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In King Lear, Shakespeare proves the hypothesis of an indifferent universe in which human life is meaningless and brutal with the motif of eyesight and blindness. In the beginning of the novel, King Lear asks his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to express their love for him using their words. While Goneril and Regan do…

It is so straightforward in style thus unavoidable in a subject that it barely appears to be a thing that has been composed and acted. For Mr. Arthur Miller has looked with empathy into the hearts of some customary Americans and unobtrusively exchanged their expectation and anguish to the theater. This is genuine when we…

What makes Hamlet special compared to other tales of tragedy is that the action we expect to see, is tediously postponed while Hamlet tries to obtain more knowledge about what he is doing; you are never certain on what will come next. This play poses many questions that other plays would simply take for granted….

The American Dream is the idea that in society, upward mobility is possible for everyone irrespective of where they were born or what class they were born into, will attain their own version of success. I personally think that the “American Dream” has been overrated. Let’s face it, it’s gone. Not only is this a…

“A Raisin in the Sun” was a fascinating reading experience for me as I found the author’s voice to be so uniquely honest and serene as she lay the words down to her ingeniously written narrative. The emotions in her words transcended the pages and it becomes a deeply empathetic and sympathetic experience for the…

One of the most interesting and tragic ideas about reading Oedipus by Sophocles is that we know what Oedipus does not. We know that he killed his father. The idea of fate, or fulfilling a prophecy is complicated in this story. Oedipus, has no control of this story line, and could no way have changed…

The characters Iago and Othello are similar in many aspects, just as they too differ in various ways. One of the many things that these two characters have in common is the fact that they both claim to be and come across as being fearless and confident. Although Iago and Othello both portray their fearlessness…

Throughout the course of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet’s character changes a lot. He encounters quite a few different things though the whole show that change him into what almost seems like a completely different person at the end. Some of the ways that Hamlet changes throughout the play is he gets a little bit…

Francis Bacon once said, “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present”. Essentially, what this means is that in order for there to be good, there must be bad, as well. People can be good or bad, or more likely, a mix of the two. Darkness resides within everyone,…

Ambition is the aspect of Macbeth that makes it such a real and terrifying play: the ambition to be greater can drive an individual to do what they would have never done before. In Macbeth, specifically, it causes the complete change of ideals and mindsets to reach those promises. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions lead them…