Through “Hamlet”, Shakespeare is able to share his views of heterosexual relationships and express his feminist side. In the play, they young prince stands out from the male-dominated crowd as supposed “madness” overcomes him; he rejects the concept of heterosexuality as a real from of love and possesses feminine traits. Observation molds the human mind. Hamlet was raised witnessing and being part of an incestuous relationship with women, contrary of what females were supposed to represent, purity. He generalized them into a stereotype based on their double-sided nature of appearance vs. reality.
Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he cannot feed. At another point of the play he names his desires for love “fell and cruel hounds”. In act 1, scene 5 Olivia says “Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” She’s using this metaphor to relate love to a disease saying if you have too much of it, it can make you sick. Love throws the characters and the play out of order, however that order is quickly put back into place when Shakespeare creates a Deus Ex Machina by making the character Sebastian turn up and fix everything. This reflects the times in Elizabethan society when they had divine order and a strict hierarchy.
In both poems gender conflict is demonstrated between through the emotion of betrayal in a relationship. For example in Les Grands Seignurs she talks about “little woman” which could show the great depth of thought about how she feels towards men. The word “a toy, a plaything” suggests that’s once she got married she has became powerless and feels like she is a toy, this shows her betrayal as when you get married you expect the marriage to be fantastic and not to feel like a toy. In contrast, Medusa also demonstrates this when she says “wasn’t I beautiful?” this Is effective as I can infer that she feels insecure about her looks. It also suggests that she misses her past through the use of a rhetorical question which makes the reader feel sympathy for her.
Compare ways in which Shakespeare presents a character changing in Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Shakespearean romantic comedies such as ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ feature one prominent aspect, complex love relationships amongst different pairs of characters, whereby the audience expects two or more characters to inevitably fall in love. Contrastingly, Shakespearean tragedies, like ‘Macbeth’, indulge in a noble and respected character changing into a tragic Hero, eventually resulting in his death. Similarly, one of the mutual features is the change in characters caused by external influences, whereby Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio influence Benedick to love Beatrice, whilst the witches and Lady Macbeth influence Macbeth to kill the king; as other characters pursue this change, these changes are inevitable. 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.
Paris's persistence shows us that he sees himself as a "conqueror" and Juliet as one to be "vanquished," again portraying the theme of men's treatment of women, just like the stanza suggests. We also see that the second and third stanzas portray exactly how Romeo treats and views Juliet. In the second stanza, the woman tells her lover not to worship her, like "one from heaven sent,"
The women that touched their lives were used as beards to hide their homosexuality, which in early nineteenth century England was a ‘crime’ punishable by death, (Freeman). This essay will establish that Percy Shelley wrote the letters and first three chapters of the novel, and argue that since he did, the stories and the characters were: based on his earlier works, his and his friends’ life histories, and that the underlying social commentary of; man’s inhumanity to man, prejudice, and cultural intolerance the creature endured, was a metaphor that hid the true purpose of the novel—an exegesis process to elucidate the frailties of man: that he will always hate, fear, and despise cultural and physiological differences in others, and that when those different ones try to effect sociological change, in this case by playing God, they are doomed to ruin. That Percy wrote the letters and first three chapters is confirmed, albeit somewhat ambiguously—“From this declaration I must except the preface. As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him.”, (Shelley, Introduction), by Mary Shelley herself in the novel’s introduction of the 1831 ‘revised’ version in which she states the line starting chapter four, “It was on a dreary night of November,” (Shelley, Introduction), began her contribution to the novel. She does admit that in the beginning of their marriage Percy, “…was from the
Hermia states that Egeus, “That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell”, the use of juxtaposition of “heaven” and “hell” shows Hermia’s contrasting ideas of the court, because it can be paradise where they live and eat well but hell where they cannot act against the law and express their love . Also, Hermia’s character is showing her rebellious side, suggesting that she will do anything for love, even defying Egeus, her father and Theseus’ orders, which was to become a nun or be a virgin; this is subverting the norms of society in Shakespeare's time, women in that era were seen as vulnerable and submissive, which Hermia’s characters opposes to this stereotypical perception of women. Hermia elopes into the woods and this prepares the audience for the complication as she is entering the green world, because the green world is a place where characters can do anything and is without limits as the green world is full of unruliness and subversion. However, it is only temporary, and the characters will have to go back to where they came from. A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows the typical structure of a dramatic comedy because it contains the tripartite
Catullus says “for there are times when my desired, shinning lady is moved to turn to you for comfort, to find (as I imagine) ease for ador, solace, a little respite from her sorrow” (2, 8). This shows that Lesbia uses other men for emotional purposes, in addition to Catullus. Poem number eleven goes even further, by talking about the many guys that Lesbia pleases. Catullus says “May she have joy and profit from her cocksmen, go down embracing hundreds all together, never with love, but without interruption winging their balls dry” (11, 7-20). This gives us the understanding that Lesbia is someone who is more concerned with numerous sexual encounters than with love.
Clayton Pereira Write about the way relationships between men and women Are presented in Romeo and Juliet and a selection of poetry by Philip Larkin. Introduction People regard Romeo and Juliet as a stereo typical romantic love story. In certain ways it does conform to expectations of love for example the famous balcony scene. The setting is peaceful, dark and romantic with references to light. However Shakespeare also shows attitudes towards relationships between men and woman weren’t straight forward in Elizabethan England.
Wilde uses clever puns to create farce within the play and often mocks the moral values of love within a marriage. In Act 1, after Lane leaves the room after a conversation referring to his views on marriage; Algernon says “Lane’s views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.” He refers to marriage as a “moral responsibility”, which could imply a homosexual undertone on his behalf. Since Wilde himself was gay it is almost as if he is trying to hint through to everybody the fact that he is homosexual, and by doing this we get a hint of Wilde’s personality through the play.