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Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

Romeo and Juliet: The Film

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

Shakespeare’s Major Themes

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

Shakespeare and Film Related to Henry V

with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

Three Cinematic Visions of Hamlet

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

The Notebook/A Therapist's View

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

Themes/Anne Bradstreet

A 4 page essay that analyzes 4 poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Puritan poet and writer, as well as a devoted wife and loving...

Musset's Lorenzaccio & Hamlet

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Love

not take both male and female genitalia to create a loving, devoted relationship; rather, all it requires is the commitment from t...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

Interpretive Analysis of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper presents a description as well as an interpretive analysis of the final play by William Shakespeare in a ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

The Film Chinatown by Director Roman Polanski

Six pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown. This paper considers the ...

Central Characters, the Ideals of Strength and Devotion in Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves Films by Lars von Trier

are based on a childrens story which made an impression on him when he was a child. The childrens story is a tale in which "a litt...

Enlightenment Ideals in Two Films

This essay pertains to "V for Vendetta" and "Children of Men" and provides a discussion of how both films support Enlightenment i...

Two Novels and Gender Roles

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

Social Movements and the Human Heart

Reviewing key quotes from Bell Hooks and Chris Dixon this paper emphasizes the importance of ideologies such as love, loyalty, and...

English Literature and Love from the Romantic to Victorian Eras

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

Comparative Protagonist Analysis in the Works of T.S. Eliot and Alfred Lord Tennyson

thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...