In this essay, I will be analysing and comparing the plot, history and original staging conditions between 2 classical plays I have chosen (which are Romeo and Juliet and Antigone.) Romeo and Juliet is a play about 2 families, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, who rival with each other. Romeo, a Montague falls in love with Juliet, who is a Capulet, at a party he sneaked into. It was love at first sight which leads Romeo to approach Juliet and they immediately bond. Eventually, they both marry in
Essay Question: Literary works are representative of their genre and period, to adapt them will always be detrimental to the original. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin