Willys Misery Death of a Salesman by Arthur miller is a short story about the tragedy of a family in the 1940s Willy Loman is a salesman who lives in New York he worked by traveling around to make sales for a company but is very unsuccessful and doesnt like his job Willy has a two sons Biff Loman a thirty four year old man with no future ahead of him and failed to make a career as a football player because he failed a math class and Happy Loman doesnt really contribute with Biff and Willys conf
Euripides Medea and Senecas Medea are the two surviving ancient tragedies of Medea Both versions are drastically different and contrast in several aspects Euripides portrays Medea as more human She is the epitome of the oppressed housewife and only after her suffering is she capable of the crimes she committed Senecas Medea is even more vengeful than Euripides and she is angry from the very beginning Senecas version also portrays Medea as a vengeful sorceress whereas in Euripides version though
Sweet Revenge When looked at for the first time Montresor in Edgar Allan Poes The Cask of Amontillado may seem disturbing Montresor has plans to murder a man Fortunato for insulting him and plans on doing so by walling him up in the catacombs under his home Montresor devises a clever plan that will leave Fortunato clueless as to what his intensions really are Upon a closer look Montresors character is admirable Montresor carries out his plan successfully without being caught Montresor is Poes m
Claudius is a perfect example of a character who confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with his responsibility Claudius is jealous of his brothers royalty kingdom and queen He took matter in his own hands and murders King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear He took over the throne and gained everything he envied his brother for Two months after he murdered the king he married Gertrude the newly widowed queen The Conflict at hand is that Claudius is fully aware that he is mor
Shakespeares The Tempest is a play about a man named Prospero once the Duke of Milan who was usurped by his younger brother Antonio with the help of Alonso the king of Naples He was left on the sea with his baby daughter Miranda to die but luckily he survives on an island By some force of fate a ship containing his traitors is nearby Prospero uses magic whose study cost him his dukedom to cause a tempest and to bring the traitors on land making them think they have been shipwrecked He then begi
Question Relationships at all levels involve complex powerplay How is this complexity represented in Othello and Prize Giving Othello by Shakespeare and Prize Giving by Gwen Harwood both have relationships that involve complex powerplay Powerplay is the subtle shifts of power between people for some ulterior motive Powerplay is complex because of its varying representations and its ability to shift suddenly In Othello the complex powerplay is represented by the racial tension of society compare
Shakespeare had to make recourse to a wholly artificial device in order to show Hamlet in action or inaction the soliloquy Another strain that goes through Hamlet and a disturbing one is the abuse by Hamlet of his former beloved and his mother Ophelia and Gertrude In his scenes with Ophelia Hamlet is relentlessly cruel charging her with a lustful nature a dishonest heart a dissembling appearance and so on He builds up in scene three to an utterly misogynistic rant beginning I have heard of your