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The title of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is often criticized, argued that it should be titled Brutus, as Marcus Brutus is the tragic hero. However, the title is appropriate, as Julius Caesar, though insignificant as an actor in the play since he dies in Act 3 having a minimal amount of lines, impacts the characters in … Read more
From the moment that Macbeth commits the heinous act of murdering King Duncan for his own end, Shakespeare’s play is embedded with ideas of innocence and guilt. His characters delve into their passions and ambitions, ignoring all else that matters, until we see them be defined by either their culpability or guiltlessness. And Shakespeare so … Read more
Religious Hypocrisy and its Role in Justifying Actions Religion is often a driving factor behind characters’ and peoples’ actions. However, the idea of religion is often misused to justify normally immoral actions or to clear one’s conscience of sins. For example, terrorists often justify their actions through misinterpreted religion and try to validate their decisions … Read more
Time is the most salient of themes to be found in early modern literature. The reason why is one of the most prevalent topics of poetry throughout this period was undoubtedly love. The renaissance period is immortalised by some of the poetry on love and spirituality, this is what makes time so important. Time is … Read more
The comedic play Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, a woman named Viola shipwrecks on an island and disguises herself as a man in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino hires Viola as a love messenger to Countess Olivia. Olivia, clearly not interested in Orsino, falls in love with Viola who throughout the … Read more
Euler’s identity is an equality found in mathematics that has been compared to a Shakespearean sonnet and described as “the most beautiful equation.” It is a special case of a foundational equation in complex arithmetic called Euler’s Formula, which the late great physicist Richard Feynman called in his lectures “our jewel” and “the most remarkable formula in … Read more
“If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet The car pulled up into the driveway, the gates were open, obviously, they were being expected. With a peck to his … Read more
There is no doubt that Joyce bestows us with his historical memories of British imperialism in Ireland. He unearths the concept of Irish identity which has been transfigured by imperialistic conquest. However, he cunningly does not fault solely the British Empire for the degradation of Ireland but illustrates that the Irish people themselves are no … Read more
The understanding of Shakespearean tragedy specifically the 1606 play ‘Macbeth’, written by the popular playwriter William Shakespeare, and their conventions, is crucial to the audience’s understanding of the more contemporary 1998 film ‘A Simple Plan’, directed by Sam Raimi. Both texts demonstrate the common theme of ambition for power and wealth, this theme plays a … Read more
Brutus: the protagonist of Shakespeare���s Julius Caesar From the beginning of the play, it becomes quite clear that not Julius Caesar but Brutus is the protagonist even though the title of the play is Julius Caesar. This is not difficult to prove because we can see, know and understand Brutus��� motives and the way he … Read more
Have you ever thought about where did English, as we know it, originate? Did you ever find similarities between English and other languages? We know languages change through time. In this case, we will go back . The English language has many similarities to German, even though it may not be noticed. As a very … Read more
The psychological concept of nature is the belief that personality traits are inherited through genetics, justifying actions on genetics alone. Nurture is the concept of how external environments and situations affect growth and social development, leading to further comprehensive life choices. The play Macbeth explores contrasts between characters with the protagonist and antagonist each making … Read more
Many critics find E. E. Cummings as a modernist who had reformed much of poetry writing. Cummings had been a poetry writer with some of his millennium’s best sonnets. A sonnet is from the Italian word “sonetto” which means “small song” (“Sonnet”). A sonnet is composed of fourteen lines of an iambic pentameter in poetry, … Read more
Draft Demo Internal Conflict is as difficult as external conflict Internal conflict is just as difficult as external conflict as it is able to lead to external conflict, if given enough time it can change a person to someone completely different making them unrecognizable from their former selves. The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare … Read more
Macbeth can rightly even be understood as a tragedy of imagination since only on the basis of the witches’ prophecies and their arbitrary imaginative interpretation through Macbeth, the plot, and therefore his doom, runs its course. Though the play was often, and appositely, labelled as a tragedy of power, ambition or fear1, it primarily constitutes … Read more
