Essays on William Shakespeare Page 96

The following essay will focus on three pre 1914 sonnets and I will explore the themes of love and loss within them. The poems that I will be looking at are, ‘Sonnet 71’ by William Shakespeare, ‘Remember’ by Christina Georgina Rossetti and ‘I Am’ by John Clare. All three poems agree that love and loss…

When I first started this unit on ‘love’ I thought it was going to be dreary as love poems are not a category, which interest me, and I don’t take pleasure in doing work like this, as it can be embarrassing. ‘Love’ is about caring and liking someone; like a boyfriend would care for his…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of Shakespeare’s many masterpieces. All of Shakespeare’s plays have similar themes such as love, discord and harmony, age and youth, mythology, magic and the natural world. An introduction to the major themes of the play can be recognised in the opening scene and it is these themes that make…

Much Ado About Nothing is a play about love, relationships, truth and illusion, reality and disguise, trickery, deception, male honor and female virtue, and villainy. This play set in Messina, Sicily and is based around about the contrasting relationships of two couples – the witty and unconventional couple of Benedick and Beatrice, who are described…

Romeo and Juliet is an Elizabethan tragedy set in the Italian city of Verona, written by Shakespeare around 1591 and is one of the most famous plays of the time. In Act 1 Scene 5, the Lord Capulet is throwing a party in order for his daughter, Juliet, to fall in love with a man…

Through the play, Juliet’s treatment by Romeo and father can be quite surprising and ambivalent. Shakespeare portrays this by the use of language and different actions they use towards Juliet. Her father, Lord Capulet comes across as a considerate and concerned father. Shakespeare shows the audience this caring nature towards Juliet in the first act…

On another part of the island, Trinculo and Stephano are busy getting drunk and introducing alcohol to the clueless Caliban, which creates humour in the scene. Stephano manipulates Caliban, who then volunteers to be a slave to Stephano, rather than Prospero. Ariel enters in an invisible form as Caliban reveals his plan for Stephano to…

How does Shakespeare present the use and abuse of power in ‘The Tempest’? Comment on the use of language, ideas and stagecraft. Elizabethan society’s understanding of colonisation and natives is reflected in the play ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare. Elizabethan’s were very positive towards colonisation and the idea of usurpation, and were neither very knowledgeable when…

Initially Macbeth is hesitant and not completely confident that he should commit the murder of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth then makes him feel guilty that he does in fact desire Duncan dead and is reluctant and fearful of working towards achieving that. She uses the proverb “Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage? ” wherein…

In the play MacBeth, Act 3, Scene 4 is a major turning point in the ploy. This scene, a banquet in the palace, is celebrating his coronation as King. The events in this scene form a turning point for MacBeth, Lady MacBeth and the Lords. In addition, this scene sets in motion the subsequent events…