Shakespeare Macbeth Doth Murder Sleep We all sleep. That is why sleep is so relatable even if what is going on is not relatable at all. When we sleep, we are resting and recuperating or recovering from a long days exertion and regaining our strength for a new fresh day. Although, when we sleep, we are often quite vulnerable and in a state in which it would be easy for another to potentially attack or harm. Some even use the term sleep in relation with death or near-death. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth
and lyrical prose found within Shakespeare’s Macbeth was destined to be preformed upon the stage. While countless theatrical adaptations have appeared since Shakespeare crafted the play, recent cinematic interpretations penetrate the crepuscular world of Macbeth and illume to the audience the chillingly nefarious nature of Macbeth and his morally ambiguous cohorts. In 2010, director Rupert Goold unsettled audiences with his modern portrayal of Macbeth as a brutal tyrant, reminiscent of Stalin and
HAMLET was the play, or rather Hamlet himself was the character, in the intuition and exposition of which I first made my turn for philosophical criticism, and especially for insight into the genius of Shakspeare, noticed. This happened first amongst my acquaintances, as Sir George Beaumont will bear witness; and subsequently, long before Schlegel had delivered at Vienna the lectures on Shakspeare, which he afterwards published, I had given on the same subject eighteen lectures substantially the
Women in film and other media are often eroticized, given their typical placement in the patriarchal order of society as sexual objects and status symbols. To that end, one of the greatest fears to a man who benefits from the privileges of such a society is the self-assured, erotic femme fatale, a highly sexualized, commoditized figure who often finds herself manipulating men for her own ends. While this seems evil on the surface, there are much more complicated motivations behind these figures than