This year i studied Hamlet with my classmates, i am liked a lot this book, above all because it is written in a theatrical form, to my opinion the text is more flow. I m very fascinate to the story and how Shakespeare had described her.

Hamlet

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.

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.

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.

Joan of Arc 8 March

Joan of Arc is a French heroine and Roman Catholic saint, she lived in France from 1412 to 1431.

She was born in 1412 Domremy, France. Born in obscurity to a peasant family, she travelled to the uncrowned Dauphin of France, advising him to reclaim his French throne and defeat the English. Legend says that she was born to auspicious signs held to be a forecast of national triumph. However, what is more certain is that her family were poor and her region had suffered from the long conflict between England and France. For her exploits and leadership, Joan of Arc and her family were granted noble status. She has also won the hearts of the French soldiers who looked up to Joan as an almost mythical leader. However a year later Joan was captured by the Burgundian forces at Compiegne and sold to the English. The English and members of the French clergy decided to put her on trial for witchcraft. In many ways, it was a show trial with the result cleverly orchestrated. The trial was a very testing experience for Joan. Initially, the trial was held in public, but her responses were much sharper than her prosecutors expected. Her answers stood a challenge to the authority of the church; Joan of Arc stated how. Joan of Arc achieved a remarkable achievement in her short life of 19 years. In particular, she embodied religious devotion with great bravery and humility, her life helped change the course of French history. She died in 1931, she was sentenced to burn at the stake.

How men became knights in Middle Ages

Becoming a knight was a tradition that changed over the centuries of the middle ages and by around the sixteenth century, with the advent of gunpowder and firearms, had pretty much become just a symbolic title. But there was a commonly accepted normal route that a boy could take in his quest to become a knight during the height of the Middle Ages when knighthood was important.
The first requirement for a boy to become a knight was the requirement of his heritage. Generally, only boys born to certain men were allowed the opportunity to become a knight.Contrary to popular belief, the king did not usually train boys to become knights. This was the responsibility of the king’s lords, barons and knights. Each of these men held stations, titles, lands and manors of his own. 
The ceremony of becoming a knight was something that could often last several days and could include fasting or a Vigil where the knight would engage in prayer and contemplation for a day and a night or longer. Then there would often be elaborate feasts and hardy discussions with lords and knights about chivalry, courage, religion, and the nature of being a knight. During the actual knighting ceremony the knight would swear allegiance to God and to his lord and he would receive presents such as a sword, a pair of spurs, armor, and a cloak. At the end of the ceremony the king would tap the squire on the shoulders with the flat of a sword blade and he would become a knight.

Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, Suffok, is the site of two 6th- and 7th-century cemeteries.One contained an undisturbed ship burial, including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts, most of which are now in the British Museum in London. Sutton Hoo is of primary importance because it sheds light on a period of English history that is on the margin between myth, legend, and historical documentation.The ship-burial, probably dating from the early 7th century and excavated in 1939, is one of the most magnificent archaeological finds in England for its size and completeness, far-reaching connections, the quality and beauty of its contents.The most significant artefacts from the ship-burial, displayed in the British Museum, are those found in the burial chamber, including a suite of metalwork dress fittings in gold and gems, a ceremonial helmet, shield and sword, a lyre, and many pieces of silver plate from Byzantinum. The ship-burial has, from the time of its discovery, prompted comparisons with the world described in the heroic Old English poem Beowulf, which is set in southern Sweden,especially at Vendel. Of the two grave fields found at Sutton Hoo, one had long been known to exist because it consists of a group of approximately 20 earthen burial mounds  that rise slightly above the horizon of the hill-spur when viewed from the opposite bank. The other, called here the "new" burial ground, is situated on a second hill-spur close to the present Exhibition Hall, about 500 m upstream of the first.The site has a visitor centre, with many original and replica artefacts and a reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, and the burial field can be toured in the summer months and at weekends and school holidays year-round.