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    The Mind of The Mad What is it to be mad? Is it related to something of biological background? Or is it to do with the complex breakdown of one’s emotions? Or is it both? These questions are important to keep in mind when understanding whether Hamlet is truly mad or feigning madness as part of his ‘plan’ in which Shakespeare builds up throughout the play. This relates to the second aspect which must also be looked at when comprehending the fictional play Hamlet. This aspect is the certain ‘key’

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    An Acre of Grass Story. The poet is "at the end of [his] life." "Picture and book remain‚/An acre of green grass/For air and exercise". He is losing his "strength of body". He finds that "imagination" and reason - "the mill of the mind" cannot find the truth. All he can hope for is "an old man’s frenzy"‚ a madness of loneliness and age. Only this will bring the truth to him. Structure. 4 stanzas of 6 lines each. The last two lines of each stanza rhyme. Each line is short. A certain pattern

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    wanders into her own troubled past. She wants to figure out why she has become a placid‚ non-confrontational woman‚ so her thoughts revolve around her struggles to contain her own opinions. Genre: Tragedy Writing Style: Narrative. Modern rendition of King Lear. More plot based than style based. Setting/Atmosphere: Set in Iowa farm country Plot Development: Larry Cook’s two eldest daughter‚ Ginny and Rose‚ have been waiting on him hand and foot since the death of their mother‚ cooking every meal and washing

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    West Side Story‚ Gnomeo and Juliet‚ Lion King and She’s the Man are just a few of the adaptions made in the image of Shakespeare’s critically acclaimed plays. Shakespeare’s tragedies have acquired critical respect from literary enthusiasts all across the globe‚ yet many people believe that Shakespeare’s comedies are unworthy of the same respect. However‚ Shakespeare’s comedies entail the same levels of timelessness and poetic writing as his tragedies‚ which means that they deserve the same level

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    Explore and debate the function of Feste‚ the fool. To what extent does he offer honest insight to at least one other character‚ and to the audience? A fool by definition is “a jester or clown‚ especially one retained in a royal or noble household”. Clowns and fools appear throughout the history of comic drama‚ and commonly‚ they can be categorised in two ways. There is the licensed fool‚ who has permission to joke about the world in which the play is set‚ create satire and poke fun at their

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    man suffers. Is he responsible for his sufferings‚ calamities‚ and misfortunes for his innate defects: Tragic Flaw; or these are the result of enmity of heavenly forces. We also find this enigma in almost all great tragedies of Shakespeare. In King Lear‚ he says: As flies to wanton boys‚ are we to the gods They kill us for their sports. On the opposite‚ he says in Julius Caesar: The fault‚ dear Brutus‚ is not in our stars‚ But in ourselves‚ for we are underlings

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    literature‚ we see the corruption and downfall of society and mankind as a whole as a result of the abuse of success in the possession of those who do not deserve it as seen in William Shakespeare’s tragedy of King Lear. In the story‚ societal order is replaced with chaos when there is a power shift from Lear to his evil daughters‚ Regan and Goneril. This order only returns to a slight degree when virtue (in the form of Lear’s good daughter‚ Cordelia) returns to England. Success is hazardous when awarded to

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    schools today we force our children to study Shakespeare from first form through to till fifth form and for those fortunate few also in sixth form. Ironically it is only the famous works that make it unto the syllabus. Plays like Merchant of Venice‚ King Lear‚ Henry the fifth‚ A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream and Macbeth are some of the few Shakespearean works we are exposed to‚ unless we go find others and read. Interestingly they seem to be a structured rotation of the presence of these plays on the literature

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    Significance of Comic Scenes in Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe In tragedies‚ the playwright tries to give relief to the audience by introducing comic scenes or episodes. Literally such comic interludes is known as tragic relief. A tragedy creates tension in the mind of the audience. Therefore it becomes necessary to relax the minds of the audience by including comic scenes in the play. Otherwise‚ it generates some sort of emotional weakness. The audience of the Elizabethan period pressed for

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    the distribution of punishment while granting mercy is a responsibility to be guarded and bestowed only to the wise. Unfortunately‚ often the opposite occurs and the intoxication of justifying a wrong can in fact perpetuate injustice. In Shakespeare’s classic play‚ King Lear‚ a self righteous and unbridled pursuit of justice by Edmund‚ brings a shower of unconceived anguish upon everyone involved. A superbly written villain can be intoxicating to readers. A character´s conviction when he embodies

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