William Shakespeare

Corruption is usually understood as the misuse of public power for private gain. It can be found in a variety of forms, presented by different authors and exhibited by various characters. The central premise of William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, is that corruption permeates the lives of people who are closest to it. It can be […]

Hamlet and Agamemnon are two classic plays that both include all the common elements of Greek tragedy. They also share similar themes related to the abuse of power, revenge, deceit, loyalty, love and loss. The protagonists in both stories are characters of high status that suffer an inevitable downfall caused by their own character flaws […]

Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Throughout the play Hamlet suffers from an Identity Crisis and attempts to fix this problem throughout the play. Hamlet experiences being betrayed by someone who he thought he could trust which has sparked Hamlet to want revenge. Hamlet loses his identity […]

I have chosen to talk about the psychoanalytical approach on “Hamlet” because this is the exemplification of the Oedipus complex that Sigmund Freud defined and also this is one of the best exemplifications of what is Id, Superego and Ego. Hamlet is just a projection of Shakespeare. The play is inspired by the author’s life, […]

Fate is something that is destined to happen or turn out in a specific way. It is one aspect of our lives that sets the path for our lifetime. It cannot be altered or edited no matter what happens, it is just how we are destined to live our lives. It can lead to either […]

Lady Macbeth plays the important role in the play of encouraging Macbeth to carry out the regicide. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have a strong bond at the beginning of the play, which would have been incredibly unusual to audiences in the Elizabethan Era. She is presented as more and more evil as the play goes […]

Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth begins as a strong, ruthless, manipulative character and dies as a vulnerable, guilt-ridden, weeping woman. This was more typical of the view of women prevalent in the 17th century, which was that they were not the dominant gender. Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in Act 1 scene 5 as wanting to be more […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the first William Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece. He wrote the comedy in 1596. The play is about the love between four couples, they all represent different types of love: mature love, youthful love, and renewed love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is classified as a romantic comedy, however, from my point of […]

Lady Macbeth has been called, “the fourth witch” and “the fiend-like Queen”. Do you agree with these estimates? The form of Macbeth is a dramatic play. All the more explicitly, it is a disaster. The most straight forward meaning of a disaster would be “a play with an unhappy ending”. While this is true, it […]

In Shakespeares’ two plays Macbeth and King Lear, the two protagonists, King Lear and Macbeth can both be described as tragic heroes. A tragic hero is defined as someone who has perished into a inferior state from a higher position of power because of their own actions. This requires the tragic hero to begin with […]