Writers Essays

The fools or jesters were a common sight in the courts at and before the time of Shakespeare and they had the right to speak where everyone else had to remain silent. The jesters in Shakespeare’s plays were placed in order to entertain the audience as well as give advice …

            Regardless of it’s popularity the play, Hamlet, still remains a puzzle which scholars for centuries have been analyzing and debating.  Authors, of any genres, simply can not guarantee how their writings will be interpreted by future generations.  Much of the criticism surrounding the play Hamlet, deals with the duality …

 Oedipus Rex and Hamlet are two tragedies with regicide at the centre of their plots. The theme of the first play by Sophocles is subjection of free will to divine design. William Shakespeare’s play is also about the limitation of man in respect to the divine. The latter is however …

The first twelve stanzas of the poem reveal the extent of the speaker’s possession by what, in psychoanalytic terms, is the imago of the father—a childhood version of the father which persists into adulthood. This imago is an amalgamation of real experience and archetypal memories wherein the speaker’s own psychic …

Duke senior describes how, at Arden, he could see ‘tongues in trees”, “sermons in stones” and had no enemy except the harshness of the elements of nature- “churlish chiding of the winter’s wind”. The pastoral existence was devoid of the “painted pomp” back at court which shows the carefree, pleasurable …

There are many dichotomies that are found throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Many of the characters in the story present strong dichotomies like Pearl, Roger, and Hester who show two totally different perspectives of themselves. A dichotomy is the division of something or someone into two …

Leonardo da Vinci is labeled as the Renaissance ‘’Man of the year.” Some may ask who is Leonardo da Vinci. Well sooner or later his name will be found in history books. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Florence, Italy. He is a painter, sculptor, engineer and architect. …

Ashes to Ashes In an excerpt taken from a letter by George Bernard Shaw, Shaw displays much lighthearted irony through his use of biblical allusions, merry diction, and varying syntax in order to mirror his ironic perception of death. In contrast to the public, death to Shaw does not signal …

The title of Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, refers to Pip’s many expectations. Pip expects to inherit money, but he first has to be educated a gentleman. Pip has “great expectations” of himself and Jaggers also tells Pip that “he is a young man of great expectations”. During the time …

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ‘gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters, such as Joe, Estella, and …