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- 481: Techniques Of William Shakespe
- ... a deliberate shift in its meaning. Shakespeare enjoyed using metaphor and puns to express his views in different perspectives. Imagery: The precision of Shakespeare's imagery gives his writing its unique style. For example,in Macbeth, horrified by his murder of King Duncan, Macbeth looks at his bloodstained hands and says: "What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinious seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." The image of Duncan's blood turning all the oceans blood-red reveals the sadness Macbeth feels over commiting the murder. Verse Form: Shakespeare reinforced his imagery with the rhythm of his verse. His plays weremainly written in blank verse. Each line is divided into five units called feet, with ...
- 482: Is Hamlet Mad?
- ... he gives his first soliloquy. He cries: "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" Macbeth wants his flesh to dissolve into a dew ("solid" contrasting with "melt" in the first line), and wishes that God had not forbade suicides from going to heaven. This is also the first glimpse of ... Claudius seems to be going over the top, saying that he can't imagine what has rendered Hamlet mad and going back to childhood reminisces. This is similar to one of Shakespeare's other tragedies, Macbeth, where Macbeth goes weaves all sorts of flowery expressions of grief over a king he himself killed. In this act, we do not see Hamlet much but are gradually introduced by others to the notion that ...
- 483: Othello - The Greatest Tragedy
- ... of the elements of a tragedy so wonderfully. The love shared between Othello and Desdemona at the beginning of the play is so much more spectacular than that of Claudius and Gertrude in Hamlet or Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. The guilt and wrong felt by Othello after he realizes his errors in judgement is uncomparable to the drama in Shakespeares other tragedies. Any audience viewing Othello for the first time would be ...
- 484: Hamlet - The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- ... Claudius, but did not take advantage of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. He also had only one flaw, and that was pride. He had many good traits such as bravery, but his one bad ... not back down from his position. He also has to have free will, in order to stand up for what he believes in. Finally, the audience must have some sympathy for the tragic hero. In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic hero. Hamlet has all the good traits needed to be a tragic hero. He ...
- 485: William Shakespeare
- ... perhaps the best are As You Like It (1599?) and Twelfth Night (1600?), depict the endearing as well as the ridiculous sides of human nature. His great tragedies Hamlet (1601?), Othello (1604?), King Lear (1605?), Macbeth (1606?), and Antony and Cleopatra (1606?) look deeply into the springs of action in the human soul. His earlier dark tragedies were imitated in style and feeling by the tragedy author John Webster in The ... is concerned with a different type of love, namely the middle-aged passion of Roman general Mark Antony for Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Their love is glorified by some of Shakespeare's most sensuous poetry. In Macbeth (1606?), Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a man who, led on by others and because of a defect in his own nature, succumbs to ambition. In securing the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of any amoral act. Unlike these tragedies, three other plays of this period suggest a bitterness stemming from the protagonists' apparent lack of greatness ...
- 486: An Analysis of Hamlet
- ... to resist the force which drives him or her. Claudius is ambitious. His ambition drives him to murder his brother, the former king. Claudius is evil. But the tragic hero need not be good. Consider Macbeth and Richard III. By their acts, Shakespeare's tragic heroes hope to achieve intended outcomes. "But what they achieve is not what they intended; it is terribly unlike it." Claudius's murderous act brings him ... is a tragic effect. There is no sense of waste in Claudius's death, no sense that this death could have been avoided, no arousal of "pity and fear" as there is in Hamlet's, Macbeth's, Othello's, Lear's and Romeo's and Juliet's deaths. If only Macbeth had been less ambitious, Hamlet more forceful, Othello less passionate, Lear wiser, and Romeo and Juliet less impetuous, their untimely deaths need not have occurred. We feel sympathy for these tragic heroes. We react ...
- 487: The Different Faces Of Grace
- ... to him, he only hopes the ghost will speak. It would be an act of grace, on the ghosts part, if he spoke to Horatio. Another play by Shakespeare that uses the word grace is Macbeth. . . . . My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me, you speak not (1.3.54-57). Grace is used here in the same context as it was used in Hamlet. Here Banquo is speaking to the witches. He is telling them that they greet Macbeth with "present grace", but do not predict anything of Banquo's future. Banquo is asking the witches what they know about his future. When he says "present grace," he is meaning present as in something Macbeth did not earn, but will one day receive. I found an interesting article in Guidepost magazine about a woman and her personal encounter with grace. Sandra Wright is the woman who experienced God's ...
- 488: The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- ... Claudius, but did not take advantage of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. He also had only one flaw, and that was pride. He had many good traits such as bravery, but his one bad ... not back down from his position. He also has to have free will, in order to stand up for what he believes in. Finally, the audience must have some sympathy for the tragic hero. In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic hero. Hamlet has all the good traits needed to be a tragic hero. He ...
- 489: Hamlet: The Tragic Hero
- ... Claudius, but did not take advantage of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. He also had only one flaw, and that was pride. He had many good traits such as bravery, but his one bad ... not back down from his position. He also has to have free will, in order to stand up for what he believes in. Finally, the audience must have some sympathy for the tragic hero. In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic hero. Hamlet has all the good traits needed to be a tragic hero. He ...
- 490: Violence on the Tube
- ... have been exposed to television, videotapes, and films in the classroom. Children in day- care centers often watch Sesame Street. There are filmed and videotaped versions of great works of literature such as Orson Welles' Macbeth. Nearly every school shows films of laboratory experiments. But what of our viewing outside of the classroom? Television is also one of our major sources of informal observational learning. According to Sweet and Singh, viewing ... about violence from friends, watch children get into fights, or read about violence in the newspapers. Even if all those sources of violence were somehow hidden from view, they would learn of violence in Hamlet, Macbeth, and even in the Bible. Thus, the notion of preventing children from being exposed to violent models is impractical. We might also want our children to learn some aggressive skills so that they can defend ...
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