... she was drunk. In the Taming of the Shrew Bianca loves Petruchio from the beginning of the movie, but in Ten Things I Hate About You Patrick has to fight for her love as she first likes Joey, a model in her class. Other minor differences include that there is no wager in the end of ... the movie to see which wife was the most loyal to her husband and there was no major speech by Kat in the end of Ten Things I Hate About You. ... Bianca is also the girl that everyone wants to go out with in both movies. Both movies also express themes that deal with everyday issues such as true love, re...

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... than a spinster." The vengeful Iago is able to amplify his qualities of unexplainable envy towards the flawed Othello, and presents the audience with a disturbing masterpiece of pure loathing. "I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets 'Has done my office." Iago is able to amplify and acknowledge his own jealousy by creating rumours that ... towards women and the sacredness of marriage, and also the disturbing depth of his jealousy. Iago's lust for jealousy becomes contagious and his canvas of hate grows. Iago is a manipulative character who is fuelled by a distur...

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... poem was further imitated from Luigi da Porto's version in 1525 of a story by Masuccio Salernitano. Though 'Romeo and Juliet' is displayed as a romantic love story, this play is classified as a tragedy. 'Romeo and Juliet' can be considered as a tragedy because the protagonists of the play - the two star ... Juliet during lines 91-105. These fourteen lines in question fit together to form a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. The sonnet is most often associated with love therefore is used to present the emotion of their first meeting. Romeo takes the lead with the first quatrain, Juli...

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... 43 and 18, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare respectively, through a range of metaphors, alliteration and repetition. While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion ... , unlike nature that experiences "Rough winds." In both the sonnets, different elements of life have been approached to demonstrate the multifaceted comparisons that can be ma...

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... savagery. Although Shakespeare's take on the tragedy is undoubtedly gory too, it is greatly refined in that it is poetic and full of emotions like love, hate, honesty, betrayal and revenge, not to mention thought-provoking themes dealing with the meaning of life, death, as well as the existence of God ... atmosphere of prejudice towards the seemingly misplaced Moor in Venetian society, as well as the jealousy and distrust that comes to distance Othello from his love and eventually destroy him and all those around him. Like Hamlet, albeit to a much lesser degree, Othello exists as a very ...

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... What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakespeare's works; emotion, family, love and death. The first appearance of the title in its context is on the savage reservation where John lives. When ... cheek, her gait, her voice - (144), John is marveled at the qualities in Lenina not even thought of by the men of her society. Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" When enraged with Popé at the thought ... eac...

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... in his day. Over the years, there have been several adaptations both on stage and in film of Shakespearean works. His plays have inspired successful Hollywood films such "10 Things I Hate About You," based on "The Taming of the Shrew." The Indian film industry has drawn heavily on Shakespeare as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost ... need of a muse. Although it has been said that his plots were repetitive and they are viewed as cliched and overdone from today's standpoint, the fact remains that these very stories are what draw audiences time after time. A pioneer...

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... play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1.32-35) to initiate a family feud, which would subsequently prevent George of Clarence from being a potential successor to ... contains 14 lines; it originated mainly in Italy. Initially, the sonnet structure followed a strict rhyme scheme and the main theme of a sonnet was love. However, the sonnet evolved under the influence of different writers such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser...

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... several contemporary social issues non existent in "Romeo and Juliet's" original context. However, Luhrman's film conveys the values embodied in the play and the impossible love, hate and sorrow that are the essence of Shakespeare's tragedy. Baz Luhrman's "Romeo and Juliet" is set in a modern city; a striking contrast to the ... very sincerely. They appear as genuine, passionate lovers in a world of violence and hatred without reason. Romeo and Juliet seem alive. Their love seems real. Lord Capulet is characterized as being highly abusive and unreasonable. When Juliet refuses to marry P...

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... and this reflects the beliefs of Shakespearian audiences. I have taken a different approach in depicting my "star -crossed" lovers as I wanted the role of love to take a second stance to action and special effects. The two main characters met in an incidental situation where Trish requires Hans's help and there is ... in the two societies. "Romeo and Juliet" opens with the prologue revealing the fate of the star-crossed lovers and the nature behind their forbidden love. This entices the audience to become captured in the journey of these characters. I wanted to take a different approach i...

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Two of Shakespeare's greatest and well known works are A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. In the two stories, there are many paralleled similarities that are very noticeable, and some that aren't as noticeable. First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia ... , and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia love until the love spell with put upon him. In Romeo and Juliet, their two families are ... long time rivals, so naturally they have a ...

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... opening scene. The ageing King Lear with no wife, no son and only three daughters intends to divide his kingdom in accordance with the daughter that can profess her love the most winning the larger amount of land. Ironically though, King Lear has already divided the land into three parts on a map, which he uses as a ... . The daughters feel he is vain, for he talks to himself as the royal 'we,' shallow and even insecure, as no daughter should have to declare there love in order to gain there fathers attention and respect. Lear is an irresponsible father as through competitiveness he divid...

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... domestic rather than a social tragedy. According to Eyre's reading of the play, it is Lear's failure as a father - his failure to understand and bestow the love that as a father he was responsible for giving, which ultimately leads to disaster. When Lear banishes Cordelia saying, "Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and ... from this forever" (Act 1 Scene 1), he is denying his responsibility to as a father offer unconditional love to his daughter. Lear is unable to give selfless love to his family and his unable to understand love as something independent from wealth and ...

