The dialogue is written as a sonnet, this is important because the way Romeo speaks is like a poem with ten syllables a line. The poem he speaks in is about him having true love on first sight for Juliet. Romeo uses religious imagery throughout this exchange. He chooses the extended metaphor of himself being a Pilgrim and Juliet being a Relic, In act one scene Five Romeo says “”My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to stand, to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss” this is relevant to religion because during the sixteenth century pilgrims who had sinned used to travel to important relics to kiss or touch so they could be rinsed of sin, so Romeo referring to Juliet as a relic is expressing his love to her. The depiction of love is shown as true.
Macbeths downfall is due to one thing and one thing only. Ambition. However, he did not act alone. The fire of his desire for power were fed not only by his own hunger, but also by his wife and the three witches. There are some that may blame those very witches that Macbeth encounters as he and Banquo make their way home from the battlefield.
Nabokov’s manipulation of the English language and his incredible work with descriptions, makes this novel a masterpiece. However, its incredibly anti-feminist nature needs to be discussed more, instead of being dismissed based on its eloquence. The effect that this novel has had in modern media shows that we cannot blame its sexism on its publication date of 1955. Lolita proves to be a detriment to the feminist movement, with its depictions of abuse, a lack of strong female characters and the normalization of pedophilia. Especially today, with positive advances surrounding sexual assault claims and the recent #MeToo campaign, this novel is a step back in the feminist movement.
Some writings are enhanced by myths and others are built upon them. Pygmalion, the play, written by George Bernard Shaw, is a prime example of a literary work that has been built upon a myth, and in fact the play would not attain the literary merit it has if not for the myth, Metamorphoses. In the myth, Pygmalion, a sculptor, falls in love with his scuplture. In the play, Henry Higgins, a phonetics teacher, falls in love with his pupil. However, Pygmalion marries his creation, and Higgins does not.
Shakespeare satirizes the hyperbole of the allusions used by conventional poets, which even by the Elizabethan era, had become cliché, predictable, and uninspiring. This sonnet compares the Poet’s mistress to a number of natural beauties; each time making a point of his mistress’ obvious inadequacy in such comparisons; she cannot hope to stand up to the beauties of the natural world. The first two quatrains compare the speaker’s mistress to aspects of nature, such as snow or coral; each comparison ending unflatteringly for the mistress. In the final couplet, the speaker proclaims his love for his mistress by declaring that he makes no false comparisons, the implication being that other poets do precisely that. Shakespeare's sonnet aims to do the opposite, by indicating that his mistress is the ideal object of his affections because of her genuine qualities, and that she is more worthy of his love than the paramours of other poets who are more
Not only did Abigail accuse innocent people of witchcraft, but also had an affair with a married man, John Proctor. In the late 1600’s it was said to be a sin to sleep with a married man. Because of her affair with John Proctor, I think that Abigail ended up falling in love with John and wanted his wife out of the picture, hence the reason why she falsely accuses her. “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!
Some theories suggest that Macbeth was influenced by the supernatural but some believe that Macbeth himself was responsible for his actions and inevitable downfall. Macbeth ignores the voice of his own psyche and let himself carried away by the predictions of the witches. He is aware that he is going to commit a murder, but nevertheless he lets himself mislead by the three weird sisters and his own wife Lady Macbeth. The ghost and the apparitions also influenced Macbeth a lot. We say
In Peter Biskind’s mind the ultimate form of conformity was to get married. Marriage took different forms in each of the films. In Practical Magic if any of the Owens women were to actually fall truly in love the husband was destined to die because of a curse set on the family. In a way this was a way of preventing the Owens women from conforming to the desires of the society in which they lived. In Bell, Book, and Candle Gillian, a witch, was unable to fall in love unless she was willing to give up her magical powers.
The third contrasts the Elizabethan Society with the modern one, which gives more scientifically and psychological reasons for the mental illness of Lady Macbeth. The rest of the task compares both interpretations of her mental illness and what took her to do such things and why did she end with hallucinations and insomnia which later drove her to her death. Word count: 234 “Macbeth” or “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is a play written by William Shakespeare around the 1606. The tragedy is about a man called Macbeth which is a brave fighter who is winning important battles for the King Duncan in Scotland. Three witches appear once and predicted his future; among those predictions was the one they said that soon Macbeth will reach the crown of Scotland supplanting the recent king, Duncan.
Bradbury’s diction is very creative. His word choice makes one wonder how he comes up with everything, but it all falls together in an artistic way. The way Bradbury strings sentences together is so unusual. In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty, a fireman, and Guy Montag, the protagonist, are discussing books. On page 62, Beatty says, “Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.” Using words such as “drear” and “torrent” makes Bradbury’s diction distinguishable from other authors, while also being captivating.