At the beginning of The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare presents Portia as a powerless character, and Antonio as one of the most powerful. However, by the end of the play, their positions begin to change, and Portia seems to hold the most control, whereas Antonio’s…
“On June 7, 1594, Rodrigo Lopez, the number one physician to Queen Elizabeth I of England was executed before a London crowd, on charges that included conspiring to poison the queen (Green).” His family and religious background play an important detail about the parallels of…
Coleridge’s poetic faith, also known as suspension of disbelief, is a willingness to believe the supernatural by sacrificing realism in order to provoke enjoyment. Coleridge believed that if a writer “infuses a human interest and a semblance of truth” in their representation of the supernatural,…
Language, power, and politics have thrived for many years as closely linked aspects of the human civilization, tortuously interlaced through the expatriate and decolonization grandiloquence and literary compositions. Famous authors and composers of literary works such as Shakespeare have embraced language as a tool important…
Empathy is a key characteristic that even human needs to have. It not only provides the individual with the tools needed to understand one another, but adds compassion and pity to one’s characteristics. In The Tempest, written by William Shakespeare, the idea of ecocriticism and…
King Lear is a play written by William Shakespeare, dating back to Elizabethan times. This play follows the stories of two royal families and the dysfunction within it. The parents and children from the families all possess qualities and attributes that prove them to be…
Kent speaks these lines on Lear’s death in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606), an end which comes as the final blow in a play where “every resolution and scrap of certainty the story appears to promise is systematically denied us”. The “promised end” (KL.V.3.262) of this…
In undertaking a psychoanalytical approach to King Lear, this paper treads in the footsteps of Freud in his ‘The Theme of the Three Caskets.’ Clearly early Jacobean society was very different from our own; expectations of patriarchy and the place of daughters was only partly…
To introduce all the elements, it is important to understand the hamartia of the main character. According to Aristotle, hamartia falls under three categories; to make a mistake, to offend morally, and error of judgment resulting from ignorance or arrogance. In King Lear, Shakespeare portrays…
The play Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona. It is a story about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families and this causes tragic results for the main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet. The events in the play contrast hatred…
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