In Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, Branagh takes a minor character who didn’t have much to contribute to the plot and uses his song as an important part of the plot development in the movie. The song is used three times throughout the movie during central parts—the beginning, the middle, and the […]
In the play Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare presents true love as the play’s centerpiece. Everything in this play revolves around the idea of true love and how it greatly affects a few certain characters. In this play, we see four characters, Claudio, Benedick, Hero, and Beatrice affected by the strong influence of true love. […]
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The paper deal with the various features of Browning’s Poetry and how it manifests itself in My Last Duchess, subtly encapsulating the characteristics of the Victorian era. Browning portrays all forms of art as self revelatory and reflective of social constructions. In this poem, the setting is based on Renaissance Italy, where a Duke is […]
Written in 1845, Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” conveys the opinions of a wealthy nobleman addressing a marriage broker about his late wife’s painting. During the Victorian era, women were viewed more as property than real humans capable of emotions. Men controlled every facet of a relationship; equality in marriage was relatively unheard of. […]
“My Last Duchess” is a poem approximately dependent on noteworthy occasions and notable figures composed by Robert Browning. We are to suspect that the add shouting out “My Last Duchess” is Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara who lived in the sixteenth century. “My Last Duchess” is composed as a sensational verse or speech in light […]
Much Ado About Nothing is a play that was originally written by Shakespeare and was eventually turned into a hit movie in 1993 by Kenneth Branagh. It features two main characters that are shown deeply throughout the movie, Benedick and Beatrice. These two are shown from the beginning to have feelings for one another, and […]
Most people think of the characters from the short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” when they think of Washington Irving. They envision a headless horseman with a pumpkin for a head riding his ghostly horse through the forest or maybe a little old man waking after a long, deep sleep […]
Sherman Alexie was born on October 7th, 1966 on an Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He is a member of the Spokane tribe which is a major influence on his work and his first hand experiences has made him a notable author. In his early life, he was operated on to treat hydrocephalus that he […]
In “Hamlet”, a play written by Shakespeare, there are many things that point to one of the main themes, which is revenge. Their also is many characters that can be compared and contrasted to Hamlet and revenge, but the one character that has the most prominent comparisons is Laertes. Hamlet and Laertes try to avenge […]
In “The Things They Carried,” physical items such as weighted jackets, grenade launchers, and M-60s sit atop Vietnam soldiers’ shoulders to equal a weight difficult for most to imagine. This tangible weight however hardly compares to the emotional baggage such as grief, terror, longing, confusion, and guilt that the soldiers bear. Tim O’Brien actively uses […]
The people who vote in favor of the reasons why Huck Finn ought not be educated in schools consistently notice the topic of racism.The banning of the Huckleberry Finn in light of its racial portrayal just outcomes in racial lines among specialists and the guardians. In the end, the understudies neglect to figure out how […]
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, individuality is denied and social conformity is law. Within this society, Bernard Marx experiences both internal and external conflict. It is clearly evident that Bernard is seen as the misfit since his introduction. Fanny Crowne frequently refers to Bernard having too much “alcohol in his blood surrogate”, giving an […]
There are several characters that could be blamed for the death of these two young lovers, however, one of the characters that’s to a large extent responsible for their deaths is Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence has a vital role where he is seen as a man of God and is trusted by many in Verona. […]
Have you ever sought out to change something for the superior but concluded with making it worse? Written by one of the most celebrated English authors and journalists in 1994, “Animal Farm” is one of George Orwell’s greatest satirical novels, where animals take over their farm. Orwell’s literature is committed to informing the flagrant truth […]
The novel takes place in June 1640. Hester Prynne is a young, “widowed” mother who resides in the Puritan settlement of Boston, Massachusetts. The author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. Hawthorne quickly brings attention to the harsh actions of the townspeople towards Prynne and her vivid Scarlet Letter embroidered into her […]
