Play Essays

1. Apparition Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Character: this quote reveals Macbeth’s overconfident character. Macbeth becomes overconfident as a result of this apparition because he interprets it to mean that he is safe until Birnam wood moves to his palace …

Act I Questions Act I Scene 1 : Horatio’s opinion of the ghost before and after he sees it, is that the ghost is Old Hamlet, the dead king. He looks just like Hamlet’s father that was supposedly bitten by a poisonous snake. This ghost was dressed in armor, head …

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses his minor characters to enhance the conflict. Benvolio and Tybalt alike contribute to the complications that ultimately result in the plays’ tragedy. Benvolio plays the eternal peacekeeper, while Tybalt incessantly agitates the situation. Benvolio is a peacekeeper. For example, when Tybalt asks “why are …

Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” unravels the powerful pressure that society places upon an individual, because at the heart of this play is the society of Messina which powerfully influences the characters and the way they live their lives. The Messinian society of the 16th Century is in stark contrast …

Othello by william shakespeare is a tragedy thought to have been written in the 1600s, and is undoubtedly one of shakespeare’s most celebrated pieces of work. The play deals with many themes such as jealousy and deception, and good and evil, all of which are centered around the tragic hero …

Depicting the real historical events of the 16th Century, Robert Bolt’s two-act play A Man for All Seasons was initially brought onto stage in the 1960s, and is still widely performed and studied today. The playwright, Bolt’s excellent manipulation of theatrical elements contributes a big part to the play’s lasting …

The poem Inferno is about a man who has “lost the path that does not stray” (Inferno, Canto I, line 3) where “the path” represents the path to Heaven. Dante, having strayed from the path, is in danger of being sent to Hell. When Beatrice, whom Dante loved before her …

The great Gatsby book started with a man telling us his father advised him never to criticize anyone , he said his father told him he should remember that all this people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had and his father thought him how to be …

As the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s theories of the unconscious mind and the act of repression have helped shape psychology. Many of Freud’s ideas best explain several of Prince Hamlet’s actions and thoughts in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Long before psychologist Sigmund Freud wrote about the power of …

The oxford dictionary describes an avenger as a person who sets out to punish or hurt somebody in return for something bad or wrong that has been done to them, their family or friends. Such a motive can be argued as the fuel for Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras. In the …