Essays on British Empire

Shakespeare’s plays, Henry V (1599) and Macbeth (1623) have similar, yet different, plots. The play Henry V revolves around a young man (Henry V) who has recently been crowned King of England following his father’s (King Henry the IV) death. The issue is that the…

The year 1877 was during the Late Period of the Victorian Age from 1870 -1901. There was the decay of Victorian values during this period. The literature during this period had a generals change in attitude, some of the authors during this period openly attacked…

From the year of 1992 to the year of 2014 the amount of people that identified as non-religious surged from a mear 2% to a high 22%(Beinart). In the Victorian era the separation between church and state was non existent and this bled into the…

To What Extent is Prince Hal Portrayed as an Honorable Man in Shakespeare’s The History of Henry IV [Part One]? In today’s world, honor is not commonly considered to have the greatest amount of importance, and there are contrasting opinions on what exactly honor means…

Context in Henry IV, Part 2: “By the mass, I could anger her to th’ heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?” (III.ii.208-210) Definition: Courtesan; prostitute This word is a noun. Etymology: “Bona-roba” is a word of Italian descent. In…

Clowning In Shakespeare Psychologists say much clowning is defensive and therefore pathological. Many of the characters in Shakespeare’s plays support this notion by depicting comical behaviors in conjunction with subconscious defense mechanisms, proving that this humorous behavior is pathological. One of the most famous of…

In Elizabethan times, education was not available to the public like it is now. Wealthy children had more opportunities for an education. They could afford top scholar tutors to teach them at home, which were very expensive. There was no established free “public” system of…

“An engaging aspect of texts is that authors rarely tell their stories in exactly the same way” Compare the extent to which this statement applies to each of your 3 comparative texts. My favourite thing about studying a new book, play or novel, is that…

Before Sigmund Freud, the study of psychology was highly misunderstood and had little scientific evidence to support many of the theories that circulated within the field. Although different types of psychosis were recognized, most of the time their causes were unknown. Even nowadays, psychology is…

The British Industrial Revolution (1770 1850) changed the social and economic life of Britain. It established a completely new way of living and working. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Britain was poor, though not without some economic surplus; relatively stagnant, though not completely static; and…