TOPIC: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. THESIS STATEMENT: One of the elements that can be compared in the plays “Hamlet”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Agamemnon” is hamartia. We will understand how hamartia ties the plots together; analyse and compare. Hamlet, Prufrock, and Agamemnon’s roles in each of the plays; and evaluate how their personalities affect the outcome of their lives and
The plays “Oedipus the king” and “Hamlet” have many similarities that make them a perfect pair to be compared. The two plays are written in a highly poetic language that makes them interesting to the reader. They are also dramatic in structure with Sophocle’s representing an ancient Greek drama while Hamlet represents drama in twentieth century. Due to this difference in time the two plays differ in many aspects. This paper will compare and contrast different aspects of the plays in terms of theme
Macbeth as a Tragic Hero What turns an otherwise exceptional man into a tragic hero? Perhaps ambition? A personality flaw, such as ambition, can change a good person into a tragic hero. Qualities of a tragic hero consist of being a noble man, having a personality flaw, and learning something important in the end. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth fulfills the requirements of the stereotypical tragic hero. The first qualities of a tragic hero that Macbeth displays are being a character
Karl Marx wrote in his Communist Manifesto, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (4). A critical aspect of the relationship between such classes is the way the socioeconomic elite conduct themselves and how their actions are viewed by the rest of society. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald depict the socioeconomic elite acting with indiscretion and out of self indulgence. Both pieces
characters until the only thing left is pulp.” This quote explains how the characters in Titus Andronicus will stop at nothing, which is a common characteristic in another Shakespeare tragedy, “Othello”. In “Othello”, Iago is the developed villain of Aaron. Both are composed of complete evil, but Iago is “refined” evil- he knows how to cleverly manipulate. Aaron, however, does not expose the same keen characteristics as Iago. Although Iago can be seen as a human, Aaron cannot be even seen as humane by the