Essays on William Shakespeare

Abstract A study of Shakespeare’s Henry the V allows for one to examine many things present when good leaders are at the helm. In particular, King Henry was especially adept at knowing when to use his words and station to motivate people to fight the…

Othello is an exploration of the villainy and deceit of one’s own mind and its power to manipulate the psyche to be overcome by jealousy and motivated to take devastating and irreversible actions. Shakespeare deals with these ideas through the representation of Iago as a…

Shakespeare is a playwright who knows how to make a villain complex and intriguing. This can be seen from the play ‘Othello’. Iago is a character who has many layers to him, which can be especially seen in act 2 of Othello. This essay will…

I truly believe that madness should be very concerned in our society nowadays because people around us need help. Mad people are always found isolated and therefore, they have no one to talk to. People these days should be more concerned about their lonely and…

We all have our own individual preconceived notions of what we believe to be or what makes a good or bad King. William Shakespeare has lived through 33 wars and war is consistent topic in his plays. In times of war, I believe that Shakespeare…

According to Oxford Living Dictionaries, revenge is the action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands. In other words, it is to repay and take vengeance. People need to calm down after being offended to give…

Authors use literary devices in their story’s and plays for an assortment of reasons. This is also true in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare a Roman senator named Caesar has risen above the rest and soon will become a…

In the Shakespearean play, “Macbeth,” the witches influence on how Macbeth made his decisions played a crucial part in contributing to his eventual destruction. The witches were trying to create chaos by prophesying to Macbeth in order to get him to act. They planted the…

The play ‘Macbeth’ is a portrait of one man, an ambitious, ruthless, disturbing individual.The play shows how he evolves as a person. Although we are presented with his declination from good to evil, we can see his human side throughout the play, which makes it…

Placing too much trust into the three witches and Lady Macbeth is what helped change Macbeth into a bad person. When Macbeth first meets the witches with Banquo, Macbeth is told three prophecies by them. The first he already knew to be true. Later on,…