Chastity

Shakespeare structures the plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet, using techniques such as symbolism and a play within a play to help convey the conflict in the story. Although both plays are extremely different as one is a comedy and the other is a tragedy, the conflict in both stem from love. The solution to the conflict ends drastically different in both plays considering since A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedy and traditionally ends in marriage and Hamlet is a tragedy which ends in death

Benedict. This book was composed of precepts for monks to follow as they lived in communal monasteries under an abbot. Ideally, poverty, chastity, and obedience were the most sought after traits that one should follow. Saint Benedict instructed monks to participate daily in written prayers, devotionals, manual labor, and commanded a pledge of poverty, chastity, and obedience (Benedict). Because these rules are not just spiritually beneficial, secular impacts were gained from the monasteries way

When Lux refuses to be a passive object of boys’ desire and starts to act to restore her subjectivity, she is mythologised and objectified to “the point when boys express doubts in her humanity” (UA): “for a second it didn't seem alive: it was too white, the cheeks too perfectly carved, the arched eyebrows painted on, the full lips made of wax” (Eugenides). A clear example is her kiss with Trip, depicted as an encounter with mythological beast: Lux becomes a “creature with a hundred mouths”, “sucking

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there are various issues regarding gender construction and how women are portrayed in the play. The women of the play have zero to no power and control over situations and are often viewed as weak and incapable. The idea of power and control over women is widely shown through Ophelia’s character, who does not get to choose how her future will play out and who she will spend it with. This thoroughly connects to the Oedipus complex in the play as Gertrude’s sexuality

Women artists were not given much respect for their artwork, despite its excellence or level of expertise, during the 19th century. Society placed stigmas and restrictions on women, preventing them from rising to the top and receiving the credit that they truly deserved. Virginia Woolf, one of the most gifted modernist writers, wrote a book titled Shakespeare’s Sister where she details the struggles and encounters that gifted women faced during this time. In this novel, Woolf attempts to shed light

Teen pregnancy The issue of teen pregnancy is a fact that can no longer be overlooked in terms of its magnitude in the society today. Despite the widespread sex education and peer counseling and guidance, there still is a wide prevalence of teen pregnancy, a challenge that does not only affect the teenagers but the society at large. Effects of teen pregnancy The aspect of teen pregnancy is one of the most challenging situations to be in as a young person as it could interrupt flow of school

yoke, the ship, and the chariot. She represented reason, wisdom, and purity. Venus was the carrier of four things in the Roman religion as: Venus Felix; bringer of luck; Venus Victrix, bringer of victory; Venus Verticordia, protector of female chastity; and Venus Libentina, patroness of sensual pleasure. (Grolier) In Greek mythology as Aphrodite, she was the goddess of love, desire, and beauty. She is also said to have a magic girdle that makes anyone she wishes to desire her. (www. hunt)

Themes in the Tempest     The Tempest is generally considered to be Shakespeare's last sole-authored play. The play draws a number of oppositions, some of which it dramatises, and some of which it only implies. Prospero, a figure exhibiting many resemblances to the Elizabethan idea of the 'Mage', (of whom the best known is probably Dr. John Dee), is opposed to both his corrupt brother, usurper of his role as Duke of Milan, and to Sycorax, an evil witch and mother of the 'deformed slave' Caliban

marriage and failing to put in effort to form a strong and long lasting relationship. He is also being ignorant to the fact that he is betraying his wife’s trust and love for him. Furthermore, the husband is not living by the virtues of chastity and temperance. Chastity is not being fulfilled as the husband is not being honest with his wife about his unfaithfulness, his ignorance for his wife’s emotional state causes their marriage to suffer, and he is not able to refrain from being distracted and tempted

Othello is certainly an overlay of the features that define tragedy as explained by Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Eagleton. Hence, to say that the play is Hegelian does not necessarily mean it is not Aristotelian. While Aristotle focused on tragedy Hegel focused on the tragic. Both features of tragedy and the tragic are to a great extent available in the Shakespearean tragedy of Othello. Hegel’s theory on the tragic helps us to a great extent analyze the tragic conflict in this play. He focuses