Few characters in the Shakespearean canon have provoked as much violent debate and as many varied readings and theatrical and filmic interpretations as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew For one nineteenth century male critic he is a madman in his senses a very honest fellowa character which most husbands ought to study unless perhaps the very audacity of Petruchios attempt might alarm them more than his success would encourage them William Hazlitt The Characters of Shakespeares Plays 1817 ci
Humans are innately brutish and evil their animalistic disposition concealed by a false front of civility The pieces Lord of the Flies and The Second Coming illustrate that when there is an absence of order mankind erodes to savagery and barbarianism While William Golding and William Yeats both place emphasis on the consequences suffered with the absence of an authority figure similarities are discovered between the two pieces of work These works highlight how the loss of the ability to communi