Play Essays

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth revolves around the downfall of several key characters during the course of this tragic play. Security or overconfidence is a feeling of freedom from danger, care, or fear. When one feels invincible, they may lose all rational thought in their heads as well as in their hearts. …

Years, decades and centuries have past and yet a play written in the 16th century is still related to how we live our life today, in the 21st century. Romeo and Juliet may have things that can’t possibly exist today but many fail to realize the significance the play has. …

In the Elizabethan Era, a society dominated by men, women had little input. Common rights and abilities of our time such as voting, going to school, and achieving steady jobs were impossible for the average Elizabethan woman to achieve. This disparity of power prominently appears in the works of the …

The story of “Macbeth” can be broken down into three separate identities: individual identity, dual identity, and social identity. Individual identity is Macbeth independently thinking he knows himself. Dual identity is Macbeth and, his love interest, Lady Macbeth being united and acting as one during the play. Social identity is …

In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, we see a lot of evil; we see evil people and we see evil acts. We can see that – almost – everyone has an evil desire within them. However, only a really evil person acts on that impulse and commits something morally wrong. An evil deed …

Lying is to delude one, for the purpose of concealing reality from that person. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, characters like Polonius and Claudius are lead to their destruction by their selfish lies. In Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, Marlow’s great lie, unselfish in nature, ensures the well being of Kurtz’s intended. Upon …

In the play “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare, is a play that revolves around tragedy and revenge and this revenge leads to Hamlets death and people that were close to him. Hamlet’s pursuit to revenge his father’s death blinded his morals and intelligence and lead to his untimely death. It …

Shakespeare’s literature has given his audience the grounds to believe that his tragic hero Hamlet is somewhat of a misogynist. A misogynist can be defined as a man who shows exaggerated aversion towards women. The word “misogynist” comes from ancient Greek words “misein” meaning hate and “gyne” meaning women. Hamlet’s …

Tybalt is a proud and patriotic Capulet cousin, his name reflects his personality (tybalt means the prince of cats) he is a rare swordsman and fights with honor, although he does take personal insults very far he can be viewed in two ways, first as a racist, prejudiced against the …

Courage by definition is “state or quality of mind and or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery,”(Word Dictionary). In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, we compare and contrast the two characters, Claudius and Hamlet, and study how each does and does …