William Shakespeare

Violence for Macbeth is part of the job when it comes to fighting for your country. A good day for a soldier would mean having his enemy’s head fixed upon a stake at the end of the battle (Shakespeare 131). Macbeth knows warfare very well. The weird sisters and Lady Macbeth knows that within Macbeth […]

Macbeth shall be named as Thane of Cawdor and then king; Banquo, although he shall not himself rule in Scotland, will be father to future generations of kings as the prophecy of the three witches go. It was not fate but free will. Macbeth believed fate would lead him to be king and he believed […]

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet,” Prince Hamlet is an incredibly dynamic main character and the protagonist in this 16th century, Elizabethan times play. He is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet of Denmark, and the nephew of Claudius, who also marries his mother and murders his father for the throne. Hamlet’s […]

Love happens, but not without consequences. William Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is about a tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, but unfortunately such love is forbidden to their families, but nonetheless, it brings two members of the families together. Romeo of the Montague family and Juliet of the Capulet family. These families have […]

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the connections of all characters throughout the entire plot are really complicated. One of the most complex relationships is the relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet. The love between them should be categorized as and an ‘ugly love’ because these two characters never really show their affection to each other clearly, especially […]

Feminism is always a big problem in our society, today we are living a society that mostly is governed by men, we can barely imagine what a women dominated society would look like, we have fought gender equality for centuries, clearly we would never have in today’s society without looking at novels or films. In […]

Presenting Ophelia as a prominent female character in the play could be because she has a very close relationship with the main character, Hamlet, or because there seems to be two distinctly different sides to her. Ophelia appears to have this happy, lively side to her, yet later in the play, a much darker side […]

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the norms of the characterization of women are tested through the character of Lady Macbeth. In the early modern period, women were often portrayed as fragile, weak, and vulnerable. While the late sixteenth-century was a time where women had no say, and were often disregarded, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as the […]

Macbeth is the story of a Scottish general who receives a prophecy from three witches. They predict that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and one day king and that his friend Banquo will be the father of kings. After defeating the Norweigians and the Scottish rebels, King Duncan makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, which […]

Throughout the play, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, it is clear that Lady Macbeth is the mastermind behind Macbeth’s killings and is responsible for all the death and damage caused by Macbeth. It is shown from the start that Lady Macbeth manipulates and controls Macbeth because of her ambition and greed for power. The first time […]