Analysis Of Shakespeare 's ' The Garden '

1.) Shakespeare is considered the most important playwright ever because, according to the film Shakespeare on the Silver Screen, “he seems to deal with and discuss and dramatize most of the things that matter to most human beings.” What this means is that he was able to write about issues that individuals wanted to see and what mattered to them. He had a gift of observing people without judging them; he observed them for who they really were. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was able to discuss tragic love, something that most humans could relate to and love is something that mattered to a number of them as well. He was able to connect to individuals and connect to the emotions they were feeling.

The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream was mainly about love and its abnormal dealings. In the play, Shakespeare tried to show that love is unpredictable, unreasonable, and at times is blind. The theme of love was constantly used during the play and basically everything that was said and done was related to the concept of love and its unpredictable ness. Shakespeare made all of the characters interact their lives to be based on each other’s. At first, everything was very confusing, and the characters were faced with many different problems. In the end, however, they were still able to persevere and win their true love, the love they were searching for in the first place.

Like any religious society of the past, life in Elizabethan England was ordered based on the Great Chain of Being. This hierarchy, with God and royalty at the top, man in the middle above women, and animals near the bottom, was the basis of status. Deviation from the established order was considered absurd and created chaos. In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Shakespeare uses the juxtaposition of contrasting people and settings to explore the effects of disorder in Elizabethan society while revealing character flaws for comic effect.

Reading this puzzling but interesting article, Shakespeare in the Bush, left me with some thoughts and feelings about the universal lesson from it. Also was wondering if the author, Laura Bohannan’s was shocked as much as I was after the Elders response to Hamlet and his little lesson of wisdom. The beginning introduces Bohannan's objective of her trip, and some interesting background stories of the African Tribe Tiv and shocking behavior from the elders, shocked by the fact of that they have beer down there. As we learned in class, culture and customs are learned, as Bohannan’s states “Human nature is pretty much the same the whole world over; motivation of the greater tragedies would always be clear”. I was thinking just like her in the beginning of the story and the class,

Shakespeare in the Bush written by Laura Bohannan is a story talking about how a American Anthropologist travels to study a tribe called the Tiv of West Africa, but while she was out there she was introduced into a completely different environment and type of living which is what she was studying. The tribe that she was living with was very into the method of story telling while you sat around a fire and drank and told these stories, due to the fact that they could go outside because the ground are to difficult to walk through during the wet season. Laura when she was out in West Africa she decide to try and teach this native tribe the true meaning of Hamlet, which is a sometimes hard read for most Americans due to

Faults exist when love and law attempt to coincide. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia comes head to head with unfairness, the fault which arises after her father disapproves of her marrying who she loves. According to the Athenian Law she must serve a punishment for disobeying her father. By this law, she should treat him like a god or her ruler. What he says goes and he intends for her to marry Demetrius, but she loves Lysander. In the play, if she does not marry who her father has chosen for her, several punishments may occur. Hermia has a few options she must quickly choose by the wedding of Theseus and Hyppolyta. Ultimately, law should not factor into a person’s

Although Shakespeare and his work have proven themselves significant and have been able to last to even the modern day, much of Shakespeare’s life is a mystery. The only two primary sources that can be used to look at Shakespeare’s life are his works, his legal documents, and his church documents.

Chapter 5-When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare… Shakespeare is a universal figure, as his plays are historical treasures. As a result many authors allude or borrow from his masterpieces. Foster tells us that many writers borrow from other literary works to get ideas across in a familiar way, and Shakespeare is the most familiar author to anyone. The most popular allusion to Shakespeare in pop culture today, is to Romeo and Juliet.

On the first day of class, students were given little slips of paper with Shakespeare quotes on them. I remember that the one that I was given stated, “Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.” This quote stuck with me for some reason, just as various other lessons from the course have. Before I took the course, I was only semi-interested in each of the topics of Shakespeare, film and various social issues; now, after having learned about them in depth, my interest is heightened. Overall, this course has had a tremendous impact on my ways of thinking about a plethora of different subjects.

I chose to do this contemplative practice in the Shakespeare Garden between Dearborn and the Ford building/Tech. I decided on the garden because it is one of the more unique places of solitude in North campus, which is usually very busy and loud throughout the day, commonly demonstrated on Sheridan Road, Tech, SPAC, and Sargent.

Tris (Beatrice): Beatrice is the 16-year-old protagonist of the novel. Her mind has developed in a way that allows her to believe in many different ideas and values, all of equal importance to her. Opposed to having had one main value instilled in her mind while she was growing up, which was typical for majority of the teens in all factions, Beatrice’s is classified as, "Divergent.” Due to this, Tris has to face many more challenges than most teens in this dystopian society, and readers depict her as strong-willed, daring, and averse to showing weakness, mostly during her initiation into Dauntless. However, despite how heroic and brave Tris is majority of the time, like any teen, she still has moments of inordinate and uncontrollable

To start off, this essay has a lot of problems starting from the title to the conclusion. For one, the title of the essay is miss leading and does not provide enough information about the essay itself. It`s rather vague and really boring to the point where I would not pick it up if only my teacher didn’t force me too. The second problem I have with this essay is the introduction. This is because in the beginning sentence of the introduction, the writer explains what a grammar school is, which is fine and all, but why did the writer end it off with an exclamation mark? With that exclamation mark there, it sounded like the writer is calling the reader`s stupid because the writer is yelling at them when they are explaining what a grammar school is. The next thing that bugged me was that the writer spaced the “st” from the twenty ones which is incorrect. The last thing about the writer`s introduction that was a big problem was that you did not provide any supporting evidence to back up your thesis and you ranted on too much on how much you dislike Shakespeare too.

The beginning of the scene starts us off at a churchyard, where we first see two clowns, also known as gravediggers; start up a conversation about Ophelia 's death. Strangely, this is actually supposed to be the comic relief of the story. Between their conversations, the first clown believes that her death was not by of nature and was indeed a suicide, and since suicide is a sin against God, she should not technically be allowed to be buried in a Christian graveyard. While the second clown defends her for a bit, they both eventually came into an agreement about the argument. As for Ophelia, she is lucky that her family is rich and has power with the king, so they were somewhat able to make an exception. After that, they had a humorous that invokes the Bible and to the art of gallows-making.

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I, iv, 90). In other words, something is not right. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young prince, Hamlet, experiences numerous dilemmas in the country. In order for the country to remain stable, each character must follow the moral. As the play moves forward, Shakespeare uncovers the real extent of ‘rottenness’ coming from several characters. Rotten can be either physical or mental. Horatio defines ‘rotten’ as corruption within the state of Denmark. The castle guards witnessed paranormal activities with a supernatural figure. The figure appears to be the ghost, which in other words claims to be Hamlet’s deceased

Death was a very strong theme in the play, Hamlet. It is the ultimate equalizer. It doesn’t matter how you lived your life. You could have been a prince, king, liar, lover, jester, good friend, or a bad friend, but in the end we all end up 6 ft. under the ground. Humans don 't fear death itself, we fear what comes after it and we don’t know what happens in the afterlife. Whether you have faith or not, there’s still fear of what happens after death because nobody can come back to tell us what happens after we die. It is the unknown. We fear the unknown.