Dr. J.F. van Dijkhuizen Literature 6B: Shakespeare: An introductory course 5 August 2011 How are relations between different ethnic groups represented in The Merchant of Venice and Othello? Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes as fallacious and inhuman. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can‚ therefore‚ present challenges to modern readers and audiences because‚ to a certain extent‚ Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic
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texts that argue against the stereotype‚ many follow the same reasoning of female witches. The show Supernatural is a modern example of this ideology. Two brothers‚ Sam and Dean Winchester travel all around the country to fight evil spirits. During one of their trips‚ they come across some witchcraft. This leads them to discovering a coven practicing witchcraft with an undercover demon. (Supernatural 2008). With the gendering of women in modern television and premodern texts one can ask: To what extent
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In the famous love story‚ “Romeo and Juliet”‚ Shakespeare uses a soliloquy to reveal Juliet’s affection in order to establish that people can get lost in feelings than reality. Romeo and Juliet are two unique individuals that come from different households that don’t get along well together. One ordinary day‚ Romeo was unexpectedly invited to Juliet’s house party and goes to the party in hope to meet Rosaline‚ his first love. At the party‚ Romeo goes to find Rosaline and suddenly he sees a girl named
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Connotations in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Shakespeare’s The Tempest was written between the years 1610 and 1611‚ and was known as one of only two plays that Shakespeare wrote as an entirely original piece. It was performed for the second time in 1612 to honor the wedding of the daughter of King James. Given the fact that it was written as an original‚ there is possibility that Shakespeare may have written this with royalty in mind. While staging and props were not a particular focus of the play in a visual sense‚ it
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Blood is known to all of us to represent life‚ death and often injury. Blood is an essential part of life‚ and without blood‚ we could not live. This is known to everyone‚ and because of this‚ when Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent treason‚ murder and death‚ it is easily understood and fits in perfectly with the ideas we have of blood.<br><br>Blood is mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first sinister reference to blood is in Act 2‚ Scene
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Occurrence of Supernatural Events Many people say they have had supernatural occurrences with ghosts. In the story “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare‚ the author shows many supernatural events throughout the story. “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is about Macbeth and how the witches tricked him‚ eventually leading to his death. Some supernatural events that occurred were the three witches‚ the floating dagger‚ the ghost of Banquo‚ and the apparitions. Shakespeare uses the supernatural very well
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Explore the ways that Shakespeare uses soliloquies to express the emotions of Romeo in the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare uses many literary devices such as imagery‚ personification‚ antithesis‚ dramatic irony as well as rich vibrant adjectives and nouns‚ to make the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ emotive and powerful. All of these are employed in the prologue as well as in soliloquies of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3 to express the emotions of Romeo. In the prologue the context of the story is
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William Shakespeare has written many pieces in the late 16th and early 17th century‚ period of wars of religion in England between catholic and protestant. England had just come under protestant rules but was surrounded and still had knowledge on catholic beliefs. Queen Elizabeth 1 prohibited the expression of religion in plays. Shakespeare was able to indirectly express thoughts and questions on religion‚ in a way to make the audience think and question themselves. In the play Hamlet‚ the Ghost
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is the knowledge of external objects or events without using our five basic senses. People that believe that they have a kind of ESP are people such as psychics or spiritualists that believe they can communicate with the dead (Encarta). ESP is a supernatural and is nothing of the natural world that can be explained. Most believers in the phenomena of extrasensory perception do not understand physics at all and maintain that spatial distance is irrelevant to the exercise of ESP. People often have
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Georgina Becerra Assignment 3 Cultural Anthropology Professor Paison April 29‚ 2012 Spirituality‚ Religion and the Supernatural Religion is an organized system of ideas about spiritual reality‚ or the supernatural ‚ along with associated beliefs and ceremonial practices by which people try to interpret and/or influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond their control (Haviland p. 312.)Spirituality‚ concern with the sacred‚ as distinguished from material matters. In contrast to religion
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