Different hypotheses can be brought forth in the efforts to discover the truth behind whether Hamlet was insane or not. Among the hypotheses are; That he was sane all through but he only faked insanity for the success of the play; that Hamlet was less concerned with the insane part but more to his interview […]
A young writerr’s first introduction to poetry begins with the schoolyard classics: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact, as Shakespearer’s line rings. Dickenson states much madness is Divinest sense. I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.” goes Edgar Allan Poe. And while Sylvia Plath desperately questioned, Is […]
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Get startedAccording to Elaine Showalter, madness gives women an excuse for expressing anger and hostility. Madness can give women the courage to stand up for themselves in a patriarchal society. Patriarchal is an adjective that describes an area where men have authority and power over women. A patriarchal society consists of men having power over women […]
Hamlet is set in the late Renaissance of Europe, and also in a period of drastic and turbulent changes in British society. Humanism has been deeply rooted in people’s hearts, while there are many problems in the reality of British society, and the contradiction between ideal and reality is increasingly intensified. Which It advocates caring […]
In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Edna, the protagonist, is unsatisfied with her current life and her marriage. Throughout the novel we see Edna become more and more independent and fall for a young man named Robert. Edna begins to spend her days away from her husband Léonce and her three children, and she struggles with […]
Insanity is a mental problem typically characterized by various abnormal behaviors. This abnormality can contribute to the violation of conventional behavior in society making the victim become a possible threat to himself and others. Individuals who bear this habit tend to pass a certain message to others about themselves. In Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, the […]
1. Dramatic techniques * Stage directions * Stage directions are used by Nowra to reveal the personality of the characters. The overconfidence and untrustworthy personality of Nick is highlighted in the first scene when they are travelling in the dark and Nick and Nowra accidently touch Lucy and are enjoying this. * Stage directions are […]