Essays on William Shakespeare

In the contemporary world which is currently encumbered in a slew of politically and socially heated debacles, it is relevant in the field of literary analysis to correlate underlying themes within even fictional texts in order to ultimately garner an understanding of how conflicting ideologies...

In his movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Coriolanus Ralph Fiennes is forced to abandon the Plutarch’s complex literary concepts and focus solely on the central themes due to time restraints. In Fiennes’s film, he uses his access to modern film techniques in order to...

A sense of self or personal identity is a set of attributes, affiliations, relationships and beliefs that are infused in a person. Through analysis of The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare the reader comes to understand that for Rome, valor is the chief virtue...

William Shakespeare was a famous playwright who used plays and poems to talk about different societal phenomena. In Hamlet, he tries to show how the ambition and desire of seeking justice cause the tragic deaths of characters. In the play, Shakespeare’s use of poison is...

The Shakespeare’s play Hamlet opens with the appearance of the ghost and it plays an important role throughout the performance. The role of the ghost is to sustain the plot because it is notified only by general terms “ghost”, ”spirit”, “it”, “this thing”, “goblin”. The...

In Coriolanus, Volumnia is a strong, powerful mother who has raised the seemingly perfect soldier. She is constantly talking of the joys of war and how she hopes to see her son wounded. These wounds and the admiration that comes with them are a place...

Although Ralph Fiennes’ film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus sticks largely to the facts as reported in the original story, it differs noticeably from Plutarch’s Life of Coriolanus in terms of how the play tends to compress some events in order to increase the dramatization. Furthermore,...