... a theme that will be played out the next five acts. Like the poles of an electrical circuit between which runs the high voltage of emotions, love, and hate create a dialogue and dialectic, a dynamic tension which powers the action and generates heat. When I noticed that the two plays this season had settings is Verona, I decided to find out a thing or two about the place. Reading the section on "climate" in Harold Rose's Yur Guide to Northern Italy, I noted that "Italy is a very hot place in the summer, also quite humid." After reading this I then realized that a great deal of the violence in Romeo and Juliet become more understandable; they're all short temp ...

... act, Hamlet appears to be very straightforward in his actions and inner state. When questioned by Gertrude about his melancholy appearance, Hamlet says, "Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not 'seems.'" (1.2.76). This is to say, "I am what I appear to be." Later in act I, Hamlet makes a clear statement about his state when he commits himself to revenge. In this statement the play makes an easy to follow shift. This shift consists of Hamlet giving up the role of a student and mourning son. Hamlet says, "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment a ...

... toward believing them while Banqou says, "And oftentimes, to win us to do our harm, the instruments of darkness tells us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence". (Act I, Scene 3) A thoughtful yet skeptical Banquo speaks his words here very carefully to MacBeth in order to remain honorable. He doesn't want to come right out and tell MacBeth to be cautious in his actions, so he tries to soften his words so that MacBeth might contemplate his future movements. However, MacBeth does not take heed of Banquo's warnings. Because of the witch's predictions and his impatience, MacBeth kills in order to get what he expects is coming to him. W ...

... From her first response, "No, I have heard nothing"(344). Ismene reveals her passivity and helplessness in the light of Creon's decree. Thus, from the start, Ismene is characterized as traditionally "feminine", a helpless woman that pays no mind to political affairs. Doubting the wisdom of her sisters plan to break the law and bury Polyneices, Ismene argues: We who are women should not contend with men; we who are weak are ruled by the stronger, so that we must obey....(346) Once again Ismene's words clearly state her weak, feminine character and helplessness within her own dimensions. Antigone, not happy with her sisters response chides her sister for ...

... marriage of his mother and his uncle, while in the second soliloquy he decides in himself if action is the best road to take. Therefore, the soliloquies are important because it give the reader the insight into Hamlets inner thoughts at a given time in the play. In both soliloquies the idea of incest is addressed. Hamlet was upset because not long after his father died his mother remarried his uncle. As a result Hamlet's mother was actually married to her dead husbands brother, which was conceded incest. "[O God! A beast hat wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer] (1.2.156-157). This quote vividly expresses how Hamlet feels about the quick remar ...

... him. Despite the kind priest taking him in and feeding him, Valjean decides to take the silver from the table. In the run he gets captured be the police. But instead of telling the truth about Valjeans thievery, he gives the criminal more silver and sends the police away. He makes Jean Valjean promise that he will become an honest man with this silver. The next scene in 10 years later set in a factory where we meat the other main character, Fantine. As she is reading a letter her perverted boss snatches it up with his hands and reads it aloud. Fantine has a daughter that lives with an innkeeper and his wife who are the only ones in this whole play that give s ...

... "repulsive." A simple mistake by someone that is low in the society, but totally changes the meaning of the sentence. This humor is obvious to everybody watching that Bottom had made a mistake. This type of humor, while obvious, sometimes doesn't portray the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this. Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other meanings that added to the play. One good example is the character of Puck. Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief. His attitude toward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one. He does not take life seriously, he only does what is fun. ...

... had to remain socially inferior as they belonged to the commoner class. To them was a way to express their emotions within a constricting class structure. Thus, the fundamental themes of plays are conflicts between humanity and the feudalistic system. It is largely due to this humanistic quality of the art that it gained such an enduring popularity among the general public of those days and remains this way today. Early was much different from what is seen today and was comprised mainly of large ensemble dances performed by women. Most of these women acted as prostitutes off stage and finally the government banned women from the stage in an effort to protect pub ...

... the witches are female or not. "[T]hey are aggressive and authoritative, but seem to have power only to create petty mischeif" Although , unlike the witches, it does not show phisically, perhaps the biggest example of devaluation of the female gender role occurs in Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth showed many features that attributed to her reversed gender role. Her " obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness give her ascendancy over her husband's faltering virtue".3 She was considered great because once she had it in her mind what she wanted her unflinching determination in getting it was superior to all others. "The magnitude of her resolution almost c ...

... and undeniably the greatest French Romantic landscape painter, Camille Corot.” One of Corots one of the landscape paintings, which is alike to Gericault’s is “View of Rome: The Bridge and Castel San’t Angelo with Cupola Of St. Peters. Corot, throughout the course of a two-year trip in Italy, where he scouted the countryside of around Rome, painted many of his landscapes. Romantics focused on nature, but for Gericault this was true, but he also understood a romantic had to go to “extraordinary lengths in trying to achieve a maximum of authenticity” (Janson, 431-36). We see this example in his own painting “Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct,” which was part of a ...