"Measure for Measure," by Shakespeare

Written between the autumn of 1890 and spring of the next year, "Spring Awakening" was the first major play in the modern era of theater. The play was banned due to its controversial subject matter; human sexuality, child abuse, suicide and homosexuality. Adapted in 2006 by Steven Sater, the play became a rock musical with some of the interior dialogue transposed into song. In "Spring Awakening," Sater alluded to some of the most important writers such as Homer, Baudelaire, Racine and Shakespeare.

By referring to some of history's greatest writers, Sater cleverly reinforced the main themes of his play. Foremost, Shakespeare writer to be mentioned in this play. When Wendla told her mother that she wanted to know where babies come from, her mother answered that to conceive a child, a woman had to love her husband. With the song “Mama Who Bore Me," Wendla lamented that her mother did not wanted to tell her the truth. The young girl was upset about the lack of knowledge presented to her. This song was a reference to the play "Measure for Measure," by Shakespeare. Isabella was considered as one of Shakespeare’s strongest female characters; a women of great virtue and purity.

By referring to some of history's greatest writers, Sater cleverly reinforced the main themes of his play. Foremost, Shakespeare writer to be mentioned in this play. When Wendla told her mother that she wanted to know where babies come from, her mother answered that to conceive a child, a woman had to love her husband. With the song “Mama Who Bore Me," Wendla lamented that her mother did not wanted to tell her the truth. The young girl was upset about the lack of knowledge presented to her. This song was a reference to the play "Measure for Measure," by Shakespeare. Isabella was considered as one of Shakespeare’s strongest female characters; a women of great virtue and purity.

Written between the autumn of 1890 and spring of the next year, "Spring Awakening" was the first major play in the modern era of theater. The play was banned due to its controversial subject matter; human sexuality, child abuse, suicide and homosexuality. Adapted in 2006 by Steven Sater, the play became a rock musical with some of the interior dialogue transposed into song. In "Spring Awakening," Sater alluded to some of the most important writers such as Homer, Baudelaire, Racine and Shakespeare.

Written between the autumn of 1890 and spring of the next year, "Spring Awakening" was the first major play in the modern era of theater. The play was banned due to its controversial subject matter; human sexuality, child abuse, suicide and homosexuality. Adapted in 2006 by Steven Sater, the play became a rock musical with some of the interior dialogue transposed into song. In "Spring Awakening," Sater alluded to some of the most important writers such as Homer, Baudelaire, Racine and Shakespeare.

My presentation is a picture that accounts a nearly fading rose with its pedals scattering and finally diminishing in the black background.

The undistinguishable outlines of the images immerse the whole picture in an obscure and blurry atmosphere, giving the viewers a sense of bewilderment, which has relevance to the unconsciousness and unawareness of Desdemona's mind when Iago's manipulation stalks her and Othello's jealousy destroys her.

The only concrete object portrayed in the painting is a withered rose losing its sheen and splendour. The once thriven and glorious rose is the most appropriate reflection of Desdemona's pleasant mentality before she marries Othello. By contrast, the present twisted state of the rose indicates the grief and torture she now suffers from Othello's change in attitudes and her own perplexity of the cause of this change. Two conspicuously different colours “ red and black are used to shock the viewers at the first glimpse and highlight the ambivalent feelings of Desdemona for Othello: on one hand she deeply relies on and adores him, on the other hand, scares of and misunderstands him. The juxtaposition of colours also infers the conflicting elements.