Yet this brilliant soldier and leader is transformed from a rational, honourable man, into a malevolent creature at the hands of a monster best described as a "motiveless malignity" - Iago. ... It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on- (3.3.167) Othello's jealousy of the handsome Cassio is paramount to his downfall. ...
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the hero reveals his inner conflicts and pensive attitude through his long, drawn out soliloquies. Hamlet is a static character whose thoughts never dramatically change throughout the course of the play. For this reason, we can examine the first of his soliloquies and use...
Othello vs. Aaron Shakespeare used the idea of a person being black to great effect in two of his plays. These were Othello and Titus Andronicus. Each of these plays are violent tragedies in which there is much suffering, back stabbing, and loss of life. However in each play the usage of...
William Shakespeare is a literary legend; composing dozens of plays, poems and short stories - mostly about love, incest, murder, tragedy and infidelity. The playwright had a way of constructing many complex characters and it's from his genius that we have such characters as Hamlet, Othello, Gertru...
Othello vs. Aaron Shakespeare used the idea of a person being black to great effect in two of his plays. These were Othello and Titus Andronicus. Each of these plays are violent tragedies in which there is much suffering, back stabbing, and loss of life. However in each play the usage of...
To Be or Not To Be? Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year t...
No one questions the fact that William Shakespeare is a pure genius when it comes to creating immortal characters whose characteristics transcends those of the normal supernatural beings, but most students of literature agree that his uses of the supernatural aren't merely figments of his creative i...
William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear, composed around 1603, was first performed in 1605. The play is about kingship, and was written during a period when the monarchy was of central importance. In this time, the throne was being handed over from Elizabeth 1 to James 1, when King Lear was written and performed, in which James 1 extensively theorized the political role of the monarch as absolute ruler with divine right. Shakespeare's King Lear is considered to be not only one of the greatest tragedies written and performed, but as the primary representative of a great age o...
