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As the question asked states ‘to what extent are the experiences and attitudes of Yang Digong and Li Zucui typical of life in China’, I feel it is wrong to…

William Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ is set in a province called Illyria on the coast of Italy. The play is about a brother and sister, Sebastian and Viola, who are separated…

In Elizabethan England people who were of nobility or rich families often had their marriages arranged. Personal choice was not seen as a matter of importance. The main reasons for…

After performing a scene from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night I received a much greater insight into some of the characters in the play. I played the character of Sir Toby Belch…

From the very first line ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ Shakespeare tells us that Twelfth Night is going to be a play almost entirely centred around…

‘Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness’, Viola breathes futile sighs, without knowing what to do. It is an irony: To solve a problem, she disguised as a eunuch =…

Although Olivia and Viola possess a number of qualities which are not just different, but in complete opposition with one another other, they do in fact have a great deal…

The basic framework is about Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Fabian and Maria playing a trick on Malvolio. They decide to write a letter that Malvolio would think was from Olivia…

At the beginning of the novel Silas says, “there’s no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent”. At the…

Through the first, third, and fifth poems of the Wasteland in Eliot’s collection, Eliot is able to create and achieve immense dramatic images and scenes that provide us with the…

The sound of the triumphant St. George Band bellows through the corridor. The source is the office at the end. As I walk up to the door and just about…

For this assignment I choose to read “Roots”, a novel by Alex Haley. This novel explores six generations of black African Americans. Roots begins with a birth in an African…

Prior to this scene Shakespeare had revealed a very different side to the character of Portia. The audience to this point have come to recognize her as a woman filled…

The poem “How I Love thee?”, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning breaks the stereotypical view of women in this famous poem. Which explores a woman who shares her passion for…

This essay is to put across the point that in this Shakespearian play Shylock, and Jews in general too, are regarded as evil. It is the medieval myth of the…

One of the central themes of the play is that of justice, the right to proper and fair treatment for individuals, these scenes seem to be the same in a…

The Merchant of Venice was written in 1599 by William Shakespeare, The impact of contemporary Elizabethan was clearly shown in the play, although it is set in Venice. The play…

Love is one the ways of showing emotional feelings to another person; it is the thing that makes us human. It is about passion, romance, commitment and loyalty. But love…

Not many people know what a sonnet is. It is actually a special form of poem; it contains fourteen lines and a Volta. It is designed to have a tight…

There are various types of love, when we talk about the term ‘Love’ many terms and phrases come in to our mind. The various types of love that exist are,…