Analysis Of ' Troilus And Cressida ' Essay

Lady Capulet acts nothing of what society expects of her. Her personality is all-encompassing with demand. Take for an example, during the production, Capulet asks for a sword while Lady Capulet replies “A crutch, A crutch” referring that Capulet is too old to fight and has many young men to fight for him. Back in Shakespearean times, history shows there was never a woman who replied in a demanding way with force as Lady Capulet did. She is showing a force of demand which shows a great strength as she shows no fear of the men. At this certain point of the play is where Shakespeare first shows Lady Capulet's form

In contrast, women who boldly project themselves receive portrayals such as indecent and mockable. For example, Bianca undeniably found herself attracted to Cassio. She frequently initiated flirting, which dejectedly turned Cassio off. In Shakespeare’s Era, men exclusively approached women, leading Iago and Cassio to coarsely ridicule her. Cassio even crassly remarked to her, “What do you mean by this haunting of me?” Bianca is a foil to Desdemona, because she blatantly defied the gender roles of society. Wistfully, in return, she met rejection by men for being “confident.” Desdemona feared becoming outcasted, alas, she saved the extroversion for her male counterparts.

That the film includes these elements of feminist material reflects its modern context of a society that is not unfamiliar with feminism. In this area it challenges the original text, where within the context of the Elizabethan era, Katherina’s rejection of her inferiority as a woman is unaccepted and repressed. As Hortensio mocks: ‘ ‘Mates’, maid? …No mates for you/Unless you were of gentler, milder mould’ (1.1.59-60), he manipulates Katherina’s reference to him as a ‘mate’- a crude man- to mean ‘husband’ in an attempt to silence her. Such repression- and that of Katherina at the hands of Petruchio- though exaggerated and outrageous, was acceptable and approved of in the context of Shakespeare’s play.

Every child knows the fun in setting off a chain of Dominoes, how each piece plays its part in the overall outcome. As we get older we realize the same concept applies to real life. We come to acknowledge the fact that each event in our lives, each person has an effect on our futures. In Shakespeare’s tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet”, a pair of “star-crossed lovers take their life”. This event alone, however, is not the cause of just Romeo and Juliet, but all the people in the fair city of Verona. As W.H. Auden, a poet and critic, once wrote, “”Romeo and Juliet” is not simply a tragedy of two individuals, but the tragedy of a city. Everybody in the city is in one way or another involved in and responsible for what happens". The

serve god if the devil bid you” and he also says “the moor is now

Racism has been in America from many years. “Caucasia” is one the best example of it. Danzy Senna writes about Birdie and about her life. In the story two sisters Birdie and Cole have different skin color, one with dark and one with white skin. Both sisters are really close to each other. They even talk in their own language that they made while growing. In a racially divided Boston area, the sisters are sent to a black community school, where birdie faces many problems in school. Their father Deck is black and mother Sandy white. Their racial color became a big problem in society. At one stage their family collapses when the FBI comes in, and their parents separate. Deck the father takes Cole and his new girlfriend to Brazil with him. Birdie goes with her mother and lives in many different cities in New England. Both sisters live without each other. Birdie always tried to find someone like her sister, who she can copy or follow. At the end Birdie leave her mother and reunites with her black father deck and sister Cole.

Characters within a Greek tragedy should follow a basic set of guidelines in order to fit the premise of Aristotle’s poetics. The characters presented to the viewer should “be consistent, good, likeable, and of high status and reputation, but do not need to perfect” (Connelly).

For many decades, books present us with different characters that impact the course of history and literature. These personas all come with different and unique perspectives that add meat to a story in unexpected ways. Usually the characters with the biggest impacts are the major characters of a story; however, as seen Antigone by Sophocles and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, that concept may not always be the case. Both stories create a unique way of developing their plots: by utilizing their minor characters. The play and the book provide their minor characters, Obierika and Teiresias, impactful roles in the way they serve as the wise, reasonable, and sane personalities that hold the voice of reason in society.

