth with some special quality. This means that everyone, no matter what, will always have some sort of evil and good in them, but depends on what situation that they’re in, where they will show that evil or good. Through Romeo,…

“When sorrow come, they come not single spies, but in battalions”(William Shakespeare). This quote is used by Claudius in Shakespeare's’ play Hamlet. Claudius is saying when something bad occurs it doesn’t happen alone. While many other bad things occur it simultaneously contributes to the tragedy we as humans go through. Depression and anxiety are disorders that have long lasting effects when not treated. Teens suffer heavily from depression and anxiety, which has a lot of negative effects on…

Nobody thinks that it will happen to them, yet many people will find themselves as the victim of some type of criminal deception within the next year. According to the American Psychological Association, an estimate of 30 million Americans become the victims of fraud each year, whether that be by losing their retirement savings to a deceitful financial advisor or falling for an internet scam (Miller). Not all the world’s crooked people use their clever trickery with the intent for financial gain…

Over the weekend, I had a lot of free time. It just so happened that an old (very old) friend of mine did as well. He goes by the name William Shakespeare, you might have heard of him before. When talking to Shakespeare, I realized that in the modern day high school, there are many similarities that compare well to his play, Othello. We found a common situation that occurs in the present day. This situation involves jealousy. On the quad, a common place for spending time and relaxing in-between…

It allows them to create an image in the readers’ minds. Imagery helps the readers and audience visualize scenes and emotions. Its easier for people to understand the thought that the writer is spreading through visuals. The brilliant playwright William Shakespeare has skillfully used that tool in many of his plays. He used it through his infamous play Macbeth generously. Macbeth was written in the Elizabethan era, and the people who came to see it understood Shakespearean language. However, to…

than males on the Great Chain of Being that categorized everything in existence in order of closeness to God. They were seen as creatures who were more inclined to sin, to seduce men, and overall needed to be looked after. Therefore, in Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the women in the play are subject to this treatment as well, especially Gertrude, the newly married Queen of Denmark. With her husband’s recent death, her innocence is brought into question; however, while she likely…

In this complex play written by William Shakespeare, The Tempest is about Prospero, a sorcerer and the rightful Duke of Milan, lives on an island with his daughter, Miranda. Prospero’s brother, Antonio took over his throne and set Prospero and Miranda adrift, and they eventually found themselves washed ashore on the island. Prospero summons a storm to wreck a ship bearing his old enemies near the island, and punishes Antonio and Alonso in multiple ways. Finally, Prospero confronts his brother…

Ralph always has the boys’ best interests at heart. He never puts himself before them and always strives to make them happy. He even tried to make Jack happy by making him in charge of his choir who later on become the hunters of the island. “‘Jack is in charge of the choir. They can be-what do you want them to be?’ ‘Hunters '" (Golding 19). Ralph could immediately sense at the beginning of the novel that Jack would be some trouble, which he turns out to be. He senses that Jack will continuously…