Essays on William Shakespeare

Macbeth Ambition can be defined as striving for some kind of achievement or distinction and requires desire and motivation to achieve it. If you let ambition take you over however, you can become obsessed with it and it can lead to destructive behaviors. This is…

I believe that Shakespeare is for everyone. I think that within Shakespeare’s play, and sonnets for that matter, one can learn about the depth of human experience. There is so much to see and learn within his plays, that I would never in my wildest…

Deception is a rather popular theme within Shakespeare’s plays. In The Merchant of Venice, deception is something that is used for various purposes; to be harmful, protective, or for personal gain. Shylock uses deception when Antonio asks to borrow money. He agrees to lend him…

If you give something out of care, someone will also care for you. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is an inspiring play that gives spectators a lesson timely needed. The play is about a young, penny-less man, Bossanio and his merchant friend, Antonio….

Shylock’s character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is essentially evil; he is meant to be hated by the reader. He is portrayed as a devil-like being throughout the entire play, someone purely just evil. However, it can be argued that maybe Shylock’s…

Norman Macdonald one said, “Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. ” William Shakespeare, too, exhibits the abstraction of envy in his work and what brings it into existence in the first place. In both Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 78,…

Shakespeare has been an amazing playwright and a poet over decades. His plays and poetry have been influenced in the literature world, especially in the English literature world. Every literaturist falls in love with his plays! It has been a core subject. He has remarkable…

There are social norms in every culture. How we act is often dependent on the society around us. This is true for cultures throughout the world and throughout time. In “Shakespearean Comedy” Katherine Eisaman Maus argues that some characters challenge the status quo throughout the…

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates tension between Romeo and Mercutio’s diverging perceptions of dreams. In an intricately crafted and emotional monologue, Mercutio counters Romeo’s idealistic Petrarchan belief in the power of premonition with his own skeptic view (1. 4. 53-121). Mercutio wittily coins the…

Love, the only abstract thing on earth as ambiguous as the plot of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The Romeo and Juliet, for ages, considered by almost all people as the great example of the so-called, true love. The play disports apparent acts of…