Life Essays

Claudio’s gullibility and harmful obsession with his own reputation makes him a real difficulty for some readers. Andrew Lang called him, for example, ‘a hateful young cub.’ This is because Claudio is so insecure about himself that he has to conform to society’s rules and expectations. During the Elizabethan era, …

In Much Ado About Nothing, the young lovers Claudio and Hero are pulled apart by the devastating forces of malicious rumours. After having been denounced as a ‘common stale’ at her own wedding in IV:i, Hero collapses and is taken for dead. Claudio, upon learning that Hero was never guilty …

The purpose of the essay is to show how Shakespeare portrays relationships and how he uses the theme love and marriage through out the play. I will also analyse how a modern audience would interpret the play. Much Ado About Nothing shows us different sorts of relationships between men and …

Throughout all of Shakespeare’s comedies, there is no other character like Benedick. This is because Benedick undergoes a transformation like no other. The Character of Benedick appears in Shakespeare’s comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing.” Benedick is a good, honorable man, but his only problem is that he does not like …

The film turns on the Claudio and Hero love plot, a young love based on obsession, even though this is less interesting than the Beatrice and Benedict sub-plot, which celebrates a more mature love which is based on independence and intelligence. This plot include ‘testing’ of love: Which we are …

Shakespeare uses various devices and character portrayals to successfully make the opening of Twelfth Night entertaining and interesting for the audience. In this essay I am going to analyse Twelfth Night and find out how Shakespeare achieves this. Shakespeare starts the play with a speech from Orsino. This speech is …

Dear Aunt and Uncle I am writing this letter as a response to your request to give my view on the home schooling of your son. I have thought about both sides of the argument and will tell you what I have found in the paragraphs below. In the end …

The Nazi Police State was one of the key fundamental parts of the Nazi Party and its reign that allowed them to pursue the Nazism ideas that they did. The Nazi Police State was created out of a combination of old, traditional systems and additions the Nazis made to them …

To define the words ‘strong’ and ‘character’, the dictionary offers these definitions; Strong – 1- having great power, energy, effect, flavour etc. 2 – not easy to break, damage or defect. The word strong can be used in many contexts. It relates to Mother Courage and Paulina as I am …

“The Winter’s Tale” explores a wide variety of themes such as art and nature, disguise and reality, justice and injustice, but the most prominent theme is definitely the struggle for power between men and women, especially when considering the historical context of the play. Since The Winter’s Tale’s creation it …