1. The Merchant of Venice - Argumentitive Essay
Shall I Compare you to a Summer's Day? You are more lovely and more delightful: Rough winds shake the much loved buds of May And Summer is far too short: At times the sun is too hot, Or often goes behind the clouds; And everything that is beautiful will lose its beauty By Chance or by nature's planned out course; But your youth shall not fade, Nor lose the Beauty that you possess; Nor will death claim you for his own, Because in my eternal verse you will live forever: So long as there are people on this earth, So long will this poem live on, giving you immortality. ....
A Comparison of Time in Macbeth and As You Like It In Shakespearean drama, a dynamic and explosive fusion of jealousy, pride, anger and ambition is characteristic for heroes" behaviour. ... There is very strong sense of predestination ("when" instead of "if") while in "As You Like It" Orlando's flight is pathless and the meeting of lovers - an act of Fate. ... All is left is contempt - the concept of man was crumbled to pieces in "Macbeth": "Time and the hour runs through the roughest day" /I.iii.146/ while in "As You Like It" time was the main factor which contributed to a r...
Iago then foreshadows his plans for Othello to Roderigo, "O, sir, content you. ... I have much to do but to go hang my head all at one side and sing it like poor Barbary. ... I pray you, in your letters, when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am. ... Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well. ... Of one whose hand, like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe. ...
The play Twelfth Night was nothing like the last play that we had to attend for this class. While You Can't Take it with You was action packed, easy to understand, and very funny, this play didn't come close to entertaining me as much. ... This may be because he has some of those qualities himself, but I"m sure if you ask him it's because he has talent. ... The blocking was done really well, as it seemed that everyone had a set thing to do at all times, and no one was left standing like a stick. ...
One would like to think there is a rational system of the duties of families, hosts and guests, and kings and subjects. ... Gloucester asks,What paper where you reading?? ... Thentis like the breath of an unfeed lawyer; you gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of nothing, nunccle?? ...
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes "bove wisdom, grace, and fear; And you all know security Is mortals" chiefest enemy". ... I believe this because just like in other Shakespeare tragedies death is what comes at the end. As you can see from the moment Hecate had made her prediction for Macbeth, his future was set. He no longer has a chance to go back and save himself, and like in many Shakespeare tragedies death is Macbeth's destiny. ...
The film opens with an announcer on a TV set describing the situation as we enter the film it's almost like the opening of a popular TV show: "last week on Dawson's Creek." ... A film that will kick you in the heart. Although it will probably not be considered a classic at par with the Zeffirelli version, I liked this film a lot more than the stiff, Coles Notes version the Italian director served up. ... = Lucas Brown ***** Excellent show, DO NOT miss it (pay the $ 15.00) **** Very good show, worth the full price but try seeing a matinee. *** Not ...
In "Othello," there are enough stupid, merciless, and backstabbing people to make you truly question Shakespeare's sanity, not that most of us haven't, but it does give you the feeling that Shakespeare is really just a highly delusional, paranoid, psychopath, you know kind of like Stalin just without the power and constant purges of society. ... This could have also been thought of as an act of honor, if you look at it from the angle of Desdemona or Othello, after all this could be seen as honoring the relationship that had been forged between the Desdemona and Othello. ... In the...
The first women that I will discuss is Bianca. Bianca would be known as a modern day prositute. By analizing her relationship with Cassio, it seems as though Bianca really wanted to have some sort of relationship with him. An example of this is in scence 3,act 4. It begins as Desdomona and Emilia ...
Hale even said, "Well, women are used to worrying over Trifles." (6) With her being so unhappy she, metaphorically speaking, lived like her bird that she called her own. ... "What say you Hermia? Be advised, fair maid; To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By him imprinted and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it. ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you had to run away. ... If the woman actually loved the man you were arranged to marry, than you ...
You can tell this by, not only seeing that the root of both these plays is falling in love, but also by some of the comments the characters make. ... Can you imagine falling in love with someone and knowing that if you want to live your life, for the decisions you want to make, you would be punished? ... In his eyes, it was like Helena "transformed" into Hermia. ...
