Although Romeo and Juliet is classified as a tragedy it more closely resembles Shakespeares comedies than his other tragedies The lovers and their battle with authority is reminiscent of As You Like It and The Winters Tale Characteristically those comedies concern themselves with the inborn unargued stupidity of older people and the life affirming gaiety and resourcefulness of young ones The lovers thread their way through obstacles set up by middle aged vanity and impercipience Parents are stu
William Shakespeares Hamlet is a very dark play filled with murders and plots of revenge The play focuses on a battle of wits between two men Hamlet and Claudius as Hamlet seeks revenge for his father Even though the plays main plot concerns the struggle between the men the women in Hamlet play a crucial role Gertrude and Ophelia even though they are not developed as well as some of the men in the play are greatly important to the men in achieving their personal goals Gertrude and Ophelia were
new Brave New World is a book that centres on the idea that if we allow science to take control of too much of our lives then science will control us It is not simply a warning of what could happen to society if things go wrong it is a satirical look of the society that we live in as well as the society that Aldus Huxley the author lived in From the incompatibility of happiness and truth shown through the use of soma to the attempt that the world state makes to control and muffle any attempt by
Bridging across two continents and three distinct times Abraham Vergheses Cutting for Stone proves to be a timeless work of literature that pulls at the heartstrings of anyone who dares to read it Set in the backdrop of Ethiopia during a time of turmoil and revolutionary changes as well as in two major cities in the Eastern United States this fictional novel appears to parallel important junctures in Vergheses own life He was born in Ethiopia near Addis Ababa to Indian parents and had started h
William Shakespeare was a brilliant wordsmith and his uses of different types of literary devices crossed the spectrum from different sentence arrangements to double meanings from foreshadowing to metaphors Sickness is seen as the epitome of evil in some cases because it is a vile state treated by some rather cruel treatments to purge the soul of impurities It seems that if one had made mistakes in life ailments would ensue and you would be punished by getting sick Shakespeare does not use mala
Antigone Search for Justice Justice is a word we hear today all the time Left and right we hear of judges and citizens demanding justice Is justice always the right way It seems that justice is not always the correct solution to a problem but a solution that is the easiest to make The classic play Antigone is a perfect example of this Antigone is classic tragedy at its finest A simple civilized and humane right of burying a loved one is turned into a great loss Creons inapt decision to hold his
The Greek drama is the earliest type of play making one expect a plethora of plays both modern and classical that are based on the structure of a Greek drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has several elements of the Greek drama that add to its charm Among these elements are the unities the modes of persuasion and the tragic flaw The unity of time is applied by Tennessee Williams in this play The unity of time states that the time span of a play should be close to that of the time for the events of the
Conflicting perspectives appear within both texts individually and inter textually These perceptions evidently polarize common ideologies emitted which through comparison the responder can react and conclude profound individual responses Shakespeares dramatic play Julius Caesar presents a variety of perspectives that clash providing deeper understandings of the text A contrasting textual form to the play the historical account Life of Brutus by Plutarch presents a far more objective view as the
To what extent can Willy Loman be considered a tragic hero according to Aristotles rules Arthur Miller presents his play Death of a Salesman in the ancient form of a tragedy Aristotle has defined his idea of the perfect tragedy in his text Poetics 350 BC Here he suggests that the protagonist must fall from an elevated social standing as a result of a fatal flaw within the character the fall from the main character creates resolution to the play which is seen as just finally Aristotle identified
For us to be able to understand Othellos tragedy we may consider what the essence of tragedy is and how other classical tragic heroes of a similar vein have been presented A tragedy is in its simplest form a serious drama typically depicting a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force such as fate or destiny In the case of Othello however it could be argued that the superior forces with which he battles are the racial abuse of his peers or the treacherous Iago but I will address the