As a freshman in high school, I took Brit Lit this year. We read A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies over the summer, and I absolutely could not stand (or understand) ATTC, and LOTF was not much better. We started off the year with Beowulf, which was decent but a little to predictable for my ...
Some of the themes that appear quickly are madness, family, vengence, and women's place in society. Some of these have appeared in the other plays we have read. Madness in both King Lear and Macbeth. Family in King Lear and vengeance in Macbeth. Women's roles were touched on in King Lear, but never ...
If a vote were to be held by people with reasonable taste in literature, Hamlet would probably be chosen as the greatest work ever written. I am not sure that I would go quite that far, but I strongly feel that it is Shakespeare's greatest play and one of the greatest books ever written.Hamlet is o...
Read in September, 2011, read count: 9+ Columbine for foolishness, violets for fidelity, and rue for adultery, everlasting suffering and was the major cause of abortion in its day, which is also why it was tied in with adultery. Busy plant that rue! Pansy for thoughts, rosemary means to remember ...
It's said that someone once read this, and said, "I don't see what the fuss is about, it's just a bunch of quotes strung together." That has advantages and disadvantages in reading. The more you're familiar with Elizabethan language, the better you can comprehend and appreciate the plays. But someti...
Shakespeare! The man himself! The best writer ever, or else that dude you had to read in high school and he didn't make any sense.Did you know he didn't make any sense at the time either? I mean, he made more sense, but people didn't say shit like "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" in con...
Why do we love Hamlet so much? Certainly he is Shakespeare's single most-perfect creation, and among the ranks of Falstaff, Iago, Macbeth, as the Bard's most-memorable creatures. But why do we love him so much? It's kind of an odd question, "We love him because he's Hamlet!" is the answer I guess, b...
I want the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism edition of this--sadly, some person had decided to merge that volume with 753 other editions of Hamlet texts, and i can't seem to get them separated...
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