In the book Hamlet, there are multiple motifs present. Motifs are a recurrent image, word, object, phrase, or action that helps the reader understand the main theme or ideas the author is portraying in books. One motif that appears the most is about weeds, growth, flowers, nature. This motif correlates and puts an emphasis on […]
“The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who feels unhappy and trapped within her marriage and becomes free when she hears the news of her death then dies when she realizes he not dead. The first sentence foreshadows the end story by talking about her heart condition and making the ending sound believable. […]
Five years prior to the actual Great Gatsby’s beginning, Jay Gatsby had studied how to behave as one of the rich from Dan Cody. Until going to fight in the First World War, Jay Gatsby was posted in Louisville, Kentucky, He encountered Daisy Fay in Louisville, a beautiful young heiress who is ten years younger […]
In all his plays, Shakespeare never gave so much weight on female roles and characters, as he always took a specific approach towards gender dynamics. However, in Hamlet, the poet gave to Ophelia a strong, yet graceful power. Captured by this mysterious and bold creature, directors like Zeffirelli (1990), Branagh (1996), and Almereyda (2000) depicted […]
The power of persuasion is a dominant and influential tool which can easily be misused for personal benefit. Lies and deceits are becoming more common in society, with individuals masking their true intentions. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, the character Iago is no different from those cunning human beings. He preys on and triggers other characters’ […]
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou is one among several poems in her collection of poems titled Still I Rise. It is a poem about adversity but, more importantly, it is a poem about rising from adversity. It is easy to decipher this from the very lines of the poem. She talks about being trodden […]
The concept of good vs. evil originates from the ancient tales of Beowulf. In Beowulf, the clash between good and evil is the main point. The main character in the poem is Beowulf who represents all that is good in a legendary battle against Grendel, the monster who represents all evil. Beowulf is the chosen […]
Published in 1937, Of Mice and Men is revered as one of Steinbeck’s most essential and influential novels. Narrating a couple of days in the lonesome lives of two traveling laborers, George Milton and Lennie Small, Of Mice and Men spectacles the crushing impact that the Great Depression had on many American’s capabilities to thrive […]
Imagery in literature is an author’s use of evocative and descriptive language to add depth to their work in order to draw more emotion from the reader or audience. William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language and the world’s greatest dramatist makes heavy use of imagery in most of his […]
Just like the often-quoted line from the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song says, “And I’ll be…taking care of business every day,” the warders had a job to do and this particular day was no different, or was it for George Orwell? (Metrolyrics) In the essay entitled, “A Hanging” the author, George Orwell, writes of a Hindu man […]
The things the men carry help define them as individuals because some of the things they carried showed their personality. For example, Jimmy Cross carried a pebble with him that the girl he loves sent to him as a good luck charm. Kiowa was a devout Baptist, so he carried a new testament. Dave Jenson […]
The American poet Linda Pastan published ‘To a Daughter Leaving Home’ in her 1998 collection Carnival Evening. The form of the poem is crucial here- the one long sentence, made up of several clauses, represents the different stages of the bicycle lesson and hence the growing up process. And, as with many memories of family, […]
It is widely accepted that men are authoritative and influential, even society expects men to represent themselves in this way. Likewise, In an essay \’ being a man\’ the author, Paul Theroux tries to draw attention that being a man is remarkably terrible with all the qualities, that society wants to see in a man. […]
From an economic boom to flappers emerging to prohibition, The Great Gatsby represented the roaring 20’s- and anticipated the misfortune that would arrive next. Born into poverty, “James Gatz” was determined to become successful. Chasing after the lifestyles of the rich, James changed his name to “Jay Gatsby”. Soon the millionaire upheld the behavior of […]
Animal Farm has been labeled by some as a dystopia or anti-utopia. “It is obvious that Orwell in Animal Farm set out with positive hopes of creating utopia. However, instead of projecting a utopia, he has projected an anti-utopia, a nightmarish world with a regime clothed in the beast fable of Animal Farm”. This idea […]