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... Shakespeare, Hamlet stands out as a paradigm of human fault through the focus on the inability to control human emotion. The power of love can be healing but can also be used as a sense of noble revenge. The love of hate also dissolves family lines and leads to incestuous fornication. Throughout the play Shakespeare also demonstrates the fragility of women and characteristics of women ... a feminine flight of fancy. Though his plan is ultimately futile, this inheritance of supposed female qualities is later marked on poor Ophelia. Hamlet's treatment of his beloved undermines her own lov...

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... appreciate the lighthearted tone and satirical notes. Fusing reality with imagination, he allows the play to "stretch far beyond the limits of the real world of everyday experience" (283). Several stories are taking place throughout, each of which occuring during a single summer night in a magical forest outside Athens. Fairies can be seen playing pranks on lovesick mortals, earnest youths enduring ... comical romantic confusion, and lovers finding understanding to the true meaning of love. Shakespeare uses the genuine admiration present between the Duke and Queen in contrast to the fals...

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... jealousy and mistrust. Geoffrey Sax's representation of "Othello," a film directed in 2001 focuses on the role of women after the feminist movement, being set in modern London fuelled by racial hate. The interpretation of Othello through film by Oliver Parker in 1995, conjugates the theme of homosexuality, reflective of his own context in the late 20th century, despite being set in ... of Protestants in this time. Iago's constant conversations with Othello often elucidates his feelings towards the moor, exclaiming that 'I am your's forever,' while his consistent talks of love ( &ap...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a classic love story about two young would-be couples, and an aspiring actor named Bottom who end up being caught in the middle of a lovers quarrel between Oberon, the king of the ... , his Queen. They all find themselves tangled in a web of chaos, administered by Oberon and his sidekick Puck. The chaotic love story ensues, as Puck administers a secret love potion that causes the lovers to switch partners as if they have fallen in love at first sight. William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is purely mag...

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... modern women. .... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such ... Iago that she is under a spell and is deceiving her father. When her fiancé is accused of bewitching her, she immediately defends her love for him. "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due ... Although she is "...

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... modern women. .... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such ... Iago that she is under a spell and is deceiving her father. When her fiancé is accused of bewitching her, she immediately defends her love for him. "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due ... Although she is "...

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... far removed from Shakespeare's time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century b.c. But the parallel stories of Lear's and Gloucester's sufferings at the hands of their own children reflect anxieties that would have been close to home for Shakespeare's audience ... far removed from Shakespeare's time as the setting of any of his other plays, dramatizing events from the eighth century b.c. But the parallel stories of Lear's and Gloucester's sufferings at the hands of their own children reflect anxieties that would have been close to home for Shakes...

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... with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life". This descriptive proposal leaves imagery of both intimacy and penetration suggesting the physical act of love. So after narrating pleasant compliments, then horrific destruction it is obvious that the man is attempting to disorientate the woman, perhaps so as she ... would tend to look for intimacy with him for consolation. Marvell successfully recreates the myth of love as a symbol of eternal affection in the first part of "To His Coy Mistress". The narrator in this stanza proves to be the typical ... response to this world of eternit...

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William Shakespeare opens his sonnet, "Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes," with a paradoxical comparison of his lack of social good fortune with his self-worth and love of his subject, a woman. Shakespeare uses the argument of good fortune in opposition to self-worth to allude to the tone of the author's state of misfortune and loneliness, which ... (line 7)" which is a clear-cut piece of evidence of his jealous tendencies towards other men's belongings. In this case, being the love of a woman, which Shakespeare treasures as wealth, "For thy sweet love remembered such w...

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... essential to the plots of Twelfth Night, and Midsummer Nights Dream. In each of these instances, the characters inability to express emotions leads to folly. Love, loss, joy, anger, and depression have all met muted silence in the comedies of Shakespeare. 7 Translating this fact to pertain to Shakespearean dramas ... a major theme in Coriolanus. Nature versus nurture is an issue tied up in unspoken emotion, and an inability for Volumnia to express a healthy love for her son is often cited as the cause for this tragedy. One interpretation for Volumnia's character is that she is emotionally...

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... The dramatic technique of elements of plot is used in the play As You Like It, to convey the idea of identity and the importance of love. The changeability of identity is a typical idea of comedy conveyed in As You Like It through the dramatic technique of plot. In a typical ... and social roles for these characters, which provides comedy for the viewers, but also relates to the more serious issues regarding society, which is love, leading to a stable basis for society. Another example of plot in the play is when the character Hymen is introduced to the audience. ... Roman god of marri...

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... sternly warns him not to break the virgin-knot before the wedding had been officialised. We realise that this marriage is more than one of mutual love and support; it is not only a new political alliance, but also an exchange of patriarchal power. She now belongs to another man who ... a recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays; in A Midsummer Night's Dream, we see Helena make known her love for Demetrius, which of itself is a measure executed almost exclusively by men. Whilst she is proclaiming her love, albeit in an unfashionable manner, Demetrius' terse response is that she ought take ...

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