Task Title – Explore how Shakespeare demonstrates human foibles through the themes of love and deception. Both playwrights, Shakespeare and Wilde, explore the theme of love in their plays. They show us the ridiculous things that people do for love. Love is also a good theme to write about as it reveals human weaknesses and foibles. Twelfth Night or What you Will, was written in the 1600s’ by William Shakespeare, whereas The Importance of Being Earnest was written in the 1890’s by Oscar Wilde. The
The importance of Ophelia and Gertrude in the play is suppressed by the male characters. Ophelia plays the role of a helpless follower who only wants to please the men in her life. She heavily depends on pleasing her father, and even makes the personal sacrifice
William Shakespeare was one of mystery and fear. Much about the stars, the Earth and the creatures that inhabit it was unknown. When good things happened, the cause was God’s grace; when bad things happened, or when people acted badly, the cause must surely then be the Devil. Some Shakespearean scholars theorize that in the epic tragedy “Othello”, the villain Iago, may actually be Satan represented in human form. Surely, that is not the case. Clearly a student of human nature, Shakespeare, rather
store of knowledge are William Shakespeare, a sixteenth century playwright and poet, and Walt Whitman, a nineteenth century poet and philosopher. There more famous works, such as Leaves of Grass and Romeo and Juliet are some of the greatest writings in the history of the written word. However, this does not undermine the importance of some of their less well known works. The texts of “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “Sonnet 30” by William Shakespeare are similar in many ways, and yet
I believe that Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar as a way to talk about how he saw the human race, what they were capable of, and what he has seen or experienced. Although the way he has seen humans and the way he has shown his thoughts through this story, I believe that the story serves to be more of a lesson than some babble of the humans. Therefore, this story can relate to the present mistakes made by the world today and uses the themes in the story to further relate to it. The story
Romeo and Juliet,” written by William Shakespeare, the constant reminder that Romeo and Juliet can never reveal their love for each other because of their last names become a key obstacle while the drama progresses. The names Capulet and Montague are names of the feuding families in the story, which ironically, the two lovers are on opposing sides. In the fifteen-hundreds, names held power, status, and some form of symbolism. Names today don’t contain much importance, albeit with some exceptions for famous
“It's almost required with major artists that there's some [use of] dualities. And I've got duality everywhere.” -George Michael. Michael explains the importance of dualities in writing and art with this quote. He shows that they have great values and are critical to have in order to make a story more interesting and exciting for the reader. Without the element of dualities there is no way the plot can move along. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet the dualities of love and
Shakespeare’s engagement with political machinations of the state. The political instability within England, which resulted from War of the Roses, has been influential to Shakespeare's text. At the turn of the 15th century with the rise of humanism, Shakespeare responds to the shift in the political paradigms by portraying Richard as a tyrannical king, and exposing the way the state manipulates politics. Richard’s statement “Simple, plain Clarence, I do love thee so, that I will shortly send thy soul to
relevance to Shakespeare’s King Lear is relevant to modern day times. One of the reasons why Shakespeare and his texts have been so relevant in modern times is the illumination of the human experience. Shakespeare is able to summarise a range of human emotions in simple yet powerful verse which is the greatest reason for his long-lasting popularity. No author in present time has made more beloved passages than Shakespeare. This is highlighted by the themes, madness, justice and family which are evident in
grew with the form of music and storytelling. We find that art builds on art, creating new wonders from what people have found in between. Since the very beginning of time, the arts have been at the heart of many cultures, from ancient times until today. The first cultures had art at their core, starting with the cavemen. They created cave paintings, using them to depict hunts, as well as record general history and events. These cave paintings gave a form of communication between