However, the only way that you could truly be able to do this is if the topic that you were writing about was something that you either believed in or that you were interested in. ... When you take a look at what was going on in and around William Shakespeare's life, you will find that he to was influenced by what was going on in his life, and then you might also be able to understand why his works are still read today. ... The themes that you will see in Shakespeare's writing are those if love, power, greed, discrimination, hatred, and despair. ... Some people might only be able...

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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 ...

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This is shown in "Sonnet 147" where the first quatrain outlines the speaker's feelings towards love being like a disease - "My love is as a fever," depicting a self-destructive nature to it all. ... Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poems, further supporting the argument that this is his interpretation of the sonnet. In his poem "Sonnet 130" he demonstrates a clear manipulation of the idea of love, mocking the unrealistic comparisons made such as "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and presenting us with a warped view on the nature of lo...

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A mid-autumn night's dream of Love: a critical commentary on one of Carol Anne Duffy's most notable works William Shakespeare once wrote "The course of true love never did run smooth.... The concept of a dream is also well-ensconced in Van Gogh's artwork, which could imply that the poem, like the artwork, is nothing but a dream; a figment of the poet's delicious imagination. ... Shakespeare has been noted in many of his works to possess a vested interested in understanding the mechanisms that propel the substance of dreams (Camden). ... This inference emphasizes the po...

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Do you believe in fate? To answer that question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is. ... Even if their lives were ended by it, like Romeo says in Act II, scene ii, "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. ... They couldn't contradict it, how would you? ... You can't. ...

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John replied, "You"re so smart, I should have known!" ... The comparison is implicit, unlike simile where words as like or as are used. An example from Shakespeare's Macbeth (act 5, scene3): "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage." ... Without metaphors is like poetry missing a main ingredient in the main 3 course. ... For example, if a poet was trying to say that love is a beautiful experience, they might put that into a metaphor and makes a statement such as, "Love is like a beautiful flower that blooms in the mid sp...

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Here, there is a clear indication of Hemingway's style - a notably masculine style, described with words like 'hard' and 'athletic'. ... Brevity in speech and in writing is a quality that was recognized by a supremely talented wordsmith and the preeminent practitioner of English writing, William Shakespeare. ... (Shakespeare 2.2.86-92) If brevity, then, is the soul of wit (meaning here canny intelligence and perceptive thought), then Hemingway may well be the wittiest writer of the 20th century. ...

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What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...

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