Draft Essay Look closely at Mercutio’s Queen Mab Speech. Are dreams depicted as dangerous or attractive? Written within the Elizabethan ear, one of the most remembered scenes of the classic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was the Queen Mab Speech, beautifully narrated by Mercutio. A text immersed with different frame of reference, to a degree filled with unearthly and majestic beings that bring joy, and on the other hand brimming with the cruelty of a mere nightmare. The fairy tale has become into something much darker, though this dark vision is a portrayal of society.
Romeo and Juliet: 1968 vs. 1996 Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous plays on earth and one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. It deals with a young couple who are genuinely in love but unfortunately they come from rival families. The opening of the play in which the brawl, involving the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, occurs in Franco Zefferelli’s adaptation and Baz Luhrman’s adaptation are different when you consider clothing, violence, and music. In Zefferelli’s 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet the clothing is more medieval. The Montague’s are dressed in dark green and blue garments and tights with navy blue caps.
In Twelfth Night, this is demonstrated by the numerous complications caused by Viola's physical disguise, as well as Orsino’s self deception. Although the characters themselves illustrate the concept of deception, the setting contributes to the theme. Illyria was a mystical location where weird and absurd thing could take place, therefore causing people to behave like fools. The fact that Shakespeare uses this particular location gives him the advantage of breaking the boundaries and stirring up an eccentric storyline where the outcome would be unpredictable. The main form of deception that most readers would look to, would be Viola’s physical disguise as a male ’Cesario’, which is extremely pivotal to the main plot that contributes to the comedy side to the play.
Commonly regarded as Euripides’ most controversial work, Medea is a powerful story of how one’s impassioned love can turn into furious hared. As a tragedy, it is completely unlike the Aristotelian work, yet it has a nerve jarring impact due to the unforseen climax. Throughout the play, Euripides has positioned minor characters to subsidize the major characters. The clever work of Euripides also suggests that the less significant characters are used in the play to develop the plot of the play and also to reveal and recall the events that could not have been shown. As a result of this, secondary character present dramatic importance throughout the play.
Wicked is a musical based off of a novel written by Gregory Maguire, titled “Wicked- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” The Novel corresponded with the ever popular story of the Wizard of Oz, but rather than following Dorothy and Glinda, it followed the life of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west, and her choices. Now all of the aforementioned aspects of this show are considered its plot, but its story is very different entirely. The actors, directors, producers, choreographers, musicians, designers and so many more worked for months and moths to create the best show they could, but once it hit the Broadway stage, their dreams came crashing down. They were immediately given
She is a character who appears in critical parts of the play, and adds crucial information by her language, gestures and actions. Her importance is so much to a great extent that her presence is felt on stage even if she is not in reality on stage. The foundation of the story would be inconclusive without her additional lies and secrets, which she is able to puppeteer into a web of fiction and falsehood, fabricating the facts. Her great looks and her use of pity allow her a stranglehold on men, showing that she is more than capable of “dissembling” even the respectable of males, such as reverend Samuel Parris. Her minor role in speech can be compared to the vast dialogue of other characters such as Proctor.
In what could be seen as a noted the director’s specific style, Pan’s Labyrinth convincingly portrays these ideas and messages with constant reference to gothic fairy tale allusions, motifs and techniques such as a combination of colour, lighting and transitional links to establish a seductively foreboding tone that both warns us as an audience and draws us further into the twisted depths of Pan’s Labyrinth. Guillermo Del Toro establishes a piece of cinematic art that traces horror right back to the essentials of our childhoods and human tradition; fantasy and fairytale. Fantasy explores our imagination within the film with freedom not readily available in the typical cinematic experience. The presence of fantasy is apparent in Pan’s Labyrinth from beginning to end. Del Toro utilises fantastical elements -commonly seen in traditional folklore- in the real world.
I find Moliere’s play, Tartuffe, to be entertaining for the underlying message of historical hypocrisy which it sheds to light. After reading the comedy of Tartuffe, I can only agree that it is an intellectual whirlwind of classical genius which tantalizes even the modern mind by echoing to us the importance of scrutinizing the narratives and analyzing the flaws and follies alike which are evident even within our own era. Tartuffe stands out to me because of the power that resonated from the creation of this societal satire and the fact that unlike other works of the era which were forced to fall in line with a strict code of adherence generated by the aristocracy of the classical era, this piece served as a direct challenge to the narrative
Discuss the representation of power and gender in this play. Are competing definitions of masculinity presented? Do these definitions conform/or challenge the representations of masculinity during Elizabethan/Jacobean times? Please refer to the characters of: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Lady Macduff and the witches in your answer. |PARAGRAPGH TOPIC |TOPIC SENTENCE AND 3-4 KEY IDEAS |KEY SCENES AND KEY QUOTES | |INTRODUCTION |Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most studied tragedies of all | | |*Include title of play and playwright |time.
Meva Tinsley Monson/Lovett Sophomore World Literature 4 May 2009 The Mystery of Disguise Although the movie 10 Things I Hate About You displays some deceptive moments, deception is the key motive in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Both physically and emotionally, The Taming of the Shrew captivates deception within the mastery of disguise. Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew tells the story of two daughters in which the eldest must get married before the youngest. The modest Bianca has no deficiency of admirers (Gremio, Hortensio, and Lucentio), but Baptista, her loving father, demands that she not marry until her shrewish sister Katherine becomes engaged. The many suitors to Bianca persuade the money hungry Petruchio to woo Katherine.