Within the Shakespearian pastoral romance The Tempest and the film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, discovery is portrayed as a thought-provoking, transformative and serendipitous process. Both texts explore discovery through the lens of colonialism and exploration, providing a detailed insight into the ramifications of individual’s attempts to instill power and control over other human beings. In addition, both texts explore the notion of challenging authority through an exploration of the
emphasis during their fall from grace and making them tragic characters. Shakespeare’s females, however, were given the comic roles, with Cordelia’s exceptionally written character given similar prominence to Lear’s fool. According to this analysis, Shakespeare’s point of view was “necessarily male,” and that there was a challenging other that was female. The gender divide among Shakespeare’s characters offer critics with a different analysis into the genre-bending Shakespeare, who is often described
fully to life, taking it from the third dimension to the fourth, making the most of the audience’s ears as well as their eyes and taking them from mundane reality to the hyper-reality that is the magical, mystical realm of theatre. Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a prime example of a play that brilliantly uses the power of sound to its full potential, creating scenes of despair and horror in one act to moments of illusion and enchantment in another, taking the audience on an emotional, entertaining journey
Twelfth Night and the features of Shakespeare’s comedy This essay will discuss two main features appearing in the selected scenes in Twelfth Night, respectively the fool and the mistaken identity. The first part of the analysis will consider the division of the fool and its contribution to the comic effect. The second part will consider the mistaken identity and how it influences the comedy. ‘Fool’ is one of the important elements in Shakespeare’s comedy, creating comic effects. From act 3 scene