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Court Room Scandal Belmont Lady gets down and Dirty in Venice Portia, Lady from Belmont, always seemed like a sweet girl, always behaved the way her father wanted her too. Obviously her father’s death has caused some changes as recently Portia has taken some extreme risks to save her love Bassanio. Bassanio is Portia’s most…

“This patient romantic hopefulness against existing conditions symbolizes Gatsby” – Edwin Clark, 1925 for the New York Times “The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and wreckless world”- William Rose Benet, 1925 “Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness—these are the things that go into…

Theft; the act or instance of stealing ones good without their consent. It is a bad habit that is often acquired and is insidious. Once developed one often justify it with fallacious reasoning to convince themselves that it is indeed normal. This was complex Marya, from the short story Theft by Joyce Carol Oates went…

The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, takes place during the witch trials in Salem, at the time an isolated village in Massachusetts. The Crucible is concerned with who has power, the shift of that power and how people both use and abuse the concept of power on a personal, social and political leveli…

Additionally, this is the first occasion in the entirety of the play where Hamlet is aware of the truth conveyed by the ghost and his subsequent actions are rational. Hamlet deliberately portrays himself as mad and behaves foolishly (such as killing Polonium) as a result. Hamlet hopes that Alerter can comprehend that he is not…

Images of decay, in William Shakespeares Hamlet, metaphorically develop the theme of human darkness by revealing corruption, deterioration, and the inevitable destruction of Denmark. Initially, decay imagery develops the theme of evil by conveying the original corruption of Denmark. In the Elizabethan era, the royal crown is viewed as divinely touched; any action against the…

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) explores the themes of love, friendship, and loyalty in his plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600) and King Lear (1603-1606), presenting them with inconsistencies that can be better understood by considering the historical context in which he wrote. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare’s critical examination of these themes was significant for understanding the…

A play I have studied is The Merchant of Venice. Two characters in the play who have a tense relationship are Shylock and Antonio. This tension stems firstly from religious differences. In Venice at this time the Christians looked down on the Jewish people because of their religion. Shylock cannot understand the hatred of the…

George Bernard Shaw’s power as a dramatist is directly linked to hiswork as a socialist both before and during his work as a playwright. It isbecause these two forces are so inextricably tied that a working knowledgeof both his socialist ideals and his ideas concerning the theatricalprocess is not only useful, but on some levels…

Major Works Data Sheet Details of the setting (include changes in setting) Significance of setting to the meaning of the work The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston in the mid-sass’s. There are a number of different settings inside this, including Timescale and Clownishness’s quarters, the scaffold at night and day, Hester cottage, the Governor’s…