stanza‚ Shakespeare says that in forty years when the man is all wrinkled‚ the beauty of his youth will mean nothing. But if he has a child‚ then the legacy of his beauty will live on forever. In the second stanza‚ Shakespeare says that the man will hate himself if he does not have children‚ and when he gets old and decrepit he cannot see his beauty passed on to anyone. He will look back on his life‚ and realize how greedy and selfish he was by not having children. In the third
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SHAKESPEARE‚ WILLIAM (1564—1616)‚ English poet‚ player and playwright‚ was baptized in the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire on the 26th of April. Birth 1564. The exact date of his birth is not known. 18th-century antiquaries‚ William Oldys and Joseph Greene‚ gave it as April 23‚ but without quoting authority for their statements‚ and the fact that April 23 was the day of Shakespeare’s death in 1616 suggests a possible source of error. In any case his birthday cannot have been
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Report on the theme “Shakespeare’s Contribution to World Literature” by Zharmukhamed Arailym from IN-11-2 Shakespeare’s Contribution to World Literature William Shakespeare created a new epoch in world literature. The ideas set forth by the Renaissance‚ the ideology of Humanism are expressed by him in the most realistic way. Shakespeare has faith in Man. He hates injustice. His plays have become popular throughout the world because of his realistic characters. The history of English drama is reflected
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that of a play. This quote‚ pulled from the play As You Like it‚ a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare‚ has been repeated and analyzed thoroughly throughout the years by poets and philosophers alike. This set speech‚ spoken by Jacques‚ takes a seven step look at the aging process of man: infant‚ schoolboy‚ lover‚ soldier‚ justice‚ pantaloon‚ and second childishness. With such visual dialect Shakespeare metaphorically compares the seven stages of aging‚ to the multiple acts of a play and the plot’s
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described as the advocacy for equal treatment towards women’s rights. Different aspects including ideologies and political movements create a range for the goal of feminism‚ to launch an era of political‚ social‚ and economic equality of sexes. Shakespeare tackles the idea of the treatment of women and gender roles in many of his sonnets‚ plays and other forms of literature. Oddly‚ most of Shakespeare’s depictions of women are opposite to what is stereotypically known by society. The personalities
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State’s library does not have Shakespeare. After John and Lenina go to a feely movie together‚ the night comes to end and John drops Lenina off at her house without having sex with her. This leaves her bewildered and lacking confidence. She deals with the situation by taking soma‚ and john releases all of his passion and emotion by reading Shakespeare. These actions are similar because both are methods of escape. For John‚ the raw and passionate emotions in Shakespeare help him to understand himself
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Virginia Woolf initiations this Essay: What if Shakespeare Had Had a Sister? By being very dismayed about not being able to acquire an explanation on why men are richer than women or why women are poorer than men. She wants to make sure that she gets facts and not opinion. Thus she decided to visit the time of Elizabeth and discover why women did not write‚ but men were writing non-stop and achieving literary excellence. Shakespeare comes up and Woolf compares his writings to “enchanted spider webs
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chc A TERM PAPER IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE I. POEM ANALYSIS: Sonnet 41 by Shakespeare 1. Persona- The poem is about a youth and her personality. The youth is identified as young and beautiful and her beauty (or pleasing personality) ---as in‚ “Beauteous thou art”--- makes her susceptible to temptations thus‚ causing him to commit sins. The persona could be the poet himself accusing a beloved girl for her mistakes in life which are really expected. 2. Addressee- The persona is addressing
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powerful. Puritans believed that plays meant you were trying to be someone else which by their tradition was a sin. Shakespeare knew that their custom was different from the one he wrote his previous plays. Therefore Shakespeare wrote his plays to suit their customs. Why do Shakespeare’s plays sound like the King James
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William Shakespeare: Shakespearean Authorship Many individuals say that William Shakespeare of Stratford is the original writer of all 38 plays and 154 sonnets. It is argued that someone else other than Shakespeare wrote these plays. William Shakespeare was born April 23‚ 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Shakespreare was a lower middle-class man. William Shakespaeare‚ son of John Shakespeare‚ a glove maker and town official and Mary Arden who belonged to a family of the local gentry. Also‚ father
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