Individual Oral Commentary Merchant of Venice Act Scene 1 Lines 8 45 This extract is from the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and is placed in Act 1 Scene 1 of the play which can also be called the expository scene of the play Right before the extract we as readers have been introduced to the confused character of Antonio a rich Jewish merchant by the author who doesnt even know the source of his extreme sadness and depression Through the extract from lines 8 45 the author ha
Monster and Beast This paper will compare the themes of the novel Frankenstein a book written by Mary Shelley which was published anonymously in 1818 with Disneys 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast a musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman The novel and the film both have remarkable similarities and connection in terms of the characters settings and symbols used The novel starts with Victor Frankensteins meddling with the natural set of things including death In Frankensteins intelligent
Octavia Butlers Kindred tells a story of how a modern day black woman Dana is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor Rufus Weylin lives on Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor Each time Dana goes back to the past sh
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a play by Tennessee Williams focuses on a seemingly dysfunctional relationship between the two main characters Brick and Maggie The first act begins with Brick in the shower isolated unable to hear or communicate with Maggie as she tries to shout over the noise of the water this appears to symbolise their relationship Brick seems to make no effort and is without interest to communicate with Maggie he seems cold like the water of the shower and the snowy white surface of th
Explain the Transformation in the Relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth following the murder of Duncan Macbeth was written between 1603 and 1606 in the times of King James VIs reign a time when the stereotype for the stronger and harder gender was the male sort however Shakespeare obviously knew that making a play that contradicts this would cause a huge uproar either for or against it luckily for us it was a success and we still relish it still today Shakespeare probably did not believ
Revenge is a major theme in the Tragedy of Hamlet There were three major families in the play these being the family of King Fortinbras the family of Polonius and the family of King Hamlet The heads of each of these families are all slaughtered within the play Fortinbras King of Norway was killed by King Hamlet during a man to man battle thus entitling King Hamlet to the land that was possessed by Fortinbras Polonius was an advisor to the King and father to Laertes and Ophelia was nosy and arro
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeares most famous plays and was written in the Elizabethan times Macbeth explores how power can effect people and ultimately lead to their downfall A range of themes are portrayed including guilt ambition and conscience However the key element in Macbeth is the theme of the supernatural Elements such as Macbeths hallucinations and apparitions and the involvement of witches are all stereotypical things to include when working with the supernatural The theme of th