Hamlet
.... a smart and original technique, although the second one is a little different than the first. At the end of the play one of the main characters, Horatio, begins to tell the story of Hamlet to a group of soldiers. The audience can also be considered part of the group who he is talking to. This raises the question of whether the whole play was just Horatio telling the story and we were just being brought full circle. This is a nice touch to add, especially at the end of the play, and it really adds another dimension which was lacking before.
Another proof of Hamlet’s superiority and Shakespeare’s playwriting abilities is the .....
|
|
Much Ado About Nothing
.... a good thing in a person's life.
Beatrice was a character very similar to Benedick. She was a very independent person, and didn't want to rely on anyone for support. She also was very smart. She enjoyed reading poetry, and thought about things a lot. She also was against marriage. During one conversation, she even said that she would rather die than get married. Another characteristic of Beatrice was that she was very emotional. She often changed her mood all of a sudden for no apparent reason. Also, Beatrice kept many of her feelings inside her. Sometimes she would be angry but wouldn't show it,because she always had to feel stro .....
|
|
Brutus Is A Very Ambitious Man
.... to know the facts, “Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may better judge” (). Brutus got people sympathy by saying that he never wronged Caesar, that he cried for Caesar’s love, was happy for his greatness, honored him for his courage but had to kill him for the better of people.
Brutus was very ambitious about his plans. He stuck to his ideas and led the way of the conspiracy. With out Brutus there would have been nothing to the Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Brutus was the backbone to the conspiracy. Cassius said that Brutus’ main purpose in the conspiracy is for an insurance policy. The people will .....
|
|
The Destruction Of Macbeth?
.... wife because these witches knew exactly what to say to spark the fire in Macbeth. These witches stir up trouble throughout the whole play and aid to the destruction of Macbeth. Though, they are also not the main reason for his downfall because they warn Macbeth of his destruction, but he doesn’t listen to the three witches and tries to challenge their prophecies. Do to his stubbornness, he is destroyed like the three witches prophesized.
The main reason for Macbeth’s downfall is his ambition. Macbeth was a very ambitious man, and the other two reasons only added fuel to the fire that was all ready there. If he was not ambi .....
|
|
Riders Of The Sea: Analysis
.... care of, and she can be free. And finally, a fourth reason the Irish thought that the play was insulting them was the fact that there were no “good times” or happy, pleasant times. It was all about death, and negativity. Many thought Synge was portraying them as being obsessed with death, and their life wasn’t worth living under the circumstances.
Realistically, Synge meant all these instances in a positive way. First off, when Maurya did not cry, his intentions were to show that she became strong as a result of all the deaths. By revealing tears, it would show that she was defeated, and was not strong enough. She made it a way .....
|
|
Trifles: Summary
.... both went upstairs. After seeing Mr. Wight dead, Harry went down the road and called the sheriff. Mrs. Wright just kept rocking in her chair.
So, the attorney’s murder investigation continued, with Mr. Hale and the sheriff following. They first snooped around the kitchen for evidence, criticizing the sloppiness. Next, the men went upstairs and left the women standing in the kitchen. The men trusted the ladies downstairs by themselves since one of them was the sheriff’s wife, or “married to the law” as the attorney put it.
While the men were upstairs, the two women began to uncover who the killer was and their motives. Th .....
|
|
Camera Techniques Used In Shakespeare In Love
.... across a subject creates a particular mood as well as establishing the viewer’s relationship with the subject. For example, when all the players are in the tavern and Henslow lets out that Will has a wife Viola as Thomas gets upset and runs out of the tavern; Will runs after her and the camera follows them. The viewer can sense Viola’s pain and also Will’s pain as the camera cuts back and forth between each character.
There are also camera techniques used to establish distance and angle: long shot, establishing shot, medium shot, close-up, angle of shot, and point of view. Long shots show the character and all the surrounding rath .....
|
|
‘To Be Or Not To Be’
.... or not to be…’ and ends with the second repetition of ‘To die-to sleep.’ In this section Hamlet concentrate’s on the two courses of action he can take; to live or to die. The theme within this part is centered on the ‘question.’ The second part begins with ‘To sleep’ and concludes with the question ‘Than fly to others…’ Here, the question about the after life arises and Hamlet again discusses the hardships of life but this time uses numerous examples; ‘the whips and scorns of time’, ‘pangs of despised love’, ‘law’s delay’, ‘insolence of office’, and ‘the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.’ In this section Hamlet’s la .....
|
|
Essay: Shakespeare’s Tragedy
.... he is sentenced to exile by the Prince, for the murder of Tybalt. As Romeo is sentenced he becomes aware he must pay for what he has done.
More importantly, when Romeo’s virtue is ruined the characters make it well known to the audience. As Romeo withdraws himself from the stage he exhibits to us that he is felling guilty about something that he has done (654). Romeo is so disappointed in himself that he is already contemplating his own death. In addition, when all morality is lost, Romeo commits suicide by drinking an unheavenly intense poison.
Finally, Romeo and Juliet project towards the audience how hate can bring about .....
|
|
Attitude Changes In Macbeth
.... not to murder Duncan, this is because as lady Macbeth said "he is to full of the milk of human kindness" and his elaborate imagination causes him to see the crime in all its horror before the deed is actually done.
Lady Macbeth uses her cunning rhetoric and persuasive techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to do. He then tells her that "I am settled." He is firmly seated in his beliefs that killing Duncan is the right thing to do-until he performs the murder. He is so horrified by this act that for a moment he forgets where he is or whom he is with. We learn from this murder .....
|
|
The Role Of Fate In Antigone
.... moment from the declaration, is destined to die because it is her fate and her duty to bury her brother. This civil disobedience is a tool of the gods to govern earth but heavenly law in the most extreme case. Antigone’s decision to bury her brother is not one of free will but of divine direction, for with Sopholces and Greek drama there is no free will. Sophocles considers free will a mortal misconception and a celestial instrument the gods use to carry-out their will on earth.
Then, Antigone seals her fate by completing the burial of her brother. Under the idea of free will she would have been able to save herself by not .....
|
|
Oedipus The King
.... he is one man and all unknown, or one of many may he wear out his life in misery or doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth, I pray that I myself may feel my curse."
In order for Sophocles' Greek audience to relate to the tragic figure, he had to have some type of flaws or an error of ways. This brought the character down to a human level, invoking in them the fear that "it could happen to them." And Oedipus certainly is not one without flaws. His pride, ignorance, insolence and disbelief in the gods, and unrelenting quest for the truth ultimately contributed to his destruction. When Oedipus was told (after threa .....
|
|
|
