One of Shaws aims in this play is to debunk the romantic heroics of war he wanted to present a realistic account of war and to remove all pretensions of nobility from war It is not however an anti war play instead it is a satire on those attitudes which would glorify war To create this satire Shaw chose as his title the opening lines of Virgils Aeneid the Roman epic which glorifies war and the heroic feats of man in war and which begins Of arms and the man I sing When the play opens we hear abo
William Shakespeares plays are some of the most important and best plays ever to be written Shakespeare draws from classical sources to create different types of literary elements in A Midsummer Nights Dream and others of his plays His characters are inspired from Celtic fairies and some are also even somehow connected to Greek myths Greek gods are mentioned a lot throughout A Midsummer Nights Dream and are mentioned many times by some of the characters In his plays Shakespeare uses many source
Odysseus and Aeneas are two of the most prominent characters in Greek Mythology They are considered to be two of the greatest heroes of their respective races Obviously these two characters have several similarities and inevitably some differences as well for several reasons First as a similarity theyre both survivors able to keep going when everything is stripped from them At first Aeneas is wandering the Mediterranean as the Aeneid opens with everything that remains of his past loaded into hi
When I had journeyed half of our lifes way I had found myself within a shadowed forest for I had lost the past that does not stray Canto I lines 1 3 These opening lines establish themes that are to come in this book These are themes that actively engage the reader in this unforgettable journey through Hell that can easily be applied to their own lives Dante includes the reader by using words like our life that draws the reader in by telling them that they are actually accompanying Dante on the
Throughout Shakespeares Hamlet he gives Hamlet seven soliloquys to help the audience gain knowledge of his inner thoughts and ideas During Hamlets fourth soliloquy towards the end of Act two the reader begins to notice his philosophical vies and the constant contemplation of his goal to exact revenge for the murder of his father Hamlets fourth soliloquy begins with the exit of Polonius the players Guildenstern and Rosencrantz The feeling of this speech allows the reader to see what seems to be