Far from the world of evil and corrupt court, is the world of the forest. It is a world o true reality where there is no room for flattery. Here people live in harmony with nature and resolve all their conflicts. […]
Shakespeare shows the grim reality of politics in ‘Julius Caesar’. Replete with conspiracies and conflicts, we see how appearance and reality are ambiguous. […]
Shakespeare combines delightful repartee and the conventional comic path to investigate love in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Sometimes, it is not a central authority or a powerful person that creates a block in a relationship. Rather it is the pride of the characters themselves that creates this block. […]
‘The Tempest’ is rich with the sense of the ongoing bounty of life, but also well aware of the sadness of loss and the inevitability of death, and also of the mystery of what lies beyond this life. […]
Unlike Caliban, Ariel brings the elements of harmony and forgiveness in ‘The Tempest’. He makes Prospero take the nobler action of mercy. […]
The interactions between Prospero and Caliban in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ tells us a lot about human relationships. There is mutual hatred along with a heavy dependency for the sake of survival on the island. […]
Even though Shylock agrees to lend money to Antonio, they are not particularly friends. Shylock hates Antonio and thinks Antonio also hates him for the same reasons. […]
Shylock is a Jewish character in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’, whose Jewish characteristics are bold but perhaps derived from people’s conceptions, not reality. Even though he is not the hero, he is the most complex character in the play and a core part of it. […]
Ophelia is the obedient daughter and loving partner of Hamlet, who is supposed to marry him. However, Hamlet’s aggression and behavior drives her to madness and she drowns. […]
Hamlet believes Gertrude and Claudius get married merely for lust and accuses his mother of that until she gets deeply affected. Gertrude feels guilt and regret, which Hamlet aims at from the beginning. […]
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