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The plot and story of Shakespeare’s Othello are taken nearly entirely from Giraldi Cinthio’s tale of The Moor of Venice, a novel that many consider to have been rescued from complete irrelevance solely by its connection to the highly acclaimed Shakespearean play. Proponents of simplicity and a focus on linear plotlines may argue that Cinthio’s…

Introduction section of Curley’s wife She is newly married to Curley. Curley’s has no name on this novel because she wants recognition, attention, her own identity, and her own life. To emphasise how she has none of these things, Steinbeck doesn’t even give her a name. She is just someone’s “wife”. This shows that there…

Characters in the texts; “As you like it”, the play by Shakespeare, “Standing in the shoes of others”, the speech by Linda Burney and “Girl Interrupted” the 1999 film directed by James Mangold, find a sense of belonging under the influence of place. A physical place is often symbolic of whether a character feels accepted….

Wolfishly or George Wilson, in different ways ND in different situations, experience the difference between their desires and their realized experiences, between what they imagine for themselves and what their lives are really like. Hope is the only thing that helps these characters from moving forward with their aspirations and not be overcome by the…

The tempest a Shakespeare’s Globe theatre production in 2013 directed by Jeremy Herrin who is a renowned and well respected director, he first made his Shakespeare debut in 2011 by directing Eve Best in “Much Ado About Nothing”. The tempests is set on an un-named Mediterranean island in renaissance Europe.His ship in the play is wrecked…

The modern society faces a real problem of alienation; in the attempts to earn much money, to make a distinguished career and to lead a successful way of living, people forget about panhuman values, which were so important for the past generations, become unsociable. The phenomenon of a single person has arisen, when a young…

Through the words of Thomas C, Foster, one may never be able to read a book the same ever again. The average reader would never think that such simple details such as two characters enjoying a simple lunch together, or a man being blind in a short story, could ever mean as much as they…

Blatant human intricacies and sanctity’s natural processes coexist to serve as the primary driving force behind the storied societal stances taken in William Shakespeare’s Renaissance piece, Macbeth. Apart from its glaring positions on issues such as the corruptibility of men and human susceptibility to temptation, Macbeth‘s central focus embraces a much larger, ever-present issue: The…

In many of Shakespeare’s plays the topic of love is often discussed in great detail, however the way that these emotions are often portrayed varies with the type of play. In many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such as Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare depicts the love as passionate and usually has it end in a very dramatic…

Do you remember when you were younger and would bother one of your siblings or a friend? You know like, saying “shut up” even though your mother told you not to say that word, hitting someone, or even saying something mean to them. Remember how it was okay for you to do all of those…