Essays on William Shakespeare Page 2

In “On the Tragedy of Othello”, John Hughes speaks of how the story affected him personally and how he interpreted the story in his own means. He talks of how he receives feelings of nostalgia after seeing or reading one of Shakespeare’s plays, and he loves to see how others react to the plays as…

In the play Macbeth the main character Macbeth is a tragic hero despite the large number of people who would argue that he is not. Macbeth is a noble and highly renown which is one of the five characteristics of being a tragic hero. One example of him being highly renown is that at the…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet “How Do I Love Thee?” was published in 1850 in the collection The Sonnets From the Portuguese (Avery and Stott). The predominant themes of the poem are the love and the admiration the speaker feels for the unnamed lover. Similarly, the main themes of William Shakespeare’s poem “Shall I Compare Thee…

Welcome to the next edition of ‘thoughts on Ian Johnston’s thoughts’ and this time the focus is not on “Hamlet” but the Hamlet spin off created by Tom Stoppard known as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” From the remarks Ian Johnston made on the play “Hamlet” as a whole with such unusual but elaborate opinions,…

Throughout William Shakespeare’s novel Hamlet, he presents characters like Gertrude and Ophelia to highlight the objectification and subjectivity of women set in the Elizabethan era. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the playwright constantly objectifies women in an attempt to highlight men’s oversexualization of women and their inherited feelings of superiority throughout society. The two main female characters,…

Within the tightly plotted play, “Hamlet”, William Shakespeare devises a series of dark twists. And turns for his protagonist to follow, satisfying the genre of Revenge- Tragedy. And in turn generating a harrowing story which still today captivates an audience of all classes. The concept of revenge is mainly pursued by the character Young Hamlet….

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet is commanded by his father’s ghost to avenge his murder at the hands of his uncle Claudius. Hamlet does not act immediately to get his revenge, even when he is presented the perfect opportunity to do so. Throughout the play, it is demonstrated that the young prince’s hesitation is reasonable….

In my mind, the primary theme of Hamlet is revenge and betrayal. To me it appears that, throughout the whole play, someone is always trying to get back at someone or is using someone for their own benefit. This theme has always been a common one among playwrights and even modern screenplay writers because it…

In the story Hamlet we have a young man who is seeking revenge for the death of his father. The person who was responsible for the death of Hamlet’s father was Claudius. Hamlet had opportunities to kill Claudius, and even in the end, when he was most assuredly going to put an end to Claudius’…

Revenge is an important theme in William Shakespeares Hamlet. When someone wants revenge they are retaliating in a violent manor to injure another individual. The person who is retaliating cannot control there feelings, so they act out to rid themselves of pressure, or in Hamlets case they are acting out because of the loss of…