A Jungian Interpretation of the Tempest Shakespeares Tempest lends itself to many different levels of meaning and interpretation The play can be seen on a realistic plane as a tale of political power and social responsibility It can be seen as allegory examining the growth of the human spirit The Tempest investigates marriage love culture It is symbolic of mans rational higher instincts verses his animal natural tendencies This is a play of repentance power revenge and fate that can also be see
The Jealousy of Othello and the Motives of Iago in William Shakespeares Othello The Orthodox interpretation of Shakespeares Othello is built on two assumptions that Othello is not a jealous man and that Iago has no motives Although there are many examples of these opinions within the play I believe there is much more evidence which contradict these two statements which allow me to conclude that Othello is in fact a jealous man and that Iago does have motives As the play progresses the audience
1st Topic Katherinas development in the play The Taming of the Shrew is a complicated dilemma for the reader to figure out Is she really tamed by Petruchio Or does she figure out his game and decide shes better off playing along Or does she recognize her own excessive behavior in his and decide to change of her own free will Or does she really fall in love with Petruchio and wish to please her lord I think her evolution is a combination of all of the above But do we as readers want her to be ta
Andres Salazar Like all that pertains to crime it seemed never to have known a youthful era 43 Only taking fifteen to twenty years for the wooden jail to become darker besides its already gloomy appearance the prison door never looked new With crime being associated to bad people and hatred the prison door sets the tone for the novel This prison door appearing to hold dangerous criminals set in Utopia where they know that misbehavior evil and death are unavoidable sets the tone of sadness fille
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
Another personal virtue that is a major theme in the epic is loyalty The most striking example of loyalty in the epic is of course Penelope who waits faithfully for 20 years for her husbands return Another example is Telemachus who stands by his father against the suitors Odysseus old nurse Eurycleia remains loyal to Penelope and her absent master Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd are exemplary in their loyalty to their master and his possessions Also an excellent if humble host
Shylock in The Merchant of Venice In the play The Merchant of Venice Shylock is the hardest person in the play to figure out As he is perceived to be the most noteworthy character in the play there hasnt really been any consensus as to whether we should classify him as a bloodthirsty bogeyman a clownish Jewish stereotype or a tragic figure whose sense of decency has been fractured by the persecution he endures Certainly Shylock is the plays antagonist in his devil like moments he holds but he a
Fighting For His Life Ordinarily if one annihilates a multi million dollar edifice especially one built to house the downtrodden poor the culprit will undoubtedly face severe penalties and jail time However Howard Roark Ayn Rands embodiment of what man can and ought to be dynamites a housing project that he himself designed known as Cortlandt Homes and receives no punishment and rightly so In the novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Howard Roark appears as the main character as well as what many
Gilgamesh In the beginning of the epic Gilgamesh is a tyrant and exploits his rights as king Hes arrogant spiteful restless powerful impulsive and does whatever he wants to whomever For instance Gilgamesh sounds the tocsin for his amusement his arrogance has no bounds by day or night No son is left with his father for Gilgamesh takes them all even the children His lust leaves no virgin to her lover neither the warriors daughter nor the wife of the noble The Bedford Anthology of World Literature
Gilgamesh and Enkidu From Enemies to Lovers Gilgamesh is an epic poem written supposedly by he himself Gilgamesh dated back to 2000 B C The ancient authors of the stories that compose the poem are anonymous It is told that Gilgamesh wrote this story himself This poem was originally written in Sumerian Akkadian Hurrian and Hittite The story took place in 2700 b c in Mesopotamia which is present day Iraq The literary form is an epic poem The main character in this poem is Gilgamesh who is two par