a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this motif. everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice. who hides and what is hidden? how does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on life in general?
Upon closer inspection, noticeable flaws exist in almost all of the key characters. As a major playwright of the time, Shakespeare wanted to defy the common conception and stereotype that all main characters have justified, virtuous intentions. This play is also different
A Sane Insanity OPENING SENTENCE. Whether it’s a result of all action no thought or all thought with barely any action, either extreme can drive you to the point of insanity. In Titus we see him insane in one scene and then sane in the next. With Hamlet we see him plan that he’s going to act crazy, oblivious and unintelligent which evidentially will cause him to go insane. Seeing Titus flirt around both sanity and insanity was common.
The acting is spot-on in this film. Some other interpretations of Macbeth through film, or even in a theater production, can tend to be overdramatized and can really turn you off from the film/play from the get go. This is not the case in the Goold film. Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth speaking these lovely verses bring just the right amount of excitement and coyness to their roles. Its elements such as this that hook you from the beginning and keep you engrossed until the very end.
1.Blindness is a reoccurring theme in Shakespeares King Lear is the theme of blindness. Blindness in todays society is generally interpreted as the inability of the eye to see. In Shakespearian terms, blindness is not a physical state of being, but rather a temporary mental flaw. The theme of blindness in King Lear is clearly shown through the actions of Albany, Gloucester, and King Lear. Albany suffers from the classic case of blindness.
Contrast Kent’s and the Fool’s attitude towards Lear. What point of view does each represent with regard to our evaluation of Lear as either villain or Hero? One major difference in the attitude taken by Kent and the Fool toward Lear is the approach they both take when speaking to him. The Fool’s lexis is in the form of riddles; he gives wisdom in folly so to the audience his lexis seems complex and comedic however at second glance is in fact wisdom. The Fool appears to speak the mind of the audience, informing Lear of his rash and unwise decisions- “Thou hast pared thy wit o’both sides and left noting i’th’middle.” This honesty spoken by the Fool interrupts the natural order of being as in Elizabethan times Lear was seen the ‘the embodiment of God- his equal on earth’ therefore such a ‘lowly’ person as the Fool would not be permitted to be so blunt and honest.
Final Macbeth Essay In Macbeth Shakespeare illustrates that life’s errors, errors of action or omission of action, are generally caused by each individual’s blindness. This blindness occurs when one assumes that others view the world, think and/or behave as one does oneself. However, such blindness can have dire consequences. Throughout the book Macbeth, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth experience blindness and ignorance to different choices they have made. Through their ignorance, they become guilty and because of this they must face the consequences of their actions.
This play goes to show the flaws and attributes of Macbeth’s character. In the play Macbeths says “My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smothered in surmise, and nothing is, but what Is not” (1.3 . 139- 142) . His thoughts are tending towards the murderer, he is hinting that things may not always as they seem. This quote shows the reader that Macbeth is thinking of others but he is
It drives the play forward, the audience being given incomplete information and left to keep guessing in anticipation. Knowledge is also a source of comedy it is acquired and interpreted in different ways by different people which causes a satirical effect. The acquisition knowledge is not only key theme in the plot, but also plays a role in the audience and how the play is viewed. Stoppard invites the audience to make presumptions which he then proves false, to alert the audience to the fact that knowledge is hard to acquire and can easily be falsely interpreted. An example of this is the presumption at the end of scene 4 when a gunshot is heard.
Hamlet and True Insanity Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet presents two different types of psychotic behaviors through the characters Hamlet and Ophelia, but only one character truly goes insane. Shakespeare utilizes this theme of madness to create dimensional characters through forming the question of whose insanity is real and which character is simulating it. Hamlet’s lunacy is applied to make it seem as if he does not know Claudius killed Hamlet Sr., and this escalates as the plot prolongs and becomes a significant part of the play. The cause of Ophelia’s insanity is not because of her father’s death alone; many characters pushed her to her wits end and indirectly caused her to commit suicide. Ophelia’s exotic behavior begins in Act Four