Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragedy so it is most crucial that the adaptation keeps the important aspects which make the play what it is. Thus we can see that aspects of the tragedy such as manipulation, the tragic hero and his down fall are present in the film but they are beautifully entwined into the plot so that modern audience can still see the connection. I noticed that racism played such a big part in the film. In the modern society, racism is still present but it
Day’s Reality to Night’s Imagination In Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a lot of ‘role playing,’ a lot of juxtapositions that question the boundaries of ideas, of people, and of reality and truth. The play overall uses several groups of characters set in two time periods, night and day, to show the progression of love. As Shakespeare questions the validity of love within the play he broadens love to represent much of life’s greater truths and questions. The periods of night and day are also important as Shakespeare equates these periods into two realms of life; the day as reality and reason, and the night as imaginary and irrational. By setting this foundation, Shakespeare goes on to argue the value of genres that show imagination and irrationality and their ability to tell more truth than reality and rationality.
Roderigo discloses his trust for Iago in the opening lines of the play. In addition, Iago tells several things about himself to Roderigo, including the fact that he trusts Roderigo with the knowledge that he serves Othello, only to further his intentions. However, I am sure that Shakespeare’s use of Iago as a confidante to Roderigo was not to show the same kind of friendship that Roderigo has for Iago, but to disclose his deceit - to use Roderigo. Iago summed this up himself, “I am not what I am”. (Act 1, Scene 1, line 65).
Gaines Summary 1 A Gathering of Old Men is characterized as a theatrical novel and is original because it has multiple-perspective narration. In which all kinds of individuals—white and black, male and female, old and young, and rich and poor—have something in common to say about the murder of Beau Boutan. The use of imagery and foreshadowing is really what makes the story come alive and sets the scene. The major scene of the novel is somewhere between slapstick comedy and social drama, prefigures the complex tone of the novel, as serious or volatile situations are often diffused with scenes of comic relief. This novel is also reminiscent of Greek tragedy in its structure.
'Most novels are written to reflect real events in real worlds'. Discuss the features that make a novel you have studied seem realistic (or unrealistic), and explain why realism is appropriate (or inappropriate) to the novel's main themes Many novels reflect true events in the world in some way and are written to feel realistic to the reader. This is to make the ideas in the novel easier to take on board and more relevant to the reader's actual lives. One such novel is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. This novel uses the emotions of the narrator, the actions and events in the story and the way that they connect with and clearly stem from society at the time that the novel was written, to make the novel easy to relate to for a reader and allows them to take on board the lessons and themes of The Handmaid's Tale in a more personal and meaningful way.
Sophocles adores exploiting the use of dramatic irony in his prose. Dramatic irony is the theatrical effect achieved by leading an audience or reader to understand the disparity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain
Another example is fables, or short tales that usually teach a lesson. Drama also became popular. They were plays that ranged from sad tragedies to humorous comedies. In addition, Greek art often showed loyalty to gods. Vases and cups showed scenes from famous myths.
Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Cratinus were among the best playwrights who ancient critics recognized for their literary works. Aristophanes’ plays are the only surviving samples of the literary genre conventionally referred to as old comedy. Old comedies were characteristic of topical issues touching in the society and real personalities. New Comedy transcended topical issues to generalized contexts together with stock characters. The move was because playwrights had internalized the perspectives of the people’s cultures after changes.
Sophocles who was born around 496 B.C.E - 406 B.C.E was credited with skillfully developing irony as a literary technique. He wrote drama which simultaneously utilized comedy and tragedy; he was one of the first to incorporate both into his plays. Sophocles dramatic plays were influenced by religious and political traditions in the sense that most of his plays came from preexistent religious myth. Euripides on the other hand, born 485 B.C.E - 406 B.C.E was a Sophist, which was a group of people who claim to be able to teach virtue. He used many of his plays to challenge the social norms during his time.
Another commonality between Pere Goriot and The Canterbury Tales is that Balzac manipulates the description of the physical appearance and dress of the characters to hint to the reader about their personality as well as to inject his own opinion of them. For example, when Vautrin is introduced Balzac describes him as a “stern judge, his glance seemed to pierce to the bottom of every issue, every conscience, every emotion” and “his debtors would sooner have died than not repay him.” Here, the reader can immediately recognize Vautrin as being the possible villain in the novel and could also make an appropriate assumption that Balzac, the writer, didn’t really like Vautrin as a character. Furthermore, the juxtaposition between the physical description of Eugene and his actions throughout the novel, allows the reader to come to certain