Romeo is the image of a desperate romantic, a brave man who knows how to love.
Juliet is the main female image of the play. She is still very young, but she is already quite intelligent and decent. The girl does not show disobedience towards her parents. So it can be called a good daughter. Juliet's teacher was a nurse, as was customary in noble families. The nurse is strongly attached to the pupil and therefore keeps her secret of love to Romeo.
Having met Romeo at the masquerade, the girl is transformed, becomes more determined. At the beginning of the work it could be called just a sweet child. But having fallen in love with Romeo, Juliet becomes a fighter for her happiness. She can no longer make the decision of her parents to marry her to a rich, but absolutely not a nice person to her. Girl against the wishes of her parents and agrees to the plan brother Lorenzo, how to avoid the hated marriage and become closer to Romeo.
Juliet had never thought about the cause of their feud before she met Romeo, but now she began to ask questions. She understands that it is absolutely pointless to hate someone just because he's a Montague. What's in a name? Because it is not part of the essence of her beloved Romeo.
The heroine is only 14 years old, but having experienced love, she becomes a wise woman. Her feelings were a little shaken only once when she learned that her brother Tybalt had died at the hands of Romeo. But having penetrated into the circumstances of the case, the girl again takes the side of her beloved. And even blames himself for a moment's infidelity. Before Romeo is forced to leave the country, Juliet promises to be faithful to him.
While the main character is in exile, Juliet trying to marry Paris. To avoid remarriage, the heroine takes the help of brother Lorenzo. The priest took a sleeping pill girl, drunk which she seems lifeless. Relatives carry her to the crypt, where her Romeo arrives. Unfortunately, he does not have time to letter to his brother Lorenzo and doesn't know that Juliet was just asleep. The hero does not want to live without his beloved and drinks poison. When the girl wakes up, sees the body beside her Romeo. In horror she takes a fateful decision – he thrusts the dagger into himself.
The image of Juliet in the play is dynamic: from a carefree naive girl, she turns into a brave woman who is true to her feelings.
The main character became the personification of sincere love. Juliet and Romeo were supposed to be enemies, but they realized how stupid their clan feud was. The characters were victims of unjustified human hatred, and by example showed what she can bring.
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Analyse the images of Hamlet and Claudius in “Hamlet” by W. Shakespeare.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is called home on account of his father’s death. Hamlet is suicidal, cynical, introspective, intelligent, and crafty. He struggles to make decisions, yet acts rashly. Despite overwhelming evidence that his father has been murdered by his uncle, the new king, Hamlet hesitates to carry out his revenge, seeking further confirmation of the new king’s guilt. Spurred on by his mother’s death and his own impending death, Hamlet finally kills Claudius.
Hamlet Character Analysis: When a normal person becomes mentally unstable, he harms himself and perhaps those closest to him. When a prince becomes emotionally unstable, he harms an entire kingdom. Hamlet’s reckless behavior causes the death of Polonius in Act III, the suicide of Ophelia in Act IV, and with an assist from Claudius’ murder of Hamlet’s father, the destruction of the royal family in Act V. The turmoil in Denmark is an outward manifestation of Hamlet’s inner conflict and inability to act to restore the sanctity of the throne.
Claudius: Hamlet’s uncle and murderer of Hamlet’s father–Claudius is a cunning politician whose lust for power and the queen set the play’s tragic acts in motion. We see Claudius’ human side in the love he bears for his wife and his acknowledgment of wrong-doing as he attempts to pray, but his unwillingness to give up those things he gains from his treachery speaks to his rotten character. Hamlet frequently contrasts Claudius, the smooth-talking, corrupt politician to the fierce, honorable, warrior king he unlawfully replaces.
What themes are explored in Lord Byron’s poetry? Don Juan as a satiric epic poem. What did Byron criticize? Why did Byron name Don Juan as an epic poem? (the main idea, themes, lyrical digressions, the main characters, artistic style).
Byron names his long satirical poem "Don Juan" to represent its title character. He takes the satire even farther when he insists that readers pronounce the second word as "Joo-an" instead of the Spanish "wuan." Byron does this to make fun of the cultural prejudice that English people had for all things non-English back in the day. He points out the absurdity of insisting that English things are "good" by making the name "Juan" sound ridiculous.
