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The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare, an English poet, is about forbidden love. The play focuses on two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, whose families are feuding enemies. This forces the young lovers to marry in secret and betray their families. In revenge to his friends death Romeo murders Tybalt who is Juliet’s…

The Harlem Renaissance, 2011)Democracy: By Longboats Hughes Democracy will not accommodate, this yearn ever Through compromise and fear. ‘ have as much right As the other fellow hast Stanton my two feet And own the land. ‘ tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. ‘ do not…

William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure regarding to his personal history. There are only two primary sources for information: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, around April 23, 1564. Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26,…

J. Wright contends in his cartoon (The Age 13/5/01) that the public’s craving for constant surveillance anticipates that there is something quite wrong with us. He chooses to portray the public as exhibitionists, who do not care that somebody, “Big Brother”, is watching them 24/7. We see that there are many cameras in each cell,…

Lots of writers try to envisage the future. They usually write it as a distopian environment. It has even become a literary tradition to write from the point of view of a rebel trying to break free from his distopian world. Usually the writers imagine that the world has been taken over by technology, like…

I am comparing the two plays ‘Wake Up’ and ‘Macbeth’. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in 1606, but it was set in around 1040. ‘Wake Up’, our devised piece, was written in 2005, where the play is also set. Macbeth is a Shakespearian tragedy, set loosely around the time of 1040. There are clear themes of suspicion, plotting,…

Discuss the role of the play- within- a- play in Act V of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Does the Pyramus and Thisbe story have any relevance to the main story, or is it simply a comical interlude? What effect does the mechanicals production of their play have on the tone of the play as a…

`A Mid Summer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare How do events support Lysander’s claim that “The course of true love never did run smooth”? In this essay I will give my views on the quote: `The course of true love never did run smooth,’ a statement made by Lysander to his love Hermia. I will…

What messages does Camus have for the readers and why do we think the book was popular with the people of his generation? Albert Camus was a man of many great potential prospects. In his books he captures the absurdity of living and “the idea that human life has no redeeming meaning of its purpose”…

Charles Dickens was a Victorian writer. He was born in Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. When he was twelve his father, who was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea debtor’s prison. Dickens had to leave school at this early age to work in the Warren’s blacking factory,…