Themes:
Revenge, it acts as a catalyst for the events and decisions made in the play. Hamlet relies so heavily on revenge which is basically what causes hid downfall in the end and what helps make this play a tragedy.
Betrayal, in the play, numerous character feel like the people they love have wronged them in some sort of way. For exemple, Hamlet feels betrayed by his mother because she married King Hamlet's brother.
Insanity, insanity is mentioned several times in the play. Characters like Hamlet and Ophelia both reveal acts of insanity. For exemple, Hamlet is so obsessed with revenge.
Mistery of death, it is mysterious because Hamlet is confused on life after death and what it is like. He ponders death from the perspectives if spiritual aftermath and physical reminders of it.
Love, love is discussed many times in the play. It is evident through Ophelia and Hamlet and King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. Being a main theme in the play, love affects many situations and finds a way to make itself evident.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Romeo and Juliet
Symbols: Poison In his first appearance, in Act 2, scene 2, Friar Lawrece remarks that every plant, herb, and stone has its own special properties, and that nothing exists in nature that cannot be put to both good and bad uses.The sleeping potion he gives Juliet is concocted to cause the appearance of death, not death itself, but through circumstances beyond the Friar’s control, the potion does bring about a fatal result:Romeo's suicide. As this example shows, human beings tend to cause death even without intending to. In Act 1, scene 4, Mercutio delivers a dazzling speech about the fairy Queen Mab, who rides through the night on her tiny wagon bringing dreams to sleepers. Through the Queen Mab imagery, Mercutio suggests that all desires and fantasies are as nonsensical and fragile as Mab, and that they are basically corrupting. This point of view contrasts starkly with that of Romeo and Juliet, who see their love as real and ennobling.
Themes: In Romeo and Juliet, Love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves. This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide.This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of love that Romeo and Juliet can make. It is only through death that they can preserve their love, and their love is so profound that they are willing to end their lives in its defense. Much of Romeo and Juliet involves the lovers’ struggles against public and social institutions that either explicitly or implicitly oppose the existence of their love. These institutions often come into conflict with each other.This institutions make their love more difficult.
Themes: In Romeo and Juliet, Love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves. This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide.This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of love that Romeo and Juliet can make. It is only through death that they can preserve their love, and their love is so profound that they are willing to end their lives in its defense. Much of Romeo and Juliet involves the lovers’ struggles against public and social institutions that either explicitly or implicitly oppose the existence of their love. These institutions often come into conflict with each other.This institutions make their love more difficult.
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Hamlet
-Themes: What separates hamlet from other revenge plays is that the action we expect to see, particularly from Hamlet himself, is continually postponed while Hamlet tries to obtain more certain knowledge about what he is doing.
The mistery of death: In the aftermath of his father’s murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death. He ponders both the spiritual aftermath of death, embodied in the ghost, and the physical remainders of the dead. Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet’s deepest questions.Hamlet’s grief and misery is such that he frequently longs for death to end his suffering, but he fears that if he commits suicide, he will be consigned to eternal suffering in hell because of the Christian religion’s prohibition of suicide.
The nation as a diseased body: Everything is connected in Hamlet, including the welfare of the royal family and the health of the state as a whole.There are explicit connections between the moral legitimacy of a ruler and the health of the nation. Denmark is frequently described as a physical body made ill by the moral corruption of Claudius and Gertrude, and many observers interpret the presence of the ghost as a supernatural omen indicating that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
Symbols: symbolism is a crucial component in the play of Hamlet because it develops the theme of death through various symbols. Poison proves the theme of death because many of characters die from it. Hamlet's costume changes creates the theme of death because he continues to wear black clothes till he goes mad. Ophelia's flowers demonstrate the theme of death through the handing out of symbolic flowers after her father past away. The Ghost shows the theme of death because of his immortal state of being and his revolution of the play. The Yoricks skull develops the theme of death because it is the first time Hamlet sees death physically and it changes Hamlet's views on death.
The mistery of death: In the aftermath of his father’s murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death. He ponders both the spiritual aftermath of death, embodied in the ghost, and the physical remainders of the dead. Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet’s deepest questions.Hamlet’s grief and misery is such that he frequently longs for death to end his suffering, but he fears that if he commits suicide, he will be consigned to eternal suffering in hell because of the Christian religion’s prohibition of suicide.
The nation as a diseased body: Everything is connected in Hamlet, including the welfare of the royal family and the health of the state as a whole.There are explicit connections between the moral legitimacy of a ruler and the health of the nation. Denmark is frequently described as a physical body made ill by the moral corruption of Claudius and Gertrude, and many observers interpret the presence of the ghost as a supernatural omen indicating that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
Symbols: symbolism is a crucial component in the play of Hamlet because it develops the theme of death through various symbols. Poison proves the theme of death because many of characters die from it. Hamlet's costume changes creates the theme of death because he continues to wear black clothes till he goes mad. Ophelia's flowers demonstrate the theme of death through the handing out of symbolic flowers after her father past away. The Ghost shows the theme of death because of his immortal state of being and his revolution of the play. The Yoricks skull develops the theme of death because it is the first time Hamlet sees death physically and it changes Hamlet's views on death.
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