William Styron

feminist lens when reading a book or even watching a movie. This allows an audience to detect how women are portrayed or treated. Throughout the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Gertrude and Ophelia are unimportant to the plot. They are not only unimportant, they are also mistreated. Examining through the feminist lens in the 16th century, William Shakespeare reveals the way in which women are mistreated by men in Hamlet utilizing Gertrude and Ophelia as victims. With that in mind, the male roles in

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is widely thought to be written in 1606. Three years after the ascension of James VI of Scotland to the English Throne as James I and some months after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, although the exact date remains impossible to establish. The turmoil of the era can be attributed to the civil unrest. The narrative acts almost as a instrument to subjugate an unruly citizenship by purging negative emotions such as anger, fear or anxiety. The Jacobean era was defined

Tennessee Williams was an American writer known for short stories and poems in the mid 1950’s. His more famous writing was A Streetcar Named Desire. His writings influenced many other writers such as August Strindberg and Hart Crane. His writings A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie was adopted to films and A Streetcar Named Desire earned him his first Pulitzer prize. In A Streetcar Named Desire there is many elements that build the plot and story line. The story is about a girl who is

ECFS 200Childhood Reflection Assignment I grew up in a small town in Eastern Washington close to the Idaho border. Being the first born, I spent my childhood years mostly at home and at my parents’ restaurant. I pretty much grew up in the restaurant; the employees that have been there since the beginning are basically my second family. I would spend most of my time in the restaurant while my parents worked, doing math problems or napping in the back office. Occasionally, I would be babysat by a friend

literature exclusive to the American South. Stories in this genre of southern writing focus on grotesques themes and include supernatural elements that are mainly focused on damage, the harsh conflicts of violence, racism, and delusional characters. William Faulkner, in his book “The Sound and the Furry”, displays all of these elements. It is seen by every character in the book and the scenes they play in the story, which is a specific role in creating the Southern Gothic vibe. The story is told by

king. Even though Brutus was able to become king, he was not going to get that title without killing Caesar. In the play Julius Caesar, Brutus agrees to kill Caesar and is one of the three murderers that stabbed Julius Caesar. In Act III scene i William Shakespeare writes “CASCA and the other conspirators stab CAESAR. BRUTUS stabs him last.” This is when Brutus’s fate begins because he starts listening to the wrong people such as, when Cassius uses his power and authority to convince Brutus that

Roles of Women What if women never established rights? The world would not be the place it is today if that was the case. Women are able to do just as much as men if not more.Women were regarded as "the weaker sex", not just in terms of physical strength, but emotionally too. The fact that women were not treated equally was wrong in many ways, but that was the way of life during those times. In the British culture, from the Anglo-Saxon, the men were respected on a higher level than women

Female characters, whether they are mothers, sisters, daughters, or lovers, are used as essential roles in every play written by William Shakespeare. In the beginning of both plays, Twelfth Night and Othello, we see strong-willed ladies. Shakespeare enjoys giving women powerful minds and hearts in his works. I think that the female character development between these two plays is that women have the ability to be dominant in a man’s world, but can also lose themselves by becoming submissive to

learning from their experiences and mistakes. However, not only are they influenced by society; Literature is what teaches them everyday… without it being obvious. “Just Lather, That’s All”, written by Hernando Téllez, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth and The Edge directed by Lee Tamahori are all works that demonstrate both social and moral development revealed through the protagonist that teaches the reader to learn how to live a more fulfilling existence. In Hernando Téllez’s “Just

Shakespeare’s Hamlet depicts the struggle of a graduate student after the sudden death of his father and marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius. In his soliloquy, Hamlet discusses his inner turmoil over the knowledge that his uncle, who has assumed the throne of Denmark, is responsible for the death of his father. Shakespeare utilizes conventional literary techniques such as metaphor, allusion, and repetition alongside his traditional iambic pentameter in order to enhance the meaning