Essays on Plays

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Hamlet, the titular character uses various literary devices to reveal and visualize his internal conflicts. This seventeenth-century tragedy depicts Hamlet struggling with the death of his father, King Hamlet, and the marriage between his mother and his uncle, Claudius, which…

There are many different attitudes to the purposes of education presented in The History Boys and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. We see many examples of Hector’s traditional views on education compared to Irwin’s pragmatic views about taking an unusual position in debates in…

A lot of people deal with guilt, whether it’s children or adults, everyone deals with guilt at least once in their lifetime. Lots of guilt is shown in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, guilt affects you physically and mentally, some characters are affected by guilt so much…

Written in 411 BCE, two years after the disastrous Athenian defeat in her Expedition to Sicily, the events of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata take place during a similar conflict-ridden setting of the Peloponnesian War between the dominant powers of Athens and Sparta. This is important to highlight…

The Interactive Oral session held in class helped me develop a deep understanding of the play and its themes. Themes such as ‘absurdity of existence’ and ‘purposelessness of life’ were also discussed along with the cultural context of the play. In this reflective statement, I…

Romeo and Juliet is a famous play set in Verona, Italy. It was written by William Shakespeare in 1594-1596. This play is a story about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families, and the two star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, whose never-ending love…

Everyone has made bad decisions before, but not all of them lead to a catastrophic future. However, in William Shakespeare?s play of Romeo and Juliet, the main characters Romeo and Juliet, introduced as ?star-crossed lovers,? die tragically at the end of the book due to…

The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about two main characters, who are supposed to be enemies, fall in love. Because their families have a big conflict going on, they can not be together. They end up killing themselves because they can not…

In the Shakspeare novel and play, ?Romeo and Juliet?, Romeo can be seen as ?The architect of his own demise?. Many readers agree to this view because of the many positive and negative qualities that he possesses. Romeos three most important negative qualities that led…

“That’s the picture I was looking for”, said Everyman. “Let’s see how many likes this will get on facebook.” The last thing Everyman did every night was to look at his Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat before closing his eyes and diving into the land…