“In a play concerned with good and evil‚ with deceit and honesty‚ Desdemona is the refined‚ uncomplicated embodiment of goodness and purity.” Does this statement resonate with your own interpretation of Othello? The play‚ Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare is most definitely a play that is concerned with good and evil‚ and Desdemona does reflect the good in the play and remains the victim throughout. Throughout the play the reader is presented with a battle between the deceitful forces of
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A central preoccupation of English Renaissance Drama is the tension between individual free will and the workings of fate. Compare the treatment of this theme in Dr Faustus and Hamlet respectively. In the Elizabethan period in which both Dr Faustus and Hamlet were written ambition and greed was a big element of society as people tried to gain favour and power with Elizabeth and her court‚ often resorting to murder in order to move further up the social ladder and gain more status‚ or in some cases
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An exploration of the use Shakespeare makes of misunderstanding and deception in the play Much Ado About Nothing Misunderstanding and deception in Much Ado About Nothing are key themes in the play. In Elizabethan times the word “Nothing” was pronounced “Noting” and so the title would have given the audience the initial clue that in this play the importance of noting‚ spying‚ appearance and eavesdropping will cause trouble throughout. It is important to define the difference between misunderstanding
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Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the character King Lear The character of King Lear is essentially a destructive character in this play due to his weaknesses but he reveals some strengths in character in acts four and five of the play. The weaknesses portrayed by Lear are his inability to see reality and his misconception of love. His strengths are his renewed optimism and his ability to become humble. Although Lear reveals these strengths the damages his weaknesses cause override his positive
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ASSINGMENT Fill in the blanks 1.Characters talking about themselves in the third person is a convention that often people who are new to Shakespeare. 2.Character talking about themselves is a way of speaking that can make the occasion and the character . 3.Another confusing convention is that a ruler being referred to by the name of his . 4.This convention is important because it tells the of the king
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the increasing _________________ London. The arts economic boom turned people’s attention to the_________. Music and painting were infused with new ideas‚ the __________theater became the national pastime. what Going to see a play _______in Elizabethan England would be very different from ________ you are seeing used to today. Maybe your experience is___________ your friend that had a small part in a school _____________ production last year. Maybe you’ve been to Broadway in new ______ York City
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word also indicates that she knew that what she was doing was wrong. The word ‘blanket’ could connote comfort or warmth‚ and could also imply she is hiding form her sins; this is juxtaposed to the word ‘dark’ which connoted cold or discomfort. An Elizabethan audience would be shocked by this as they thought that no one could hide from God‚ and that he is all-knowing. Later on in the play‚ this is shown as a flaw of her character as she begins to rely upon a candle to guide her. Shakespeare used the
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Picture yourself in the shoes of women of the Elizabethan time period. This would be much different from how women live now. This was a time period that had an ideal which was typically met‚ and women didn’t have much of a choice to like it. It was rare for someone to speak out‚ and it was nearly unheard of. The women of the Elizabethan time period were faced with such high standards shown in the book Much Ado About Nothing. That the life the lived would be shocking to see today. The women were expected
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consisted of a breastplate and backplate. These were worn over a doublet for ceremonial purposes. Later in the Elizabethan period‚ men wore a falling collar which was a lace-trimmed collar turned downward. As a decorative overgarments‚ men wore a surcoat which was a cape that had a standing collar. This man is depicted wearing a hat with a feather and a sword‚ also not uncommon for men in the Elizabethan
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supposed to behave according to their sex. These expectations are based on stereotypical traits and there are often consequences for not following the norms. Shakespeare’s Macbeth gives evidence of how men and women were perceived during the Elizabethan era and what would happen if they did not conform to those roles. Most of the characters’ actions in the play are influenced by how strict the expectations are. Society’s definitions of masculinity and femininity force the characters to conform to
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