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Readers during Byron's time would have been familiar with the character Don Juan from earlier works like Molière's 1665 play Don Juan. In earlier versions Don Juan is a middle-aged man who runs around seducing women. Byron messes with our gender expectations by making Juan young and making him the passive object of women's sexual advances. This reversal is all part of his larger effort to turn European culture on its head by using satire.Byron's long, digressive, wildly funny, outrageously rhymed Don Juan is a wonderful satire of the epic poem, of the legend of Don Juan, and of the mores of Byron's own times. It is written throughout in octava rima, an 8-line stanza that, in English, given the paucity of rhymes, is inevitably humourous. Byron uses the structure variously, often giving us a clinching final couplet that reflects bathetically back on what has gone before.
Inverting the legend of Don Juan, the arrogant, rakish, Lothario who ends up dragged to Hell, Byron's 'hero' is a rather passive young man, girlishly beautiful rather than handsome at the start, who falls in love with the various women he meets. Taking issue with the epic martial heroes of Homer and Virgil, this is more akin to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, though wider-ranging and more intentionally scurrilous.
Juan travels from his native Spain to the Greek islands via a shipwreck (during which his tutor gets eaten by the hungry sailors!), is sold at the slave market in Constantinople and enters the seraglio dressed up as a girl for the pleasure of the sultan's fourth wife... He goes on to fight with the Russian army before being taken to the court of Catherine the Great and, finally, on to London where he is embroiled in high aristocratic society and meets a ghostly friar in a Gothic ruin (of course!).
In between the story are Byron's ruminations on everything: from a tongue-in-cheek assessment of erotic poetry ('Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him | Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample | Catullus hardly has a decent poem | I don't think Sappho's ode a good example') to scathing views on marriage and fidelity, on gender and masculinity, and on the younger Romantics (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey) for whom Byron generally had little time.
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Written in stages between 1818 and 1824, this remains unfinished at Byron's death. Anyone only knowing the lyrical Byron ('She Walks in Beauty', 'So We'll Go No More A-Roving') or the 'Turkish' tales like 'The Giaour', will meet here the brilliant, mercurial, Byron of the letters.
Discuss the parallels between Dorian’s story and the Faust legend. Does Dorian make a pact with the devil? Compare and contrast two masterpieces “Tragedy of Doctor Faustus” and “Portrait of Dorian Gray”.
Faust was a successful scholar in Germany who was not satisfied with the knowledge and worldy goods he had. That made him make a deal with the deal, and he traded his soul for boundless knowledge and endless materialistic objects. In exchange for all this, Faust is to go to hell after his life in the world was over. The Faust Legend is directly related to The Picture of Dorian Gray. The storyline and the psychological basis of this book is very similar to the legend and seems like Dorian Gray was inspired by the ancient tale. Dorian Gray, in the beginning of the novel, was a very handsome innocent young man who was naïve and fair. Two men were fascinated by his aura. They were Basil and Lord Henry. Basil was a renounced painter who fell under the spell of Dorian Gray. He was absolutely charmed by him and throughout the novel it is shown that he worshipped Dorian. Lord Henry, on the other hand, was all well spellbound by Dorian. But, Lord Henry thought of Dorian as an interesting topic of observation and influenced Dorian in bad ways. Like Faust, Dorian knew he had a lot in the materialistic world. He was handsome, rich, and educated. Unlike Faust, who was craving knowledge, Dorian wanted eternal beauty and youth. It is not really clear in the book how this transaction worked, but a painting of Dorian Gray aged and showed Dorian’s corrupt spirit while Dorian stayed young. Dorian began to notice that his painting aged when he broke the heart of a young girl, Sibyl. Dorian was fascinated by the idea of Hedonism, to live life only through pleasure. His road to corruption started by the suicide of Sibyl Vane. From then on, his flawless life and reputation began to spiral. Dorian’s sins began to become horrid and everytime a sin was committed, his picture started to look even more ghastly. I am not sure why his hunger for sin and corrupting began. His aging painting may have sparked it, but it is still confusing how his mind works, and what urges him to all this gruesome deeds. It makes me wonder, did the devil really make him do it? Or did Dorian let the devil inside of him through greed and youth? What motivation urged him to start impacting on young men, killing them and even ruining their reputation? Dorian Gray is still quite a mystery to me. At the end of the novel, did Dorian realize of his sins or did he kill himself by accident? What beauty and greed does to a man. Dorian’s fatal flaw was the fear of death and old age.
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