... all time. His plays have been told and taught for centuries and teach moral lessons through its misfortunes. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Macbeth are all tragedies of either love or loss and demonstrate the imperfection of human desires. One of William Shakespeare's most popular works is Romeo and ... Iago's villainy ways he manages to turn Othello and Desdemona's pure and true love against them and lead(s) them to their gloomy deaths. In Macbeth, Shakespeare tells a story of how greed and superstition can lead to destruction and despair. The play starts off with three ol...

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... to hate, to feel. As such, Shakespeare's works are first taught at a high school level, and usually the tragedies such as Hamlet and Macbeth are introduced. However, Shakespeare's tragedies contain themes that may not be appropriate for a high school audience, including death, and psychological issues. Therefore it ... act, and ill tempered. Because he was unable to recognize his weaknesses, his and the lives of those around him were lost. Similarly, Macbeth's ambition to become king eventually leads to his demise. This is not a good moral to teach at a high school level because it crea...

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... divorce himself from societal concerns (Dall, 2000). This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters such as Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Hamlet, as according to Dall (2000): "Through Gertrude's marriage to Hamlet's uncle and also through Lady Macbeth's unbridled political ambition, Shakespeare dramatizes real political concerns that evolved from and during the reign of Elizabeth Tudor." Alongside ... all male casts to be successful and accepted by society on the Shakespearian stage. For example, Shakespeare cleverly outlined the masculine qualities needed to portray an ambi...

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... is about a man who believes that his wife is unfaithful to him. This jealousy finally turns into rage and he kills her. After Othello, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, a tragedy of ambition (Best). This is about Macbeth and his wife, who believe that they can kill the King of Scotland and quietly take the throne. They find, however, that this murder leads to other ... murders and they are consumed with guilt. Macbeth would have been very controversial if it had been any other play writes, but Shakespeare at this time could write whatever he wanted. "He was thought of as the Lord ... ...

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... Hamlet, as she is a girl who becomes mad due to her situation and surroundings. Madness in itself is a prominent theme in many Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. These women also create a sub-tragedy to the larger scale tragedy occurring in these plays, creating a tragedy within a tragedy. The stock character of the innocent female victim is one in ... ...

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... entitled "The Red Curtain". However La Boheme marks the final piece of work using this style of filmmaking. "I'm through with Romeo and Juliet and boy meets girl, and on to Macbeth and man kills beast." (Baz Luhrmann on finishing with the Red Curtain production style). The Red Curtain Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain trilogy showcases an original style of film making totally ... ...

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... him. This provides a sense of disorientation. The audience does not know where this scene is leading, something unusual for a Shakespeare play. For example, works such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth open to introductions or to scenes in which the principal character is directly involved. This is very different for Hamlet, and this perhaps reflects the character of Hamlet himself, and ... ...

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