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William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy, ‘Othello’, resonates the damnation and inevitable dissolution of man in the face of compunction, facades, hubris and unbridled jealousy; extremities which foster the machinations of our humanity-the igniter of one’s hamartia. Through the use of dramatic irony, symbolism and soliloquies, Shakespeare journeys one through the complexities and subtleties of the human condition; accentuating the eponymous hero’s inexorable fall from grace which is centred on…

William Shakespeare was well known for the main characters of his plays using their tragic flaws to create their own downfall. In this play, we see a different kind of tragic hero. Macbeth is pushed by his mentally unstable wife to commit the murder of the beloved King Duncan, and even though Macbeth has always been known as a great warrior, he can’t use these skills for evil no matter how much he craves power. Before the idea of power was brought to him, Macbeth was a noble and loyal soldier…

William Blake was an English poet and artist who was born in 1757 in London, England. He was raised in a middle class family and his father was a hosier. His mother taught him how to read and write as well as sending him to drawing classes. At an early age, he began experiencing visions, such as a tree filled with angels. These visions later had a great impact on the art and writings that he produced. In 1782, Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher. She was illiterate, but Blake taught her how…

Although it still serves its purpose, prison is not what it used to be. When the main character of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet declares that “Denmark’s a prison,” it means much more than just a cell with clean, painted walls and a personal bunk (pg 146, Appendix 5). Today’s penal systems have drastically transformed since the sixteenth century grim forms of punishment and has become a moderate discipline in comparison. What used to be the common practices of public embarrassment, torture, and…

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is an amazing gothic short story. The story’s main character, Emily plays a huge role for the story as does the setting. The setting is the literary element that changes how the character looks at her life and by looking at the setting we can understand Emily better. I am going to criticize and analysis the story with four critics that have distinct critical theories. To understand Miss Emily Grierson’s ways we must summarize the plot of the story and get a…

Tennessee Williams is one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the twentieth century (Crelin). Although Tennessee Williams wrote fiction and motion picture screenplays, He is most applauded primarily for his plays. Born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi he is the first son of Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Williams (Adler). His father came from a respected Tennessee family which include the state’s first governor and first senator, later changing his…

William Golding was an English novelist, playwright, and poet. Golding was best known for his Novel, Lord of the Flies, in which he won the Nobel Prize for Best Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 for Fiction. In this book, the author talks about how a group of British boys crash land on a stranded island with no adults. In the beginning, Ralph the main character, takes charge due to his age and sets up a way for everyone to share their ideas through the Conch. Later Ralph is…

Power until death: that’s the phrase that sums up the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare performed in 1606. With Macbeth being infamous for violence, betrayal, and tragedy, it makes one fascinate how Shakespeare wrote such a twisted play. The historical criticism lens by the definition of Do Yeon Paik, Sung Jun Kim, and Chelsea Yangirefil “show how literary works reflect ideas and attitudes of the time in which they were written,” with the purpose to “provide context of the background…

William Shakespeare, known as “Bard of Avon”, was and is still regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is often called England’s national poet. Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, actor, dramatist, and many other theatre occupations. His works within the arts have diversified from over 38 plays, 154 sonnets, narrative poems, and verses all being translated into several living languages. Famous plays like Romeo & Juliet and Henry have been idolized within the arts for…

‘Tintern Abbey’ is a poem written by William Wordsworth. It was composed in 1798 and published in the same as Lyrical Ballads. It was composed on his second visit to the banks of the river Wye. His sister Dorothy was with him on his tour of Wye valley. The poem was composed as that were travelling from Tintern to Bristol. The poem was written down only when the poet reached Bristol. It is Tintern Abbey that we see for the first time Wordsworth as a true worshipper of nature. It shows his…