After reading the book Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ and the two critical essays about this book written by T.S. Eliot and William Hazlitt‚ I believe that it is important to read secondary sources and adopt others’ opinions. However‚ one should also have his or her own persuasions before reading the secondary sources. Secondary sources could help one explore a brand new perspective of looking at a literature‚ and may help us explore a different way of viewing a literature that we cannot see on our
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successful play is the tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’; a play riddled with extended metaphors‚ symbolism and oxymorons to depict the characters and paint them to be relatable. Romeo‚ one of the play’s main protagonists‚ is shown in different lights. At first‚
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likened them to the king. Some think the bear represents Leonte’s position in the play as he destroys his wife and child’s life out of irrational anger. Though Shakespeare’s odd stage direction involving a bear is the most famous‚ it was not the first‚ Mowat says. In Mucedorus‚ a romance originally performed in 1590‚ its playwright includes this instruction: "Exit somebody pursued by a bear." Over time‚ the bear in The Winter’s Tale has been portrayed as a hand puppet. A rug. A shadow. A man
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with Kate arguing with her father‚ Baptista and two of her sister’ (Bianca) suitors. As the two suitors compete over Bianca’s hand in marriage‚ Baptista declares to them that Bianca will not be able to marry until her sister‚ Katherine‚ is married first. However‚ no guy wants to marry Kate because she has an obnoxious and awful personality. Bianca is her younger sister of which wants to marry but cannot until Katharina does‚ which obviously creates tension on their relationship as well with their
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Discoveries are a complex‚ multi-dimensional process which enable individuals to develop new understandings and perceptions of the world and themselves. The impact of these discoveries however‚ can vary according to an individual’s historical‚ personal‚ cultural and social values and context. In Shakespeare’s play The Tempest we see both Miranda and Prospero develop as a result of their individual discoveries about humanity. Similarly in Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy the narrator encounters personal
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conflict that the love potion generates‚ leads to a hatred between not only Lysander and Hermia‚ but also a grudge between Hermia and Helena. It is within this scene that love and hate co-exist only when conflict occurs and the love is interrupted. It is first seen in this scene that love and hate can only co-exist when conflict is and love is interrupted
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use it for. Iago plan was to take Desdemona’s handkerchief and put it in Cassio’s chamber to act as if Desdemona had been going behind Othello’s back. Iago’s plan was to slowly become the culprit of Othello’s demise. “Ideas can be like poisons. At first they hardly even taste bad‚ but once they get into your blood they start burning like hot lava” (Othello pp. In this line Iago is trying to explain how his words of deceit will ultimately destroy Othello like “hot lava”. After Iago moved the
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Miranda in The Tempest The relationship between Prospero and his daughter Miranda is one of the deepest and most interesting in the play. His paternal presence in her life is stronger than she is at first aware of‚ and Shakespeare displays this nicely through the sense of sight. In the first scene of the third act‚ Prospero oversees a pivotal conversation in the relationship between his daughter and Ferdinand‚ possibly by using his magic to stay invisible. It is unclear how exactly Shakespeare
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knowledge and understanding in the first two acts Shakespeare’s “King Lear” in a play filled with betrayal and various acts of deception. This becomes evident in the first few lines. The superficiality of Goneril and Regan empty words combined with their lack of love for their father foreshadows the events to come. We first see dishonesty in Act1 Scene1 with Lears “love test”. Goneril and Regans elegant yet false speeches oppose what they really feel. Goneril speaks first and says “I love you more than
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In my tragic novel‚ Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ the point of view of the story is written in objective third person‚ but the characters speak in first person. Hamlet’s first person narration allows the reader to know his thoughts and his actions before they even happen. A combination of third person and first person point of view in the story allows the readers to know all of the thoughts and actions of each character in the story‚ as well as their intimacy‚ their feelings and their relationships
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