The portrayal of women as passive and quiet within Renaissance literature did not stray far from the image of the Renaissance woman in created works of art. Women are portrayed as disconnected from the realm of knowledge; clearly seen in literature, politics, plays, and even art. Women can be seen i...
The forbidden fruit; a beautiful fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, that God warned Adam and Eve not to eat. In their temptation, they decided to take a bite, thus resulting in severe consequences, death being the worst of them all. Many authors and story-tellers have used the fo...
King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that...
