Through the opening scene of Gloucester talking to Kent on the matter of Edmund, Shakespeare's use of diction in "yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making" highlights the inappropriateness of the statement he had endured to his son. ... Thus, the turmoil which is to follow through Goneril and Regan's actions is captured through Shakespeare's use of imagery and diction in "This tempest in my mindfilial ingratitude," symbolising the breaking of family ties. ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This corruption of chivalry stretches even to the language of the text itself; we see a distinct corruption of courtly diction within the novel; "using double entendres to reveal the ambiguities and duplicities concealed in words themselves," (Alstad 158). For example, he parodies courtly diction in letter 47 which includes the words "la situation où je suis en vous écrivant me fait connaitre, plus que jamais, a puissance irrésistible de l'amour," a point of dramatic irony, as it is also revealed that the naked courtesan Emilie's body has served as ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare has come to be known as arguably the finest sculptor of language through his plays and poems. Many of his plays are so remarkable, not necessarily because of the complex issues they raise, but rather the ideals they "challenge-. Shakespeare's tragedies are notorious for startin...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate