Eric Burdon, an influential songwriter involved in the band “The Animals” once proclaimed: “‘Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil: It's a constant struggle as to which one will win, and one cannot exist without the other”’ (Burdon). Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, in one of his most ambitious novels, East of Eden, explores this concept through the lives and decisions of regular people in a poor town setting during the 20th century. While many of Steinbeck’s characters fit
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Phillip Gwynne’s 1998 novel “Deadly Unna?” takes place in the racially skewed 70’s. It focuses on a town divided by skin colour that is also cut off from city life. When the local junior football makes it into the grand final, everyone is out to attend what forms the most important passage in the novel. Gwynne uses a variety of literary techniques to portray the intensity of the emotion at the ground, namely; repetition and truncated sentences to create a sense of tension, and imagery to show the
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When we think of legendary playwright William Shakespeare, we would normally think of the many plays he has written and seeing them being performed on stage. But today, long after his time, his work has revolutionized the way we see and learn about Shakespeare by being portrayed in all types of media. Shakespeare is not longer exclusive to the stage; we see his works in modern day media such as film and TV now more than ever. The way we learn about Shakespeare today had to be conformed to the way
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Revenge William Shakespeare’s, “The Hamlet,” has many themes used to reflect the Renaissance period. Shakespeare used revenge as the main theme of this play to get a more dramatic connection between the actors and the audience. The characters show this by acting mindlessly through anger instead of through reason. Hamlet is based around the principle, an eye for an eye, which means a person who has injured another person will be penalized at a similar degree. The characters go about their conflicts
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William Shakespeare in his well-known play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written in 1606, uses various types of metaphorical masks. Shakespeare was inspired to write the play after reading a book titled, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, about the real-life Macbeth. Just like the actual King Macbeth, The Tragedy of Macbeth takes place in Scotland. Metaphorical masks are imaginary shields used to hide what is actually taking place. Although there are many types of masking throughout the tragedy
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Shakespeare portrays in his tragedy Hamlet. The main character recognizes this truth too late while his best friend, and arguably the noblest character, grasp it just in time. These realizations convey the theme that it’s nobler to live than die. For example, after much internal debate throughout the play, Hamlet finally concludes that he wanted to live in the end. To start his debate, he ponders, “To be, or not to be, that is the question” (Shakespeare 63). Hamlet is wondering if he should live or
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the fifth act of Hamlet) Death, no one likes to hear the word, but none of us can escape it. The death of someone or even ourselves is all a part of the life that we live. It is impossible to avoid death when the time has come. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet¬ there is much death throughout the play. The play itself starts out with the knowing of the death of the King, Hamlet’s father. Throughout the play more and more characters die in their own way. In act five of Hamlet death appears in three
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importance of religion in relation to the importance of the state can be clarified by way of his soliloquies, throughout Hamlet. More specifically, Hamlet’s first, fourth, and sixth soliloquies, raise the question of how Hamlet views his relationship with God in accordance to his relationship with the state of Denmark. It is evident the Hamlet is particularly religious. Although Hamlet does not explicitly discuss his ideas regarding the significance of religion and state in relation to one another, they
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” In this novel written by William Shakespeare it is portrayed that acting irrational or ignorantly can lead to a plethora of issues. From as early as the first scene Romeo acted out of impulse and did not think clearly this can be summarizing by the when he says,” O, teach me how I should forget to think!” (Rom 1.1.225) This quote shows how he is acting in the moment and not
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Shakespeare, why thou no talk normally. The title of the play is Hamlet By Shakespeare. The play was about Claudius who killed Old Hamlet because he wanted to become king instead of Hamlet. The title of the movie is The Lion King By Cris Sanders. The Lion King is about Scar who kills Mufasa. He becomes king and Mufasa’s son runs away and comes back a while later to recover his crown. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Disney’s The Lion King are similar because the brothers are evil and kill their
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