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Through a Child’s Eye: The Aftermath of Politically Institutionalized Oppression Oppression and its synonymous relatives lives beneath our noses, lingering in the air we breathe and manifesting itself in our lungs. Oppression is a pollutant that begins its work at dawn and ceases to take a vacation. It begins as an unnamed idea, a trojan … Read more
In any tragedy, the tragic hero is a righteous character who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat. Three main theories of the tragic hero are the Aristotelian model, the Shakespearean model, and the modern tragic hero. Each model has five defining characteristics, which are nobility, hamartia, downfall, anagnorisis, and suffering. In the Shakespearean mode … Read more
William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are a young couple with rivaling families that fall in love also known as the star-crossed lovers. They go through many challenges in their relationship but in the end, it leads those challenges to their deaths. They both express irresponsibility through their impulsive and rash … Read more
The star-crossed gnomes meet in a garden while Juliet was trying to sneak a flower back to her side and Gnomeo was on a mission to poison the well water when they find out they’re from different gardens. This parallels to the act of Romeo crashing a Capulet party and meeting Juliet, them falling quickly … Read more
4. Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Be sure to use the text to prove your point. Romeo and Juliet is a story of great tragedy, two young people, falling deeply in love, and at the end, not even spending a week together, but maybe in their own minds their love … Read more
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is composed of a plethora of characters with varying personalities. Romeo and Juliet is a tale of a boy and a girl from feuding families who fall in love with each other, and end up killing themselves. Shakespeare ends with “Some shall be pardoned, and some shall be punished” (Cite). Among … Read more
Honor Honor is a constant subject in this play. Don John planned for Hero to be publicly humiliated at her wedding. Hero’s honor is crushed in the aftermath of that event. Claudio’s honor would be destroyed if he married an unfaithful woman. Another example would be Benedick’s argument for why he will never get married/fall … Read more
Love and Despair The ideas of love and passion are ever present in almost everyone’s lives nowadays, this intimacy can be felt for your parents, a lover, or any number of things, and many authors use these topics in their novels. William Shakespeare, author of Romeo and Juliet, does not shy away from the effects … Read more
Comedy and Tragedy as Foils Shakespeare is an author that is known to pair comedy and tragedy together as foils. Susan Snyder, a scholar author has stated, “The source tales of Romeo and Othello would, I think, suggest quite readily to Shakespeare the possibility of using comic convention as a springboard for tragedy” (Snyder 123). … Read more
The Role Patriarchy Plays in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Stephen Evans’ “Study guide for Romeo and Juliet” quotes Anthony Fletcher’s definition of patriarchy as: “the institutionalised male dominance over women and children in the family and the subordination of women in society in general (xv)” (Evans, 4) Looking at this definition, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet … Read more
It is common for parents to be concerned about their children’s teen years, with rebellion, mood swings, and poor decisions being frequent grievances. Parents dread this “phase” and enter it with trepidation while being urged by their teens to give them more freedom as a person. What parents don’t realize is that their incessant complaints … Read more
Many factors contribute to the tragic end to one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to detail the plotline of the story to the audience, as well as the indiscretion of Romeo’s decision to kill himself due to his oblivion that Juliet was actually alive in the tomb. Shakespeare also uses the … Read more
Man of Twenty-Nine Thousand Words “We know what we are, but not know what we may be. ” The man with a vocabulary with over twenty-nine thousand words, William Shakespeare is one who left a lasting impact on the world and even affects the world today. Shakespeare is a writer who has affected the world … Read more