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    ` Tis not the stars that hold our destinies but in ourselves … William Shakespeare Murder and depression! that is pretty much William Shakespeare's play macbeth in a poetic nutshell. But why is that oh “great person typing this story”, well you may not be asking, let me tell you. Macbeth was a play written by the great writer William Shakespeare during the 1500s when plays were live and not on the screen being assisted by computers(…

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    Twelfth Night Controversy

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    The works of William Shakespeare are regarded as some of the greatest English literature of all time. Writing colorful plays Shakespeare grabs the attention of anyone reading or watching. Dating back to the 17th century Shakespeare’s plays have influenced modern society in varied ways. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is shown to have influenced society by its recent film modernized adaptation. Despite the fact that Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare has been banned it deserves to be analyzed in…

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    Related Things can be Different Shakespeare wrote 34 whole plays, plus 154 sonnets, and one of his most well known is a romance named “Much Ado About Nothing”. “Much Ado About Nothing” is about a town called Messina having the pleasure of the royal army coming by on their way back from war. As they are there, however, love blossoms between two couples, Hero and Claudio, and Beatrice and Benedick. Meanwhile, mischievous plans are created by the illegitimate Don John, who is a foil to his brother…

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    In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. William uses poetic language to compliment the events that take place during the play. His way of writing helps the play flow as you read or perform it so you can really understand what is happening in it. A few ways he does this is with the use of rhyming and changing up the pace during different parts of the play.When you read certain lines you feel more power from some words other than others to let them stand out. This play is about…

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    The Renaissance was an era in which the cultures of the arts flourished. Various poets such as William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney and Thomas Watt, made works of arts that are still talked about to this very day. One art in particular, the sonnet, was a literary art form that gave beautiful poems a rich and powerful expressions for the readers to interpret. Many of these sonnets would be formed into sequences. A sequence in which a collection of sonnets formed to create some kind of unified work…

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    Beatrice Character Foil

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    the book would lack quality and meaning. Any story can have characters, but what makes it stand out is when the character’s are different, and that is why Beatrice and Hero are the perfect character foil. The play, ”Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, starts with a group of soldiers visiting a small town in Italy, and in that group of soldiers lie Claudio and Benedick, the lovers of Hero and Beatrice. Right when Claudio sees Hero, he falls madly in love with her. After some slight…

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    Character foils are present in almost any book, and Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, is no exception. This book focuses mainly on this huge situation that consists of a chain of events that could’ve been avoided completely if approached in an entirely different manner. Many of the characters are on a quest to find love, including Benedick and Beatrice. The two, at the beginning of the play, had a burning hatred for the other, until a friend of Benedick’s…

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    of paranormal characters such as witches, ghosts and other entities. Which is why, Shakespeare incorporates many elements when writing the play “Macbeth”; one of those elements includes supernatural which is a component that William Shakespeare uses to evoke an essence of nefarious environment and to demonstrate the inability of humans to control their destiny. In the play, “Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare, paranormal elements are an essential factor in the development of play in order…

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    powerful thing. In his play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare expresses how the role of fate can change anything. Shakespeare uses many examples of fate in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. For example, Romeo killing Tybalt after Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend. The fate of Romeo and Juliet was expressed in the prologue of the play. The play stated, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,” (Shakespeare, Prologue. 6). The duel between Romeo, Tybalt, and…

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    children what do they think of? Do they think of the smiles and the laughter, or do they think of the screaming and crying. The opinions on types of children vary from people with their own experiences. In the Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, certain aspects of children are lingered throughout the story. The use of children is not the most prominent throughout Macbeth, but is the most known if the reader chooses to dig for the clues and examples. Shakespeare’s symbolism with…

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