… latest production of King Lear. What is tragedy? The Greek philosopher Aristotle summarised tragedy as a fatal flaw causing an important person to fall from happiness and prosperity in to catastrophe resulting in the hero moving from ignorance to…

… there is always one individual who influences the major character and considerably advances the plot. In I Henry IV by William Shakespeare, Falstaff is such a character. Sir John Falstaff is perhaps the most complex comic character ever invented.…

… Saying something and then actually doing it is a rare event in today's society. Unfortunately, staying true to our word has been a problem for many years now. William Shakespeare's Hamlet perfectly illustrates this through the powerful protagonist…

… of things to suggest this is a racist play I don't think that racism actually dominates the play, even though it has a racist theme. There is a romantic union between black and white which gets destroyed because most people think the relationship…

… Brady's essay, she describes the routine work of a housewife, and explains the routine work is mainly related to housework, and to taking care of all the members in the family. She writes: <Tab/>I want a wife who will keep my house clean.…

… mainly portrays the tragedy committed by a nine-year-old boy, Arnold, who has a big family of six people accidentally kills his older brother, Eugene. This pair of brothers has a pretty good relationship because they just act like typically brothers…

… I spent most of my life with only my mom, who has been emotionally unstable. I still remember that she went to a fortune-teller in order to get "hints" about her marriage failure and my fate with me after she got divorced. The fortune-teller started…

… Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometim…

… 3 Scene 5 and there is a definite mixture of emotions. This ranges from love and desperation from Juliet to empathy and anxiety from the audience. The first evidence of drama is in line twenty-four when Romeo says 'Come, death, and welcome! Juliet…

… Gender Perspectives Psychoanalytic and gender literary criticisms are important as individual analyses and are similar in some respects, namely sexual and gender issues, which make them ideal choices for analyzing Great Expectations. Reading the novel…