Youth Love And Women In The Tempest By William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, utilized humor and irony as he developed specific language for his plays, thereby influencing literature forever. “Shakespeare became popular in the eighteenth century” (Epstein 8). He was the best all around. “Shakespeare was a classic” (8). William Shakespeare is a very known and popular man that has many works, techniques and ways.

With the Lovers we see Hermia and Lysander in love but unable to marry, Demetrius infatuated with Hermia and Helena besotted with Demetrius... ... middle of paper ... ... his plays stimulating and applicable to their life styles. Shakespeare demonstrates the quote "the course of true love never did run smooth" very well in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". However, rather ironically in this particular play, all ends well. It is to this day almost seen as an error to leave a play with problems so Puck is right to say "Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue we will make amends ere long…Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends". There is comfort in the knowledge that all damage has been restored.

The many love relationships in As You Like It are delightful in their romanticism and the humor that Shakespeare has dashed into each of them, enhancing the happy nature of the play. Various situations of love are explored -- true love at first sight, unrequited love, even a hint of homosexuality in Orlando's attraction to Ganymede and Phebe's falling for Ganymede, who is really a woman. Their contrasting variety causes them to complement one another in the play's theme of love and the foolish things it makes people do, making As You Like It both entertaining and romantic.

This story is one off the greatest love stories ever written, although some one might argue that it possibly also has more hate than any other average story as well as love, it is the quote "loving hate" that the play revolves around, the concept of hate is always close when love is apparent. The play itself has indured for years, and many recent films and novels have been based on the Shakespeare version proving that one of the factors that make it such a brilliant piece of writing is its power to still be relevant today, a modern audience can, more than not, relate to the love and relationships in the play. Finally the conclusion of the story is that in the love had beaten hate at the end, even though a violent sacrifice had to made, the biggestv sacrifice proves the r + j true love.

At the beginning, Claudio simply wishes to marry Hero based on her beauty, with the thought of wealth and power thrown in on the side. He has not acknowledged the fact that Hero is a person aside from her beauty and position. At the end, Hero perhaps sees Claudio's inner beauty as well throughout all the turmoil. Beatrice and Benedick, though always subconsciously aware of each other's inner beauty, are made aware in a concrete sense when the end comes upon them. They began to understand the game they have been playing and see each other for who they are and as a result love each other even more.

Hamlet demonically chases justice for his father’s death. He uses his recent mode and sulking to his advantage, for his mother and Claudius already believe he is melancholic. As shown when Hamlet is conversing wit... ... middle of paper ... .... Fallon, Robert Thomas. A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare / Robert Thomas Fallon.Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2001.

William Shakespeare lived a fascinating life during which he built up a good influential reputation. Most of his life was focused on his playwriting and acting career and his writings continue to be prominent even in today's culture. People wonder about his journey to becoming a playwright and what inspired him. It intrigues people how a man with only a simple grammar school education was able to write beautiful pieces. He wrote various plays and poems and is considered to be one of the most renowned writers of all time.

In the play Twelfth Night Shakespeare states “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” (Twelfth Night II.5.154). Shakespeare influenced every generation of writers since his death, and he continues to have an enormous impact on contemporary plays, movies, and poems. His plays have plots with many twists and turns providing an excellent exercise in logic. William Shakespeare is known worldwide because he is the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, he influenced the world of literature, his plots were unoriginal, and because of his achievements he is now taught at school. To begin, Shakespeare is a well-known playwright and a tremendous poet.

In Williams’ plays there is longer satisfaction in the end which keeps the comedy along with the tragedy. In “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Meg locks up Brick’s liquor and urges him to get her pregnant so that Big Daddy can die knowing that the land is going to his favorite son and that he has a grandkid on the way. This is a comedic ending because everyone is satisfied with what is to come and though there is tragedy, the comedy outshines it. “A Streetcar Named Desire” ends with tragedy because Stanley has to live with the guilt of causing Blanche to go insane and get sent to the mental hospital. Tragedy is best displayed in Tennessee Williams’ plays through the situations he puts his characters in and their dialogue.

Hamlet's Relationships with Women in Hamlet by William Shakespeare When reading Hamlet it becomes clear right from the beginning that Hamlet has a deep relationship with his mother, Gertrude, because he loves and respects her so much. In the opening scene we can see Hamlet and Gertrude engaged in tender, loving behaviour. But as the play develops we see this relationship suffer some great dents. Gertrude?s role in Hamlet is to show us how Hamlets insanity develops, her actions are a big part of what drives Hamlet mad. Because when she marries his uncle so soon after his fathers death Hamlet feels she is acting in such a betraying way that he is almost incapable of forgiving her.