text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’ portrays a malicious and corrupted Richard to explore the themes of divine justice and the notion of outer appearance versus inner reality in the theocentric context of the Elizabethan society. Four centuries later‚ Al Pacino’s
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“you” suggests otherwise. The reason behind Shakespeare’s use of personal and direct language is to allow the audience to imagine Antonio as the embodiment of Christianity. Thus‚ letting the Elizabethan audience know that Shylock’s feelings of hatred is actually aimed towards the Christians and hence the Elizabethan audience themselves‚ therefore causing further resent and prejudice towards Shylock’s character. While the use of the word “dog”‚ which is repeated throughout the play‚ not only symbolises
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the Elizabethan era the expectations of men and women were clear. Generally‚ men were to be the bread winner for his family and the women were meant to be mothers and housewives."Women were expected to be silent‚ chaste‚ and obedient to their husbands‚ fathers‚ brothers‚ and all men in general. Patriarchal rule justified women’s subordination as the natural order because women were thought to be physiologically and physiologically inferior to men"(Roles of Women‚ literary-articles) Elizabethan women
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Themes Revenge and Justice "Vengeance is mine; I will repay‚ sayeth the lord" (Romans.xii.19). This Bible verse is quoted by Hieronimo in Act III‚ scene xiii‚ and it can be said to epitomize the official Elizabethan attitude toward revenge: that it is something that should be left to God. But this position is silent on the relationship between revenge and justice‚ which are are identified with each other throughout the play—Hieronimo makes the connection explicitly several times‚ and revenge is
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“In a play concerned with good and evil‚ with deceit and honesty‚ Desdemona is the refined‚ uncomplicated embodiment of goodness and purity.” Does this statement resonate with your own interpretation of Othello? The play‚ Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare is most definitely a play that is concerned with good and evil‚ and Desdemona does reflect the good in the play and remains the victim throughout. Throughout the play the reader is presented with a battle between the deceitful forces of
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Introduction – William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Tragedy Macbeth and A Simple Plan by Sam Rami are surprisingly similar. The two tragedies illustrate two contented ordinary men‚ whose lives are irrevocably altered for the worse because the timely values of power‚ greed and desire for position. Macbeth and A Simple Plan delve into the idea of the obsessive urge to be in a position of power which causes them to lose their ability to discern truth from illusion. Shakespeare and Rami explore the consequences
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play about race‚ history has made it one." The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century. Although Othello is set in Venice and Cyprus‚ the attitudes and values shared in the text are probably reflective of the attitudes and values of Shakespeare’s own society. It is difficult to assess
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so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing”. Thus thought Mrs. Grimsditch‚ a housekeeper in Virginia Woolf’s sixth novel “Orlando”. Being a woman of the Elizabethan era‚ she quite obviously was ignorant to the advantages of education. The English Renaissance however‚ saw a marked increase in the numbers of women writers. While few works are known to have been published by women in England before 1500‚ over
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works‚ not only because of its philosophical insights into human nature but for showing the reality of the political system during Elizabethan times and the abuse of power. If Shakespeare portrays these issues through strong male characters and their concerns about life‚ he on the other hand portrayed women still in the way they were supposed to behave and act. Elizabethan women were submissive‚ subservient to men and they had no voice other than ’I do’ the day they married. Such a paradox‚ as the chief
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“Elizabethan Torture and Execution” In the 16th century‚ life was all in all short of “child’s play”‚ for the socially necessitous‚ at least. The judicial system reigned heavily as the generality fell victim under it’s horror. Due to which of the six social classes you belonged‚ (Monarch- being the highest‚ Nobility‚ Gentry‚ Merchants‚ Yoemanry‚ or Laborers- being the lowest)‚ your punishment could be the sole difference between life and death. The Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)‚ ran
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