Hanschen was masturbating and he said to Desdemona: "One of us must go-it's you or me"(Sater 30). ... Like Gloucester, Herr Stiefel suffered tremendously for his mistakes and he misjudged his son. ... With the line "And nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their Bible", Melchior and the boys wanted to show that for adults, all that you could believed was what was written in the Bible. ... It was an allusion to Romeo and Juliet; when Juliet foreshadows her own death: "My grave is like to be my wedding bed"(1.5.9). ... In Spring Awakening, this feeling ...
Caliban then continues to tell Prospero "You taught me language, and profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language."" ... Caliban, Prospero's monster like slave, also attempted his righteous freedom after he learned common language and realized how cruelly he was being treated. ... Her father made sure that she listened and obeyed him exactly by numerously asking her questions like "Dost thou hear me?... - Miranda's zombie like answers like " Sir most heedfully- can easily show her high revere for her father and anything that comes ...
He says that when thoughts of death come "over thy spirit" and makes you "grow sick at heart" you should go out "under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." ... Bryant finishes his poem by stating that one should "approach thy grave like on who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." ... Hamlet struggles as he tries to decide whether to suffer the "slings and arrows" which life throws at you or to "end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" therefore making death a s...
In Hamlet,Shakespear makes Laertes look like a "bad guy" because he wants to revenge his father by killing Hamlet,but Hamlet is doing the exact same thing to Claudius.Its like Shakespear is saying its okay for Hamlet to kill, but its not ok for Laertes to kill. ... If you read those two quotes,you will see its exactly how Shakespeare wanted to poetray each character.The two quotes seem so different coming from two people with such similar motives. ... As these men interact in this play, you can see how these differences are at the very root of the play, distinguishing it from all others....
However, in Iagos mind he is nothing like he is acting throughout this play. ... What plan you might ask? ... As you can see this is very manipulative and the thing that is mostly motivating this action is his hatred for Othello. ... The last soliloquy that I would like to point out is in act 3 scene 3. ... You see, Iago had lied and manipulated Othello so much that he made him insecure. ...
Just by understanding the meaning for lust, and wrath you know the play is going to have a major tragic event ending in death. ... These two quotes talks about how Iago plans to stay by Othello's side even though his knows that he does not like him. ... What you know. ... You shall hear more by midnight." (4:1.230-231). ... Iago is like one of them people that once they say they are going to do something they would do it. ...
Jack does not like the democracy or its rules, and Golding emphasizes that "power lay in the brown swell of his forearms; authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape" (112). ... If you"re scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him..." ...
"I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to't, I charge you. ... Hamlet makes it a goal to make sure Ophelia feels like a sex object rather than a woman with standards. ... The single sentence in the play that Shakespeare uses to change the whole course between the young adults is when Hamlet says "I did love you" (III.i.125). With the death of his father, and the odd events with the ghost Hamlet, like Ophelia, has a lot on his plate. ...
Based on the play you can argue that Polonius is a harmless, well-meaning fool or the other way around. ... Although you can still argue that he spied on Laertes because he wanted to make sure he was doing everything right. ... Especially if you plan to take it to your own advantage, because at the end it will affect Laertes himself. ... Also, if you trust somebody there is no point on spying on them. When Polonius forces Ophelia to break up with Hamlet, for the modern audience it seems like something out of place. ...
Poems can touch a person's heart like nothing else can even come close to. They can make you cry, make you laugh, love, make you forgive, they can bring an abundance of emotions in just a few lines. The most captivating of all poems are love poems, especially when they are telling you of how beautiful you are. ... So poems can touch you, they can change your views, they can totally alter your being. ...
Many more of the desirable things Katherine would like revolve around the sister than Katherine herself. ... Katherine thinks that acting like a shrew will get her the things she wants. ... She sees how her sister gains a lot of attention and figures out that her acting like a shrew is the reason that she does not receive the many pleasures her sister does. This makes Katherine calm down and act somewhat like her sister; acting as is she has been tamed. ... Her character never had a change of heart, she simply realized, "you can catch more bees with honey than vinegar." ...
His plays have inspired successful Hollywood films such "10 Things I Hate About You," based on "The Taming of the Shrew." The Indian film industry has drawn heavily on Shakespeare as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost entirely from "A Comedy of Errors" and Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. ... Critics have noted his disregard for Aristotle's rules regarding literary unities, but in the words of Pope, "To judge of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rules, is like trying a man by the laws of one country who acted under those of another"." ... To this day, expressions ...