My time travel experience to the 1600’s started in Paul Green Theatre as I sat down to watch The Crucible. I was joined by Reverend Samuel Parris, Betty Parris, and audience members taking up all four corners of the Parris’ upper bedroom in 15th century Salem on the center stage during Act 1. The Parris’ house filled up quickly as we saw Betty Parris bed-ridden and dealing with an illness deemed as the devil’s work by members of the Salem community. The hysteria of witchcraft spread immediately throughout the auditorium as I had my eyes glued to Betty and the huge cross on the head of her bed. I kept thinking to myself that I could have easily have been another member of Salem Village accused of being an associate of the devil. This production set forth burgeoning fear of my own faults and how important maintaining reputation and integrity is in the face of mass hysteria.

The admirable or “good” characters in the play are hard headed like the Greek myth of Cleopatra.The myth has her emotion and moral problem to sophocles story and the problem of loyalty to god or blood. In cleopatra's story it also points out that

They believe the sole purpose of a woman should be the amusement for men. Through Iago, an evil person, Shakespeare displays this crooked belief. Upon reaching Cyprus, Iago makes gests about the Venetian women, starting with “had tongue at will” and going so far as to say she “yet was never loud” (II.i.164). Furthermore, Cassio agrees with Iago’s gest as he says, “Iago speaks home” (II.i.180). Both Cassio and Iago freely make fun of women, demonstrating the picture of women in the Elizabethan society. With both Cassio and Iago, Shakespeare clearly informs the audience of the twisted idea where women are only there to please men. By distorting the view of women compared to today, Shakespeare illustrates the assumed submissive role women have in the Elizabethan society. As Shakespeare personifies men’s ideas, he creates a situation that informs the society of injustice which contributes to today’s change. Just as Iago notes the assumed role of women at the time, so too does he outline the mannerisms used as he converses with Desdemona. Speaking to Desdemona, Iago says women are, “Huswives in [their] beds” (II.i.125). Once again, Shakespeare demonstrates how many believe the expected role of women lies in pleasing their husbands. Although Iago seems to playfully be teasing Desdemona as an individual, he is ultimately mocking the female gender as a whole. Iago’s upfront disrespect shows how many men

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is taken on a journey through hell. On this journey, Dane sees the many different forms of sins, and each with its own unique contrapasso, or counter-suffering. Each of these punishments reflects the sin of a person, usually offering some ironic way of suffering as a sort of revenge for breaking God’s law. As Dante wrote this work and developed the contrapassos, he allows himself to play God, deciding who is in hell and why they are there. He uses this opportunity to strike at his foes, placing them in the bowels of hell, saying that they have nothing to look forward to but the agony of suffering and the separation from God.

My Dear Palestrina’ is a cleverly written short story by Bernard MacLaverty. It is about this young boy called Danny who discovers his musical talent and goes to this piano teacher called Miss Swartz. Their friendship develops and seem to be a formidable partnership until Danny is torn away from his beloved music lessons because of Miss Schwartz private life. Fitted into the story are some important themes that still continue to exist in today’s society. In this essay I will try to explain most of them to you.

Of the three women in this play, each dresses as a man once, furthering the comedic air with clever disguises. Jessica starts off the chain of costumes by dressing up as a torchbearer to flee from her father’s house. “Cupid himself would blush / To see me thus transformed to a boy” (2.vi.39-40). Jessica’s readiness to run away from her father triumphed over her embarrassment about dressing as a man. In the same way, Portia and Nerissa don the clothes of lawyers to save their husbands’ friend. “There you shall find that Portia was the doctor / Nerissa there, her clerk” (5.i.298-9). This lie’s hilarity is furthered when Balthazar is praised for being smarter than most men. But the comedic elements don’t stop there.

Shakespearean tragedy is a story of one, or at most two persons. As a rule, they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow, undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are, to paraphrase Northrop Frye,[1] not tragic heroines, but heroines in a tragedy.