Miss Campbell March 28, 2011 English 2201 Adam loder Comparison Essay The movies Twelfth Night and She’s the Man both have some similarities and differences that the Authors expressed in their own ways. The ways the author uses these is through setting and tone. The movie Twelfth Night was a play written by William Shakespeare. The setting is the time and place of where the action takes place. The setting is a main point in this movie because when Viola discovers her brother is missing and she thinks he is dead, she goes into disguise as her brother.
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.
This discussion will establish the connections I perceived between the Greek views on life during the Hellenistic Age and a funeral oration given by Pericles during the Peloponnesian War. The Greek World-View, love for symmetry, and balance is displayed by the virtues attributed to Athens and its Athenians in Pericles’ speech. The Greek World-View was a collaboration of philosophical standpoints. They recognized the dignity, and worth of every individual. Every person in Athens was open/encouraged to pursue a balanced life style; a mixture of civic duties, the finest education, arts, and entertainment.
Polanski’s 1971 version uses settings which are trying to mirror the original play as closely as possible. The storyline takes place in the same timeframe as the text, and castles are very prevalent, which much of the story taking place within castle walls. Inside the castles, the sight of farm animals further reiterates the medieval setting. Vast open expanses of land, such as where Macbeth met the witches, are used in many scenes. The costumes used also have a strong medieval feel to them.
Sally Nguyen English 12 Mrs. Heather Carreiro December 1st, 2014 Patriarchy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare illustrates the idea of patriarchy through characters like Theseus, Egeus and also in the fairy world through Oberon; this play shows what male domination is and what difference between genders in late of 16th century. The idea of patriarchy appears between relationships like marry couples, lovers or family, however there aren’t many choices available for women in general and specifically for women roles in this play. The play begins with the conversation between Hippolyta and Theseus about the wedding night. When Theseus pointed out, Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword And when thy love doing thee injuries. But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling.
Topic: In some of Shakespeare’s plays fate is the unseen motivator of mortals. Which character acts as fate or the motivator in ‘A Midsummer’s Nights Dream? Shakespeare’s known for many of his plays, such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. One of his favourite themes for his plays is fate, but to activate that theme/idea he requires a character to act out as an unseen motivator of fate. The play Midsummer’s Night Dream is no exception.
II. Lysander and Hermia demonstrate the beginning stages of love or passionate love. a. Shakespeare criticizes love from the viewpoint of Hermia’s father, Egeus as well as being challenged by society itself. b. The challenges of love are being portrayed when Hermia’s father, Egeus’s, refuses her to marry Lysander but Demetrius (Carter, 2).
In a Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeare offers insight on mans conflict with the emotional characteristics of human behavior. Athens represents the logical side and the fairy world represents the wilder, irrational side where nothing seems to follow any sort of structure. Bottom character brings these two elements to the play in many ways. Nick bottom first introduced in the casting of “Pyramus and Thisbe”(1.2). Bottom is ready to take on anything.
The reason Paris, Romeo and Juliet are so young in the play is because during Shakespeare’s time, people died at a young age, hence they married younger. Shakespeare’s style is very poetic. He uses irony and drama to the audience to feel suspense. Shakespeare uses figurative language, metaphors and imagery to highlight the themes and
In the play Romeo and Juliet, the audience often leaves thinking “if only… then…” they remember back to the parts that could have easily been avoided which would have made the ending turn out differently, and perhaps Romeo and Juliet would not have suffered such a tragic end. Shakespeare purposely wrote the prologue, which clearly states the end, “[a] pair of star-crossed lovers take their life… Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife,” (Prologue 6, 8), to send a message to the audience. There is a common misconception that the prologue is a foreshadowing of the two lovers’ end because foreshadowing is when there is a hint, but the prologue declares the ending, so it is not a forshadow. Shakespeare’s purpose of the prologue is to