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… To Race Gender And The Environment? This book, though written in Victorian times, is still a quite modern type of story, as it can easily be adapted for modern times, for example, Instead of an expedition to a plateau it could be an expedition…

… the earlier text to say something new? Answer the question in relation to the two prescribed texts that you have studied." The author Tom Stoppard of "Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead" has re-contextualised parts of the play "Hamlet" by William…

… the themes of friendship between men, jealousy, betrayal, and death are ever-present. In Act 1, Brutus is feeling betrayed by Caesar's success. Although he loves Caesar, he wants to get supporters, conspire against him, and eventually kill him. He…

… The writer, William Shakespeare, Had not even an inkling that this play (and many of his other works) would have such and impact on writers all over the world. Romeo & Juliet has been interpreted many times and many ways. There are two popular…

… of the values and attitudes of nineteenth century England. It is a novel of social realism in the sense that it illustrates the lifestyles of most people in the Victorian era. Dickens uses the distinctive traits of characters, comical exaggeration of…

… closest to Hamlet, Gertrude, his mother and Ophelia, his lover, are victims. The tragedy of Hamlet portrays many deaths and sorrows, but it is the women who suffer most, as they are treated like instruments to be used by the male characters to achieve…

… main film interpretations of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" are Zeffirelli's, made in 1968, and Luhrmann's, made in 1997. Although they use the same original script written by Shakespeare, these two films are very different. Zeffirelli's is set…

… From the start of the play, it can be seen that Juliet and Romeo are going to be subjected to cruel twists of fate, causing their eternal love to result in death. "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life" is one of the very first lines of the…

… the play. His sanity has been questioned for hundreds of years, and my belief is that Hamlet was sane. The play begins with Hamlet grieving over his dead father. He is also troubled by his mother's quick and incestuous remarriage to his uncle, and the…

… and the maiden Cressida is only one of the two major plot lines in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. However, the actions of Troilus and Cressida seem more poignant because they deal closely with the concept of human values and virtues. Indeed, it…