We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actor. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through the structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves say.
Meva Tinsley Monson/Lovett Sophomore World Literature 4 May 2009 The Mystery of Disguise Although the movie 10 Things I Hate About You displays some deceptive moments, deception is the key motive in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Both physically and emotionally, The Taming of the Shrew captivates deception within the mastery of disguise. Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew tells the story of two daughters in which the eldest must get married before the youngest. The modest Bianca has no deficiency of admirers (Gremio, Hortensio, and Lucentio), but Baptista, her loving father, demands that she not marry until her shrewish sister Katherine becomes engaged. The many suitors to Bianca persuade the money hungry Petruchio to woo Katherine.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately- and the decision must be made by some force- of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality–that was close at hand” (Fitzgerald 151). While Gatsby serves in World War I, Daisy returns to her posh life and soon becomes Mrs. Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan, a wealthy heir from Chicago. However, her wedding day does not go unmarred. Thirty minutes before the bridal dinner, Daisy loses her façade with the assistance of a bottle of Sauterne and a mysterious letter. Nevertheless, she marries Tom and soon gives birth to a daughter.
However, Shakespeare presents Benedick’s change in a more positive and light-hearted manner, whilst Macbeth’s change revolves around negativity and wrong-doing as the approach to each individual genre is different, where comedies are humorous and happy, whilst tragedies are gloomy and grief-stricken. INTRO: The opening scene of the play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, is significant as Shakespeare introduces the genre of the play as a romantic comedy through the comic names given to Benedick and Beatrice by each other. Beatrice nicknames Benedick as “Signor Mountanto”, which uses sexual innuendo expressing their love hate relationship, created by the definition of the word ‘montanto’ (technical term for an upward thrust in fencing). This insulting, but hilarious comment would have only been understood by the Shakespearean audience. Opposing this, Benedick personifies disdain in the form of Beatrice, by calling her “Lady Disdain”, suggesting that she is in fact, the epitome of disdain or contempt.
Cyrano de Bergerac is a tragic comedy because it involves all of the elements and incorporates all the aspects of a tragicomedy. The tragedy that occurs in Cyrano de Bergerac builds up throughout the story. Cyrano and Christian are vying for the same woman, Roxanne, from some of the first lines. Cyrano and Christian join alliance
They teach us to not be offended by the slurs which make us feel embarrassed and hence we have attitudinal change. This is another reason why sitcoms are effective. Seinfeld usually has two or three stories in the story which are the main focuses. In the “Pez Dispenser” episode there are three stories, Elaine laughing at Jerry’s Pez dispenser in a musical performance, the second Kramer’s Cologne Idea and the third Jerry’s friend’s drug addiction. Throughout the three stories the conflict escalates and the confusion rises until the storylines meet together and are usually resolved in a hilarious way.
After subsequently defeating the English again at the Battle of Patay, Joan brought Charles to Reims, where he was officially crowned King Charles VII on July 17. On the way from Reims, Joan and the Duke of Alencon suggested that the French attempt to take English-controlled Paris. But after a promising first day of fighting, Charles called off the assault on Paris; he was running low on funds. He recalled the army south and disbanded much of it. Charles then named Joan and her family to French nobility, in thanks for Joan's services to
The seriousness of their love results from the lovers’ disrepudance (?) of artificial language of ‘love’ and superficial code they had tired by at the beginning of the play. This is seen through the development of language form beginning with rhyme (Levin- “Comedy set the pattern of courtship embodied in dance (rhyme)) heavily used in the first act to its replacement of Blank verse which representative of a for more logical and realistic tone. This also reflects a common Shakespearean comment on Appearance versus Reality which is often a deeper theme discussed in tragedy. Tragedy is said to be further represented in Shakespeare’s use of opposites or antithesis.
William Shakespeare produced most of his works between 1589 through 1613. Early in his career, Shakespeare wrote one of his most famous plays, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The play is a mix between comedy and tragedy. The play is about forbidden lovers whose suicides end the battle between the two families. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare portrays Juliet to be obedient but transforms to an independent woman, impulsive, and passionate.
After the revolution, Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660. He brought with him a large entourage of the sons and daughters of aristocratic English families that was once dispossessed by Oliver Cromwell during the Puritan revolution. The Country Wife pokes fun of this aristocratic 17th century English social class as they behave in public. Promiscuous is the term that would come to mind when one is reading this play. Naturally affectations may also be a term that comes to mind.