Play Essays

Use this graphic organizer to collect your thoughts about characterization in Macbeth. As you read each scene, record what you learn about the character. Add the line from the play that supports your idea. Lady Macbeth: Observations Text Support Looks Ambitious and serious to do what it takes to get …

(i) “In King Lear honour and loyalty triumph over brutality and viciousness.” Write your response to this statement supporting your answer with suitable reference to the text. OR (ii) “In King Lear the villainous characters hold more fascination for the audience than the virtuous ones.” Discuss this statement with reference …

1).  The three witches are the catalyst of the play and they promote the theme-Fate and Free will, they set up the dark mysterious tone in the play. First of all, the witches accurately predict significant events in Macbeth’s life: they hail Macbeth as three things: Thane of Glamis, thane …

Step 1: Observe In this scene, Shakespeare gives us the sequence of the events that occurred between the Doctor, the Gentlewoman and Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is wearing a white nightgown in this picture, she appears to be slowly walking down the stairs, almost as if to be careful. The …

Introduction: It was such a time when only the witches, wolves, and ravishers were awake. Macbeth was holding a dagger in his hand. He softly stole in the room where his guest King Duncan lay. But all of a Sudden it happened. He thought, he saw another dagger in the …

“Frailty, thy name is woman!” Hamlet; Hamlet is angry with his his mother for re marrying as quickly as a he did. He is saying that a woman changes her mind quickly​. “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” ​Hamlet; it was …

Gothic literature demonstrates the consequences of disrupting the natural order of things. Consider the texts you have read in the light of this comment. Gothic literatures have characters who disrupt the natural order, and ends up with consequences, which can be seen as negative or positive. Macbeth (pre-gothic), Wuthering Heights …

What is self-sacrifice? It is to sacrifice everything you care about to go be who you actually are. The protagonist in A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer, not only sacrifices herself, but also her family. Nora sacrifices the security and comfort of her home, while also giving …

A Streetcar Named Desire, a play by Tennessee Williams, takes place in New Orleans in the mid-1940s. It follows the lives of Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, and Blanche DuBois and the story about a woman coming to visit her sister, which ends up going just as bad as any family …

The National Hockey League (NHL) has brought the world an exciting sport that attracts thousands of fans each year in addition they bring into the sport exciting passionate players that increases the excitement. Year over year NHL increased their fan base in addition to the number of players and teams. …