Romeo And Juliet And Shakespeare

Don Quixote is comparable to many texts of Shakespeare and they are both excellent examples of literature from the Renaissance. Shakespeare and Cervantes were writers who used narratives with altered plots. They also used satire to convey their opinions on politics during the period they wrote in. Some differences that they had was that Cervantes mocked chivalric romances, while Shakespeare wrote some form of romances. Shakespeare wrote romances but they were not chivalric, one example of a romance he wrote about was “Romeo and Juliet”. Cervantes was more known for writing novels while Shakespeare was popular for his plays. The technique that Cervantes used was irony which assisted to express the character’s sarcasm. A fun fact is that Cervantes …show more content…
In Beloved, Baby Suggs proclamations to their community in the Clearing is an allusion to Christianity. In “The Color Purple”, Shug Avery’s father is a pastor and Shug Avery becomes alienated from her family due to having children out of wedlock. There are also the same tropes in both works. Schoolteacher and Mister are two characters in the works that have no names given due to their inhumane treatment. There is also a trope of between the other characters and the main characters. In Beloved, Sethe relives memories of her daughter which she had to kill and throughout the novel her daughter comes back to life as a ghost. In the film, Celie was separated from her sister Nettie at a young age and throughout the film Celie constantly says “Nothing, but death can keep me from her”.
Between both the novel and the movie readers can understand history. The historic topic of the segregation, slavery, and the struggles that blacks had to face. The texts clearly convey the message that every human deserves rights and deserves freedom. The themes in the story are easy to understand when the authors and writers use the correct techniques. The author’s use of historical events help the readers to relate the setting of the story to the events. The novel and movie are connected due to the way that racial oppression is …show more content…
Slavery lead to another concept which is racism. Racism is where one ethnicity or race believing that one’s race/ethnicity is superior. It is seen throughout the novels, movies, and shows we watch every day. In novels such as Beloved and Incidents in the life of a Slave girl African Americans were the minority and the Caucasian Americans were the majority. African Americans were considered as property and did not have any rights. They were not able to vote, and run for elections and this was all because of hatred. Throughout these core novels that we have read in class, the same themes were consistently conveyed where abuse was extant. The solution that the majority could find for the hatred they had was to force the African Americans to labor and abuse them whenever they disobeyed. The African Americans were not allowed to participate in their owner’s events, they were not even allowed to eat meals with them. In some occasions, they were starved to death and left there with no proper burial procedures. These actions of inhumanity were eventually taken away when the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, but racism continued. Lynching’s, segregation, and domination of the whites continued until the 1950s