A Comparative Analysis of Shakespeares "Shall I Compare Thee and Donne's The Flea

In the blank space before the third stanza we infer that the woman has killed the flea. He is upset at the woman because she killed the flea and wants to know how this flea was guilty. The tone of the poem changes in this stanza because now, he is chastising her for her sins. He is even cool and harsh when he says, “Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me, /Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee” (26-27) He then concludes by explaining that having sex with him would be just as trivial as killing the flea.

William Shakespeare wrote plays that covered the breadth of human experience, which seem to have transcended the restraints of age because they contain universal themes. His body of his work is comprised of genres of plays, which varied from tragedies to comedies.

In the final stanza the woman kills the flea. Unsurprisingly, the very dramatic Donne labels the death as “cruel and sudden” (3.1). He goes on to say that she has “purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence” (3.2). What he means by this is that the flea has done nothing more than suck her blood, yet she has ended its life. Since the mingling of blood is representative of sex, it implies that the act of sex is

William Shakespeare is a famous playwright and poet whose pieces are still well known in the modern world. Some of these well known pieces are his sonnets written about love. “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are examples of these love poems. These sonnets convey Shakespeare’s love in different ways. “Sonnet 18” expresses superiority over another subject, and “Sonnet 130” expresses uniqueness. Although the attitudes of “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” are different, Shakespeare uses comparisons, exaggerations, and vivid words to portray the message of love in both sonnets.

Shakespeare has a unique way of describing each character from his plays. Typically, it is easy to share similar qualities with at least one them. Ingrid Fortozo, from Dr. Whetton's eighth-period English class, shares the same personality trait as one of the characters from Hamlet. Ingrid is protective like Polonius from Hamlet because they both always look after their loved ones.

As our world spins and spins, the older the story of Hamlet gets. It’s always interesting to look or read something that is old, because it makes us wonder what it was like and how things were different. Reading stories such as Hamlet, a great story written by William Shakespeare, gives us a large imaginary image of what it could of been like for him, or others. In this topic, I will talk about how our timeline vs. Shakespeare/Hamlet’s timeline and how we are so eager to read a book that shows history.

Shakespeare arguably had some of the most bewildering language in all of literacy. His creativity and English ingenuity granted him to be considered the greatest writer of the English Language. Unfortunately, Pete Langman feels Shakespeare is far too difficult for the majority of schoolchildren. He feels that making them struggle through it just because Shakespeare is this great, shinning cultural icon simply alienates them, makes them hate the man, hate the plays, while giving them the sneaking suspicion that high culture excludes them. Langman feels that everyone might do better if they embrace the fact that Shakespeare is tough and accept the fact that it’s too difficult for some people and should be taught until they reach the

There are several poems written about love, romance, and lust during the sixteen and seventeenth century. All of these poems have a different style to them, but most share one theme; the goal to seduce their love. John Donne was no except to this common theme. Although Donne was raised in a devout Catholic household, his poetry would say he tried to commit a few sins in his lifetime, and even tried to have others to commit them with him. Some of his poems depict the chase of girl only to receive opposite feelings from her. An example of this is his poem, “The Flea.” Donne faces rejection when he is in the pursuit for his love, but Donne doesn’t accept it passively and aggressively continues his quest for her.

It is a belief held by many that classic works should never be tampered with, as any alterations made would be a defamation of those works importance. However, interpretations of famous works are never created with the intention of making those works seem less influential than they actually are. When revamping a classic work, most people are attempting to either honor that work or increase its relevance in modern society. While modern interpretations of William Shakespeare's Hamlet may seem crude and inaccurate, they are actually helping the famed play stay relevant in the modern era.

This not only asserts Richard’s authority as king, but also shows his faithfulness in the royal line. He will not punish John of Gaunt because he is a “brother to great Edward’s son”, that is, the nephew of Edward III, but criticizes John of Gaunt’s “unreverent shoulders”, demonstrating King Richard’s belief that he deserves to be revered much like a divine being.

The work of William Shakespeare is, to many, the purest representation of theatricality there is. He is the most instantly and internationally recognizable playwright, and so works like Hamlet and Macbeth have come to be seen as staples of the dramatic genre, expected to be studied and performed, with critical acclaim, on a massive scale. However, as with so many forms of art, Shakespeare 's work was not necessarily appreciated as such in his own time, specifically by certain critics of the theatre, and the theatrical form, itself. This was perhaps most fascinatingly articulated by Charles Lamb in his essay On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation”: “The things aimed at in theatrical representation are to arrest the spectator 's eye upon the form and the gesture, and so to gain a more favourable hearing to what is spoken : it is not what the character is, but how he looks; not what he says, but how he speaks it.”1 I believe what Lamb is saying is that he has a problem with the way “theatricality”, or perhaps more accurately staging, can serve as a distraction to the spectator from the actual writing, possibly implying that the writing is too weak to stand on its own. As Jonas A. Barish put it in his book The Antitheatrical Prejudice, “Where Shakespeare is concerned Lamb recoils from the very essence of theater, from its neccesity to externalize, in which he finds intolerable coarseness. Plays themselves may be

Shakespeare. Typically referred to as the lost years. There were no records of his life. Some scholars believe he was living in London serving as an apprentice. Others believe he retreated and wrote under a fake name. (Wadsworth 345) At about age 20, some people thought young William stole a dear from a wealthy man in order to poach. A crime not tolerated during that period. (Wright 6) Eight years before the death of Shakespeare he wrote 4 new plays. Some scholar's debate, which plays, was his last. Very little was known about him before the age of 28. (Wilson 38)

William Shakespeare lived through a turbulent time in England’s history. There was a constant threat of subterfuge, violence, and sedition. During this time, London had to go on about its day-to-day life, and the people wanted some way to let out the tension that they felt around them. A growing distraction was the theater, where they could escape from the chaos for a few hours. Shakespeare was an up and coming playwright and had just moved his theatre. He needed a big opener to impress the crowds. Right around the same time, a new translation of Plutarch’s histories (a Latin book which was written in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D.) was published, featuring stories about famous Greeks and Romans. However, the book was inaccessible to the masses. Shakespeare was inspired by the story of Julius Caesar, seeing in it many of the same themes that he saw in London at the time. The play premiered in the summer of 15__ and was a resounding success. The people loved the story, finding it a perfect example for their current worries. But, did Shakespeare take liberties with the story to shape in such a way that it would be more palpable for the people? Cas the Caesar on the stage of the Globe Theatre anything like the man who was the first emperor of Rome?

Twelfth Knight is one of the most popular plays of Shakespeare. Twelfth Night 1996 by Trevor Nunn is a good imitation of Shakespeare’s play. The movie follows the same structure and pattern of the play.

In the Shakespearean comedy “The Taming of the Shrew”, William Shakespeare cleverly uses the techniques; Satire, Caricatures, Wit and Irony to create humour. “The Simpsons” & “The Big Bang Theory” are television shows that also engage the audiences with the same comedic techniques.