Year Three

ANALYSIS OF OTHELLO FROM OUTSIDER STANDPOINT IN THE COGNOMINAL PLAY BY SHAKESPEARE As much as any character, Othello exemplifies how polarizing reactions to an outsider can be in Shakespeare, with the play`s great interest-and indeed Othello was from the beginning one of the most frequently performed and written about-resulting from strong and often opposite emotions. Critics have focused on his blackness or, recently, his condition as a Moor , and the particular associations of these…

William Shakespeare is known for writing some of the most profound tragedies of all time, including Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, two of the most famous plays. When an audience is watching these dramas, they see how horrific events can happen to people who seem completely moral, which begs the following question: what leads to these tragedies? One can easily blame the individual imperfections of the characters, but every tragedy in Shakespeare’s canon shares a greater overarching warning.…

Eliminating Stereotypes in Macbeth Stereotypes are preconceived notions identifiable in society and culture around the world. William Shakespeare utilizes the stereotypes in reference to gender roles in his romantic tragedy, Macbeth, to shape characters and advance plot. The typical characteristic differences between genders in the era in the play are initially revealed but are then readdressed thereafter in a complicated gender-role reversal which Shakespeare portrays the difference between…

There are multiple kinds of struggles, both internal and external struggles are important for shaping a character in a novel. Shakespeare’s play MacBeth includes a thane, who, after meeting three mysterious people, wrestles with himself mentally over the thought of taking power. He fights with his wife, with his friends, and with himself. MacBeth’s internal and external struggles are contrasted with Lady MacBeth’s struggles to portray themes of masculinity. MacBeth’s internal struggle over…

Controlling Conscience People’s conscience’s guide their actions, behaviors, and decisions on a daily basis, but is a person’s conscience powerful enough to determine whether they will live or die? Shakespeare would argue that it is. According to his writing, he would even go as far as implying that a person’s conscience is the reason that one might choose to kill himself. Two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, are prime examples of how a character’s guilty conscience,…

In both life and literature, love exists as a hidden force that secretly drives all lives, propelling people's greatest desires and pushing them to extreme lengths if it means that they will get what they want. Love, in whatever form it comes in, will make people crazy. In fact, it will make them so crazy that centuries after a work has been written, students analyze the insanity behind the actions and the all powerful drive — love— that caused it. In Plato's Symposium, characters examine not…

Macbeth is the main character of William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. He is a valient soldier who becomes more selfish and more greedy over time. This leads him to kill his superior, the king Duncan, to earn a spot on the throne, and he becomes a tyrant of Scotland only to be overthrown at the end of the play. There is one person from recent history who closely resembles the devilish character based on character traits. This one person is Yolanda Saldivar. Macbeth was a Scottish soldier…

personality to fit the author's vision of who she should be. Morgan is a complex legend and that is exactly why Hebert claims that to limit her as either a witch or a goddess would be undermining who she is. Her wide range of behaviour is what makes her a three-dimensional myth, and it makes her more relatable to the reader of the stories. Because she is from Celtic origins, her complexity should be expected, as Celtic culture embraced versatility and opposition.…

To some, fear can be a great asset, and to many it is something that takes control of their very lives. Eleanor and the story of The Haunting of Hill House is but a microcosm for many issues plaguing humanity not only today, but for thousands of years. Distrust and fear is a likely cause for the political climate in the United States. When logic is disposed of, minds are malleable. These malleable minds are often taken advantage of, whether it be by an ancient and haunted house in a story, or a…

catastrophic. It is easy for someone to be manipulated and tricked into believing something that may seem real when in reality it is not. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth is influenced by the three witches, pressure of Lady Macbeth and his own fate ultimately led to his tragic downfall. The Three Witches played a huge part in Macbeth's downfall, as they were the first characters to tempt and deceit Macbeth into committing evil deeds. They were the ones who first triggered Macbeth's…